HARRISON AND LEGAS

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/111
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: HARRISON AND LEGAS
Date(s)	: 1737-1750
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 13 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Harrison and Legas | ironfounders, gunfounders and ordnance contractors

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

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.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

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

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

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

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
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.

Date(s) of descriptions:
November 2010 to January 2011.