Markham, off Charlestown Bar, to his father, Bishopsthorpe, York, now 1st Lieutenant of the Roebuck, and Captain Douglas, the previous 1st lieutenant now in the place of Sir Andrew Hamond who is now in London, going to New York with a fleet of transports and six thousand men, expect to be very rich soon, recommending a brother of a friend as a curate at Tregony in Cornwall

7 June 1780, Markham, off Charlestown Bar, to his father, Bishopsthorpe, York, now 1st Lieutenant of the Roebuck, and Captain Douglas, the previous 1st lieutenant now in the place of Sir Andrew Hamond who is now in London, going to New York with a fleet of transports and six thousand men, expect to be very rich soon, recommending a brother of a friend as a curate at Tregony in Cornwall

Record Details

Item reference: MRK/107/1/7
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Date made: 1780
Creator: Markham, John
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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