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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
Doc Ref No	D(W)1778/II/509
Title	Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Howard
Date	[1772]
Description	State of title to the 10,000 acres on Connecticut River in the County of Cumberland, "this title is founded on a peremtory mandamus from the King, recommended by the Board of Trade, and advised by the Privy Council Enclosures, 3 Feb1772, Boston, copy of Governor Hutchinson's letters to Governor William Tryon, certified by William Tryon Narrative of Lieutenant Colonel Howard's application to Governor Tryon for a grant of land in New York, upon Lieutenant Colonel Howard's arrival at New York he made application to Governor Tryon to have his Majesty's Order of Council for ten thousand acres of land located near a settled country, with no success he employed a private surveyor who reported a vacant tract near Connecticut River and letters patent were ordered by Governor Tryon to invest him with that property.
Extent	13 pages