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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/1088
Title	[?] to Lord Dartmouth, letter not signed nor dated
Date	1774
Description	"The Kings stores should not be kept in the middle of a large town and surrounded with wooden buildings", considers the stores could be kept very securely on the Governor's Island and a few batteries on said Island would most effectually command the navigation of New York Harbour
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