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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1086/1
Title:: The Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette Newspaper Collection
Scope & Content:: The Mercury Gazette was printed in Bridgetown, Barbados, between 1762 - 1848 (or possibly up to 1864). It continued as the Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette from c 1805. Its first editor was George Edmand (sic). Subsequent editors were William Walker; the Orderson family (father John; sons...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1783-1848
Extent:: 27 series containing 2333 files and 9379 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1086/1/2
Title:: The Barbados Mercury, 1784
Scope & Content:: 1784 contains issues from 3 January to 11 December. Bound in a volume with 1783. 48 issues. Missing: 24 Jan; 28 Feb; 18 Dec. Issues measure 14' 2/8 x 9' 5/8.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1784
Extent:: 196 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1086/1/4
Title:: The Barbados Mercury, 1788
Scope & Content:: 1788 contains issues from 1 January to 30 December. Bound in a volume with 1787 and 1789. 104 issues. Missing: 7, 30 Oct. Issues measure 14’ 1/2 x 9’ 6/8.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1788
Extent:: 454 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1086/1/1
Title:: The Barbados Mercury, 1783
Scope & Content:: 1783 contains issues from 5 April to 27 December. Some issues contain supplements with Minutes of the General Assembly. Bound in a volume with 1784. 38 issues. Missing: 4 Jan to 29 Mar; 1 Nov. Issues measure 14' 2/8 x 9' 1/2.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1783
Extent:: 170 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1086/1/3
Title:: The Barbados Mercury, 1787
Scope & Content:: 1787 contains issues from 21 July to 29 December. Bound in a volume with 1788 and 1789. 42 issues. Missing: 2 Jan-17 Jul; 24 Jul; 30 Nov; 1 Dec. Issues measure 14' 1/2 x 9' 6/8.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1787
Extent:: 170 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1086/1/5
Title:: The Barbados Mercury, 1789
Scope & Content:: 1789 contains issues from 3 January to 11 Apr. Bound in a volume with 1787 and 1788. 28 issues. Missing: 4, 7 Apr; 14 Apr-29 Dec. Issues measure 14’ 3/8 x 9’ 5/8.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1789
Extent:: 130 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1086/1/6
Title:: The Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette, 1807
Scope & Content:: 1807 contains issues from 3 January to 29 December. Paper extremely brittle. 97 issues. Missing: 13 Jan; 10 Feb; 11 Jul; 15, 18 Aug; 17 Nov. Issues measure 16’ 1/2 x10’ 1/2.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1807
Extent:: 384 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1086/1/7
Title:: The Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette, 1808
Scope & Content:: 1808 contains issues from 2 January to 31 December. Paper extremely brittle. Badly worm damaged. Some dark and brittle issues. There is an additional volume titled “August-December 1808” that contains the same months. 104 issues. Missing: 2 Jan. Issues measure 16’ 1/2 x10’.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1808
Extent:: 418 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1086/1/8
Title:: The Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette, 1809
Scope & Content:: 1809 contains issues from 3 January to 30 December. Paper extremely brittle. Some dark issues. 104 issues. Issues measure 17’ 1/4 x 10’.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: 416 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1086/1/9
Title:: The Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette, 1810
Scope & Content:: 1810 contains issues from 2 January to 29 December. The last page of 8 Sep 1810 mentions: "Printed and published...by William Walker for the proprietor." Editor and proprietor up to then was Isaac Orderson. The date coincides possibly with the time that Isaac’s first wife got sick and they travel...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1810
Extent:: 404 TIFF images

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