carleton sir guy first baron (1 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. small 4to. one page, with integral blank (docket title on verso) (laid down). CARLETON, Sir Guy, First Baron Dorchester [1724-1808] [Lieutenant-Governor (1766-68) and Governor (1768-78) of the Province of Quebec; Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in North America (1782-86); Governor of Quebec and Governor-in-Chief of British North America (1786-96). Manuscript letter, signed Dorchester , dated Quebec, January 13, 1791, to Alexander Adair in London, marked Duplicate . Informing Adair that "I drew on you in favour of Mr. T.A.Coffin for Five hundred pounds sterling in two billsInclosed is a certificate that Lady Dorchester is living." Carleton served as quartermaster of the expedition led by Wolfe against Quebec and was wounded at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. When James Murray was recalled from Quebec in 1766, Carleton was sent there as lieutenant-governor and was appointed governor in 1768. As governor he favoured the maintenance of French laws and customs rather than the introduction of British law and representative institutions and played a crucial role in the framing of the Quebec Act of 1774. It was through his efforts that the American invasion of Canada in 1775-76 was defeated, a service for which he was created KCB. As Governor-in-Chief of British North America he directed the evacuation of the troops and Loyalists from New York in 1783. Signed by Author(s).