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Thomas Parry, Free Merchant, Madras 1768-1824
Date transcribed | 2017-02-11 | Transcribed by | Peter Schofield | Comment | Transcribed from the book 'Thomas Parry, Free Merchant, Madras 1768-1824' by G H Hodgson, published 1938 by Higginbothams, at Madras [download available from Digital Library of India]. |
| Surname | De Ponthieu | | Forename | J | | Rank | Esq | | Location | London  | | Summary Remarks | Letter from Thomas Parry to J De Ponthieu, in London. Mentions the Modeste frigate had captured a French Privateer, the Ravenant in the Bay. The Fleet, consisting of the Pheonix, Lord Nelson, Tiger, Glory, Diana, Ann, Ceylon and Preston are to sail under convoy of the Albion. Admiral Pellew, Naval Commander in Chief at Madras, sailed in the Culloden to the east, to wait for the China Fleet and is to go home in January. He made a large fortune and his eldest son had married the eldest daughter of Sir George Barlow. Sir Henry Gwellin is a passenger on the Pheonix. | | Year | 1808 | | Page | 261 |
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Transcribed from the book 'Thomas Parry, Free Merchant, Madras 1768-1824' by G H Hodgson, published 1938 by Higginbothams, at Madras [download available from Digital Library of India].
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