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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/94
Title	Messrs Baynton, Wharton and Morgan to the Reverend George Whitefield, Philadelphia, the desire of the Indians to have traders sent into their country, the cruel treatment shown to those sent, and the loss accruing to the merchants who supplied the goods.
Date	29 Oct 1765
Description	Applied to the Board of Trade for relief and enclose copy of memorial to Sir William Johnson on the same subject, Doctor Franklin is furnished with all particulars to represent this matter in England Enclosure, memorial to Sir William Johnson, Feb 1765, Philadelphia, [Robert] Callendar, John Baynton, Samuel Wharton etc, on behalf of themselves and others who lately traded with the Indian nations on the Ohio and to the westward, desire compensation, in the shape of a proportionate grant of land, for their losses sustained through plunder by the Indians
Extent	6 pages