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RefNoEL/I1/182
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Reverend Hugh Jones to Benjamin Woodroffe
CreatorJones; Hugh (1671-1702); under-keeper, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; chaplain to the Governor of Maryland; minister of a parish in Calvert County, Maryland
Date1699
DescriptionAccount of Maryland, USA: its geography, the soil, the different species of trees and birds; its government, religion; and historical facts of the area
Read to the Royal Society on 17 January 1699
LanguageEnglish
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialPrinted in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 21, no 259, p 436
RelatedRecordRBO/7/81
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/8e317288-ecc5-4f50-b8b8-356335f6fb0c
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5228Woodroffe; Benjamin (1638 - 1711); clergyman1638 - 1711
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