Brief guide to manuscripts collections| William L. Clements Library The University of Michigan Louisburg Siege Collection |
Collection of letters and documents written at Louisburg from April, 1745, to February, 1746, by several New Hampshire men who were members of the expedition led by Sir William Pepperrell and Sir Peter Warren.
Included is a series of nine letters written by Captain Thomas Westbrooke Waldron (d. 1785) to his father, Richard Waldron, at Portsmouth, N.H. The correspondence forms a running narrative of the siege and includes a copy of the articles of capitulation dictated by Pepperrell and Warren. there are two replies from Richard Waldron. The remaining letters are written by fellow officers and soldiers.
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