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K004 - Records of the Legge family of Sandwell and Patshull, Barons Dartmouth, Earls of Dartmouth
- D(W)1778 - Papers of the Legge Family, Earls of Dartmouth
  - II - American Papers

Located At	Staffordshire Record Office
Level	Item
Alt Ref No	D(W)1778/II/79
Title	The Earl of Moira to Lord Dartmouth, Moira, near Dromore, Ireland, desires him to recommend his petition for a grant of land so that he and others now anxious to settle in America may be enabled to do so.
Date	19 Aug 1765
Description	Enclosures, Earl of Moira and several others, petition to the King, John, Earl of Moira, William Taylor, William Burton, etc, desire 5000 acres each in West Florida in the neighbourhood of the Mississippi, and promise to cultivate thereon the branches of commerce so much needed, but now purchased at an immense expense from foreign nations Pen and ink sketch of the land desired by the Earl of Moira
Extent	5 pages