(COLONIAL WARS FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR) Pepperell William The

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HASTENENING TO THE NEW YORK FRONTIER (COLONIAL WARS--FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.) Pepperell, William. The Hero of Louisbourg tries to get the old gang together for a new war. Autograph Letter Signed, retained draft, to Captain Edward Cole, signed as "Wm Pepperrell." One page, 9 x 7 1/2 inches; on verso of a partial envelope sheet addressed to Pepperell; moderate wear. Boston, 9 May 1755

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Sir William Pepperell had been the American hero of the Siege of Louisbourg in 1745. As hostilities with the French flared up again in 1755, he was instrumental in raising two regiments of Massachusetts troops for a campaign on the New York frontier. These regiments would be decimated the following year at the Battle of Fort Oswego. Here he writes to Edward Cole, a Rhode Island officer who had also served at Louisbourg: "I am glad you are agoing altho not in my regment. I understand the provitial troops and our regments will soon joyn together."