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'An account of the boaring a deep Well near Queensborough and finding Water etc in a Letter from the Officers of Sheerness and Chatham to the Lords of the Admiralty'

Reference number: RBO/14/86

Date: 1729

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Signatories were: Richard Frost, James Young, Edmund Oxley, Benjamin Boswell, Richard Stacey, J Hayward, John Ward, William Hogg, J Dod, Charles Finch, D Devert, W Jones
Read to the Royal Society on 8 January 1729

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RBO/14/86
Earliest possible date
1729
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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'An account of the boaring a deep Well near Queensborough and finding Water etc in a Letter from the Officers of Sheerness and Chatham to the Lords of the Admiralty', 1729, RBO/14/86, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_86/an-account-of-the-boaring-a-deep-well-near-queensborough-and-finding-water-etc-in-a-letter-from-the-officers-of-sheerness-and-chatham-to-the-lords-of-the-admiralty, accessed on 20 June 2025

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