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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Vernon-Wager papers, 1654-1773</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Vernon, Edward</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1684-1757</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence of Vernon and Sir Charles Wager (1666-1743), British admirals, relating to English operations in the West Indies, the naval expedition against Cartagena, Colombia and Cuba, a proposed expedition against Georgia and Florida, attempts to suppress piracy on the Spanish Main, the slave trade, the commercial operations of the South Sea Company, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the Philippines.  Correspondents include Sir Jeffery Amherst, Martin Bladen, Lt. Gov. Francis Fauquier, Major Gen. Thomas Gage, Lt. Gov. Charles Lawrence, Sir John Norris, Andrew Stone, Sir Edward Trelawny, James O'Hara Tyrawly, and Maj. Gen. Thomas Wentworth.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 17,137 (reels 89-94).</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.</note>
  <note>British naval officer.</note>
  <note>Calendar published by the Library of Congress, 1904.  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Peter Force papers and collection (Series 8D : entry 181).</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Baron</namePart>
      <namePart>Amherst, Jeffery Amherst</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1717-1797</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bladen, Martin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1680-1746</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fauquier, Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1704?-1768</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gage, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1721-1787</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lawrence, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1709-1760</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Sir</namePart>
      <namePart>Norris, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1660?-1749</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stone, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1703-1773</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Trelawny, Edward</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1699-1754</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Baron</namePart>
      <namePart>Tyrawly, James O'Hara</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1690-1773</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wager, Vernon</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wentworth, Thomas</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Great Britain.</namePart>
      <namePart>Royal Navy</namePart>
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    <topic>Foreign service</topic>
    <geographic>North America</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Great Britain.</namePart>
      <namePart>Royal Navy</namePart>
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    <topic>Foreign service</topic>
    <geographic>West Indies</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>South Sea Company.</namePart>
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    <topic>Pirates</topic>
    <geographic>Spanish Main</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slave trade</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Bahamas</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Colombia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>History, Naval</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Jamaica</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Philippines</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>West Indies</geographic>
    <topic>History, Naval</topic>
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    <occupation>Naval officers, British</occupation>
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