Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – August 10, 1715
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Date: August 10, 1715 Author: Victor Ferguson Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044 Folio: ff. 84-85
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English
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British Library, London
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Material Culture, Social, Trade or Commodities
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Glasses, Jacobite Rising
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August 10, 1715
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Belfast
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Ferguson wants to procure the best glasses he can for his only son. He writes of the Jacobite Risings and his opinion of them. 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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