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K046 - Records of the Congreve family of Congreve and Stretton, p. Penkridge
- 13 - Personal papers
  - 1 - Personal Correspondence
    - 6 - Lt.-Gen. Sir William Congreve, later 1st bart, (1743-1814)

Located At	Staffordshire Record Office
Level	Item
Doc Ref No	D1057/M/F/32/1-4
Title	Letters from Capt. William Congreve to William Congreve of Shrewsbury
Date	1777
Description	Including : letter from Baldwin Leighton, Brunswick, New Jersey giving account of American War with suspicions that rebels helped by French, Apr 1777; funeral of Thomas Congreve, May 1777; presentation of writer to King; thanks for light guns constructed and carried out to America; additional pension Nov. 1777; news of American War, attacks on New York and Rhode Island, Dec. 1777