Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – May 10, 1700
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Date: May 10, 1700 Author: Victor Ferguson Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038 Folio: ff. 14-15
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British Library, London
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May 10, 1700
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Belfast
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Mr Taylor John McBride
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Ferguson states that he rarely writes letters of recommendation. He asks Sloane to give Mr Taylor, a surgeon, some of his time. John McBride offers his services to Sloane. 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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