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Accession Number

NAM.1981-12-53-224

Description

Letter to Lt Ledingham, acting paymaster of the Cape Regiment, from William Warre, Cape of Good Hope, 1 Dec 1818. Copy, in relation to the disputed estate of Capt Thomas Sheridan, Colonial Paymaster, asks him to refund the amount debited to Sheridan’s account for the loss on the changing of Spanish dollars to pay the Cape Regiment. One of 101 papers in the collection relating to William Warre’s period as Deputy Quarter Master General, Cape of Good Hope, 1814-1819. From a collection of 566 papers of Lt Gen Sir William Warre (1784-1853) relating to his military career, 1807-1851.

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