Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – October 29, 1713
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Date: October 29, 1713 Author: Victor Ferguson Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043 Folio: ff. 200-201
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English
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Social
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Apothecaries, Recommendations
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October 29, 1713
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Belfast
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James Anderson Brother Elsmere
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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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