Letter to Lt. Donald Campbell, 1762 May 4.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
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Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Librarian/ Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the holder of the copyright, if not the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg.

Preferred citation:

Jeffery Amherst's Letter to Lt.Donald Campbell, 1762 May 4, Manuscript # 1982.7, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Summary

Creator:
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Jeffery Amherst's Letter to Lt.Donald Campbell, 1762 May 4, Manuscript # 1982.7, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Background

Scope and content:

Jeffrey Amherst, New York, to Donald Campbell. Concerns raising 268 recruits from the colony of Virginia for the King's forces. Campbell is chosen to go to Hampton {Va.} on the "Ranger", and from there to Williamsburg to review the recruits. There he is to deliver a letter to Lt. Gov. {Francis} Fauquier. Provides a credit on John Hunter to pay the bounties. Troops are to board the ship immediately f or the return trip to New York.

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 1982.
Physical description:
1 item. ; 34 cm.