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VERY EARLY PRESTAMP LETTER - PRIVATELY CARRIED TO MADEIRA (VIA U.S.A.?); 12 Aug. 1764 EL from "Basseterre, Granades" (Granade is a small village, c.27 miles north of Basse-Terre on the west coast of the island of Guadeloupe) to Newton & Gordon in "Madeira" without postal marks but sent soon after the Treaty of Paris (1763) ended the British Occupation that had started in 1759 and handed the island back to France (in exchange for Canada!). The writer notes that; "We would have wrote you before now, [but] there are seldom opportunities that have offered for America for this sometime past, other ways you might have depended that we should have wrote you before now", and that "...the French in general make use of no other [wine] than Claret". Endorsed as having been received in Madeira on 3 Jan. 1765. An exceptionally early letter from Guadeloupe; the Ed Grabowski Collection had nothing earlier than 1776. Cross Reference: MADEIRA, FRENCH COLONIES
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