Poor Wolfe, but poorer bride!
YUNAF.
I am enabled to reply to the third Query of Ʒ from papers in my possession. Wolfe's commission as second lieutenant in his father's (Col. Edward Wolfe's) regiment of marines,[3] is dated 3d November, 1741; as ensign in Col. Scipio Duroure's regiment, 27th March, 1742; as lieutenant in the same regiment, 14th July, 1743; as adjutant in the same regiment, 22d July, 1743; as captain in Barrell's regiment, 23d June, 1744; as major in Lord George Sackville's regiment,[4] 5th January, 1748-49; as lieut.-col. of the same regiment, 20th March, 1749-50, and colonel by brevet, 21st Oct. 1757; colonel of the 67th regiment, 21st April, 1758; brigadier in America, 23d July, 1758; killed at siege of Quebec.
[3] This regiment was afterwards numbered the 1st regiment.
[4] This regiment was afterwards numbered the 20th, and then the 67th.
Wolfe's father, Edward Wolfe, was appointed brigadier-general, 25th April, 1745; major-general, 27th May, 1745, and lieut.-general, 30th Sept. 1747.
If Ʒ will communicate with me personally, I may be able to furnish him with some other information relating to Wolfe.
ROBERT COLE.
The following memoranda from MSS. in my care, relative to this distinguished man, may, perhaps, be of use to your correspondent Ʒ .
Feb. 1746, a petition (dated Feb. 1746) to the Duke of Bedford for his interference relative to the pay due to him as Inspector of Marines.