1784  23 Sep  London  

316. Paul Maylor to Gideon White. Duplicate of above.
Overleaf: 1. Another copy of letter of 10 Aug. [see above]

2. 19 Sept. [Copy of] letter from Capt. Sargent to Paul Maylor, notifying him that his services as agent will not be required any longer. 

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1784  26 Sep  Lymington  England

317. Duplicate of letter of 2 August from James Ballmer to Gideon White. Details re Lord Charles Montague's effects and accounts, which Ballmer has in charge. "The half pay is not finally settled for both Battalions I happen'd to be here in good time & put the Batts. together which had the proper effect, but I have had as much attendance for it on Ld. Sydney as if it had been the greatest favour & for some time the 2nd Battn. was very doubtful. The Bat & Forage money I applied for to Gen. Campbell, before I came from Jamaica ...but I see very little hopes of it I observe the Lands are not to be granted without the Officers or Men are on the Spot..." Asks to have his proportion of lands made out since he expects to arrive soon."I am trying to indent some Carpenters &c. but Government will not give passage to them as yet, I have also applied for some Women & I believe a few will come." Intends to carry on fishery and wants lot in Manchester. Postscript, 26 Sept. re halfpay. [Both in Ballmer's writing.] 

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1784  1 Oct  London  

318. James Ballmer to Gideon White. He asks that White apply for his land with the regiment, for he intends "to push the fishing business…I think by one partner being at home and the other on the spot a good & profitable business might be established." Further business matters. Holograph.

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1784  4 Oct  Parrtown  

319. Zeph. Kingsley to Gideon White, in receipt of letters. Asks him to inquire of every vessel from England for his goods and to send them by Capt. Dalzell. Encloses copy of what he wrote to Col. Powell about White. Overleaf: extract of Kingsley's letter to Col. Powell, relating White's services as a loyalist from 1774 to the end of the war, and stating the writer's conviction that White should have half-pay and that he is "truly worthy" of Powell's "care and friendship". Holograph.

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1784  6 Oct  London  

320. Paul Maylor to Gideon White, relative to Sargent's and White's affairs.  Holograph.

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1784  7 Oct  London  

321. [Copy of] letter from Paul Maylor to Wm. Abbott, relative to Abbott's business with Ralph Cunningham.  

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1784  10 Oct  London  

322. Henry Paget to Gideon White, in receipt of letter. He has just arrived from Jamaica. "Our half pay was only settled about two months ago & I am inform'd we are indebted to the good offices of Lord Sidney for it with respect to the sending out of ship carpenters coopers Blacksmiths &c. you have not been explicit enough on that Subject you do not mention what we can afford to give them p. annum, or on what terms to engage them, indeed in one part you desire me to buy a Carpenter or two with Nineteen pounds Jamaica Cury. from this I can only think...that you have been led away by the public prints respecting thoose poor deluded wreches who immigrated from Ireland to the American States & where there sold as slaves, it is not so with this country I imagine tradesmen of the description you mention could not be procured under forty fifty & sixty pounds p. annum their Passage & meat drink & lodging found them. "He is going to Shropshire whre they build vessels and could engage some there if he knew the terms which White wants. Wants description of Chedabucto. Holograph.

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1784  11 Oct  Jamaica  

323. George Hough to Gideon White. He congratulates White on the regiment's being fixed on the British establishment. Personal messages. Holograph.

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1784  14 Oct  Shelburne  

324. Copy of certificate of Patrick Wall that he could not receive amount of O'Halloran's order. [Filed 4 Apr. 1783, with order] 

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1784  17 Oct  Halifax  

325. Thos. Millidge to Chas. Whitworth. He has left orders for Mr. George Bell to pay him £100, and hopes to pay the remainder from his half pay in December. Holograph.

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1784  24 Oct  London  

327. B. Jarvis to [Gideon White], announcing his arrival in England. Encloses newspapers, and reports on various acquaintances. Holograph.

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1784  26 Oct  Halifax  

328. Geo. Deblois Sr. & Jr. to Chas. Whitworth, in receipt of letter, and stating that they will honour Thompson's draft.  Holograph.

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1784  5 Nov  London  

329. Thos. Dickason Jr. to Gideon White, in receipt of letter. Has no hope that his application to Col. Powell respecting White's pay while he was captain in the militia will succeed. Personal messages. Holograph.

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1784  8 Nov  Parrtown  

330. Jno. Coffin to Gideon White, in receipt of letter. He assures White of his willingness to serve him. Personal messages. Holograph.

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