S. S. Blowers A.L.S., New York, Octo.r 4th 1782 : to Sir William Pepperrell, Wimpole Street, London
1782
MSS l1978.15.152
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Title
S. S. Blowers A.L.S., New York, Octo.r 4th 1782 : to Sir William Pepperrell, Wimpole Street, London
Published
New York (N.Y.) 1782
Description
[4] p. ; 28 cm. (4to)
Call Number
MSS l1978.15.152
Note
"So long as this place is held by the King, I shall be able to live comfortably - when it is evacuated I must scramble with other poor devils for new means of support."
"Pray have our new men well considered the pros and cons of this same evacuation. Are they aware that it will immediately leave to Congress more than six thousand veteran troops to be employed against Canada Nova Scotia, or the West Indies - that it will leave them the most centrical best adapted place for inland trade and foreign commerce on the continent; that it will open the easiest most commodious avenue to Canada and the back country and enable the enemy to contract almost immediately the British powers there to the little territory round Quebec - that it will render it impossible for the British Cruisers to keep in check the growing trade of the Chesapeak and Delaware ...."
"If the expence of keeping it is the principal objection, would it not be better to give up Gibraltar and to abandon Florida, and apply those savings to the maintenance of New York, which commands a very considerable extent of territory and must always afford a market for large importations of British manufactuerers and if made a free port would soon be supplied with every article of American produce which is wanted in Europe or the West Indies."
"In the present temper of Americdan a British merchant may as well think of trading with the Affricans [sic] or East Indians without factories and fortified depots."
Black seal is present.
"Pray have our new men well considered the pros and cons of this same evacuation. Are they aware that it will immediately leave to Congress more than six thousand veteran troops to be employed against Canada Nova Scotia, or the West Indies - that it will leave them the most centrical best adapted place for inland trade and foreign commerce on the continent; that it will open the easiest most commodious avenue to Canada and the back country and enable the enemy to contract almost immediately the British powers there to the little territory round Quebec - that it will render it impossible for the British Cruisers to keep in check the growing trade of the Chesapeak and Delaware ...."
"If the expence of keeping it is the principal objection, would it not be better to give up Gibraltar and to abandon Florida, and apply those savings to the maintenance of New York, which commands a very considerable extent of territory and must always afford a market for large importations of British manufactuerers and if made a free port would soon be supplied with every article of American produce which is wanted in Europe or the West Indies."
"In the present temper of Americdan a British merchant may as well think of trading with the Affricans [sic] or East Indians without factories and fortified depots."
Black seal is present.
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