| Description | Letter to Alexander Gordon from his brother James, London, letting him know that the East India ships are to call at Madeira, seeking part payment for a cargo of wine in iron hoops, hoping that a Jamaica ship will call at Madeira and collect wine for Jamaica, cross that their sister has not moved her cornyard as he asked her to do, he does not wish ‘to put it on Tochieneal, as she and her husband are jealous of him and always apt to give him uneasiness, which makes him interfere with them as little as possible, contact with Vansittart at the India house, three frigates, the Aurora, the Stagg and the Hawke, are set for India with various officials on board, accounting news from Madeira, 11 August 1769 |