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- 1768-1816 (Creation)
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33pp
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Kerby A. Miller created his transcripts (both original and annotated) of the Wylly-Habersham-Lawrence letters from the original manuscripts and transcripts held in PRONI [reference number D955].
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Transcripts and abstracts of letters written by members of the extended Wylly, Habersham, and Lawrence families. Originating in Coleraine, County Derry, members of the family emigrated to Savannah, Georgia prior to the American Revolutionary War. Much of the family were compelled to leave Georgia due to their Loyalist stance and after some years in Nova Scotia fled to the Bahamas.
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Petitions filed by Susannah Wylly and her son Captain William Wylly to the British government for compensation for losses suffered during the war are located at P155/128/5/208-211.