Letter to Admiral Hugh Pigot
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Title
Letter to Admiral Hugh Pigot
Collection
Thomas Addis Emmet collection
General Leslie's Letterbook
Names
Leslie, Alexander, approximately 1740-1794 (Author)
Pigot, Hugh (Addressee)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1782-08-25
Place: Charles Town, S.C.
Library Location
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Shelf locator: MssCol 927
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Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Content: 2 pp. and 1 leaf with endorsement. 4o
Abstract
The captain of a British privateer observed on the log-book of a captured American letter of marque that a French fleet had been seen on the coast Aug. 1; he put into this port to communicate the intelligence; incloses copy of extract from the log-book; the master added that there were troops on board; they steered towards New York, and were then about a degree north of the Capes of Virginia. Copy.
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Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11868616
Archives ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 15638
Archives EAD ID: 279843
Archives Components ID: 4890
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 77702380-6a3e-0139-984c-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to Admiral Hugh Pigot" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1782. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/77702380-6a3e-0139-984c-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1782). Letter to Admiral Hugh Pigot Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/77702380-6a3e-0139-984c-0242ac110002
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Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to Admiral Hugh Pigot" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/77702380-6a3e-0139-984c-0242ac110002
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