Letter 1926

Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – October 29, 1713


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Date: October 29, 1713
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 200-201



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Ferguson asks Sloane to find a position for James Anderson as an apothecary’s journeyman. Brother Elsmere’s family is well. Mr McBride wrote a letter of recommendation as well. See: Sloane MS 4043 fols. 202-203. Victor Ferguson (d. 1729) was a physician of Newtown, near Belfast (Toby C. Bernard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), ch. 5; “Fergusons of Belfast” URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colin/FergusonsOfIreland/Belfast.htm).




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