Coleção GB 0074 CLC/B/111 - HARRISON AND LEGAS

13 production units.

GB 0074 CLC/B/111 1737-1750 Collection 13 production units. Harrison and Legas , ironfounders, gunfounders and ordnance contractors

William Harrison and John Legas became partners in an iron founding and gun founding business on 29 September 1741. They owned a number of foundries in East Sussex, and dealt largely with the Board of Ordnance at Woolwich, where Samuel Remnant was their agent. On William Harrison's death in January 1744/5, his share in the partnership passed to his executors, Samual Remnant and John Legas, as trustees for his sons Andrew and John Harrison.

The records were purchased by Guildhall Library in 1946 and 1951 and catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff at the same time. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of Harrison and Legas, ironfounders, gunfounders and ordnance contractors, comprising correspondence, accounts, inventories and an assignment of a lease.

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

November 2010 to January 2011. Greenwich Ordnance Office Ordnance Office , Board of Ordnance , 15th century -1855 Ordnance Board Harrison and Legas , ironfounders , gunfounders and ordnance contractors Information sources Business records Documents Equipment Military equipment Weapons Firearms Guns Facilities Foundries Industrial facilities Iron foundries People People by occupation Personnel Industrial personnel Manufacturers Armaments manufacturers London England UK Western Europe Europe Sussex Woolwich

The records were purchased by Guildhall Library in 1946 and 1951 and catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff at the same time. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of Harrison and Legas, ironfounders, gunfounders and ordnance contractors, comprising correspondence, accounts, inventories and an assignment of a lease.

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

• inglês

• latim

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• inglês