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31. EAP148/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP148/4
Title:
University of the West Indies: West Indies and Special Collections [1672 - present]
Scope & Content:
The Manuscripts Collection contains documentation from Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, Carriacou, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent. The current inventory focuses on manuscripts from 1672 through 1800. The Collection comprises documents pertaining to slave...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
after 1672
Extent:
10 files totalling 209 TIFF images

32. EAP148/4/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP148/4/1
Title:
Letters to Col. Charles Long concerning the latter's estates and affairs in Jamaica [1708-1712]
Scope & Content:
The letters deal with the mismanagement of overseers, the decay of estate buildings and their repair, runaway slaves and the hiring out of slaves with respect to Long properties, Norbrook, Sevens, Lucky Valley and Bowers. The names of many prominent Jamaican planters are mentioned in the letters...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1708-1712
Extent:
16 TIFF images

33. EAP148/4/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP148/4/2
Title:
[Papers relating to Honoré Sellier 1746-1754]
Scope & Content:
Petition, surveyor certificate etc.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1746-1754
Extent:
44 TIFF images

34. EAP148/4/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP148/4/3
Title:
[Papers relating to Mr Charles Desbonner 1756-1764, 1766]
Scope & Content:
[The following note about this file was kindly provided by a researcher. We have left the original surname spelling provided so that both spellings can be found: Charles Desbonnes was born in Saint-François, Guadeloupe, in about 1724, as he was baptized there on 12 April 1724. He came to Carri...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1756-1766
Extent:
29 TIFF images

35. EAP148/4/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP148/4/4
Title:
Indenture [1763]
Scope & Content:
Indenture by which John Bourryau of Blightborough in the county of Lincoln at present residing in the island of Saint Christopher leases to Culling Smith of Red Lyon Square in the Parish of Saint George the Martyr in the county of Middlesex, England, various plantations in the island of Saint Chr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1763
Extent:
2 TIFF images

36. EAP148/4/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP148/4/5
Title:
Indenture [1766]
Scope & Content:
Indenture, dated 3rd April 1766, between His Excellence George Thomas, Governor or His Majesty's Leeward Caribbean islands in America, and others concerning the marriage of his son and heir William to Margaret Sydserte and involving the transfer of Old North Sound Estate in Antigua, commonly call...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1766
Extent:
17 TIFF images

37. EAP148/4/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP148/4/6
Title:
Indenture of a Sale of Plantation in the Great River Division of Tobago [1796]
Scope & Content:
John Graham of Grenada to John Beardwell Barnard of Grenada. Indenture of a sale of a plantation in the Great River Division of Tobago, with its stores, slaves, etc. Executed at Tobago, 28th March, 1769. (5Ѕ sheets paper signed and sealed by the contracting parties and folded and endorsed by the ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1796
Extent:
13 TIFF images

38. EAP148/4/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP148/4/7
Title:
Deed of Feoffment of a Plantation in Parish of St. David, Dominica [1771]
Scope & Content:
Robert George Bruce, Esq., and Mary, his wife, and William Ward, Esq. of Roseau, Dominica to (2) Major James Bruce of Dominica. Recorded at Dominica on October 17, 1771.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
4 TIFF images

39. EAP148/4/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP148/4/8
Title:
The Letters of Junius Minor [1788]
Scope & Content:
Remarks on certain passages on the anonymous pamphlet called Letters of Junius Minor. Printed by John Lowndes in Roseau in April 1788.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1788
Extent:
54 TIFF images

40. EAP148/4/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP148/4/9
Title:
William Dunlop authorising payment to the order of Mr. George Cooke [1792]
Scope & Content:
Warrant signed to William Dunlop authorising payment to the order of Mr. George Cooke for the expense of the confinement of a man named Cuffee.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1792
Extent:
4 TIFF images