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- GLC#
- GLC08202
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 28, 1778
- Author/Creator
- Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785
- Title
- [to the King's Commissioners]
- Place Written
- Whitehall, London, England
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ;
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Responding to a memorial petition from the merchants of South Carolina and Georgia and contemplating a British attack on Georgia. Asks the king's (King George III) commissioners to use their judgment on how much of the memorial to comply with. Marked "duplicate" and "separate" on upper right hand corner of first page and docket. Sackville, 1st Viscount Sackville, was a British soldier and politician who was Secretary of State for America in Lord North's cabinet during the American Revolution.
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