NAM.2012-08-2-94

Letter from Gen Thomas Gage, Colonel of the 22nd Regiment of Foot to Col Adam Williamson, Deputy Adjutant General, 5 Aug 1782. Writes that the Regiment was recruited from Staffordshire and Cheshire while quartered in Great Britain and would like to bear the name of either county. From a group of 52 letters replying to letters from Adam Williamson asking each of the Colonels of the Regiments of Foot to choose a county name, 1782.