Letter 2077

Woods Rogers to Hans Sloane – May 7, 1716


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Date: May 7, 1716
Author: Woods Rogers
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 155-156



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Rogers asks for information on Madagascar. He has plans to found a settlement there. Rogers was a privateer and colonial governor in the Bahamas (Gail Saunders, Rogers, Woodes (c.16791732), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24006, accessed 28 June 2011]).




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