Ferguson, George, fl1781 (Governor of Tobago)
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'Documents on the loss of Tobago'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 267
Scope and Contents
The volume begins with 'The whole proceedings on the trial of the Hon. Major Henry Fitzroy Stanhope at a court martial...in the month of June 1783, taken in shorthand by Joseph Gurney', printed in 1783 (104 pages). This is followed by manuscript transcriptions of two documents: 'Address of Governor Ferguson to the public relative to the capture of Tobago', 1781 (12 pages), and 'Capitulation of the island of Tobago received from Lieutenant Governor Ferguson', 1781 (8 pages). The rest of the...
Dates:
1781 - 1787
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