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  <titleInfo>
    <title>John Shirley correspondence, 1755</title>
  </titleInfo>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Shirley, John</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">-1755</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
    </role>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Two ALsS (1755 July 20 and September 8-11) written to Robert Hunter Morris, acting British colonial governor of Pennsylvania, by Shirley, a member of the Niagara expedition, reporting on conditions at Oswego, N.Y., the arrival of supplies, activities of the French and Indians, and plans to attack Fort Frontenac, Ont.  The earlier letter contains a postscript written by Shirley's father, William Shirley, leader of the expedition and British colonial governor of Massachusetts,</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>British colonial army officer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morris, Robert Hunter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">approximately 1700-1764</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shirley, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1694-1771</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Fort Frontenac (Ont.)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Massachusetts</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>To 1775</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>French and Indian War, 1754-1763</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Niagara Frontier (N.Y.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Ontario</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Oswego (N.Y.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>To 1775</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>French and Indian War, 1754-1763</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Army officers, British</occupation>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="lccn">mm 79001741</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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