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Letter regarding running of plantation
Description:
Spring Plantation.
Copy of letter to Mary Elbridge following the death of her husband, regarding the running of Spring Plantation for his heirs; John, Thomas, Mary, and Rebecca Elbridge.
Date: 19th July 1727
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (8) b
Resignation letter of plantation manager
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Spring Plantation.
Letter from William Daling to Henry Woolnough explaining his resignation as manager after Mary Elbridge’s death. Estate was taken over by Mr French who made it impossible for Daling to manage properly. Shows the problems of absentee landlords.
Date: 13th Aug 1744
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (29)
Accounts of Edward Harford
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Spring Plantation.
Accounts of Edward Harford, acting for Rebecca Woolnough in Bristol, re payments on imported rum and income from sale of gold and silver.
Date: unknown
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Object ID:AC/WO 16 (32) c
Letter of complaint to agents
Description:
Spring Plantation.
Letter from Rebecca Woolnough to agents in Jamaica , Watson, Grant and Company, complaining at their lack of progress in getting accounts for lands in Jamaica, and threatening to find another agent if they do not respond.
Date: 28th July 1752
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Object ID:AC/WO 16 (36) b
Abstract; title to shares in Orange Bay
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Abstract of title to shares in Orange Bay plantation, in Jamaica. Showing the subdivision of interests in estates caused by inheritance.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (25) e
Estimate of slaves and stock
Description:
Spring Plantation.
Estimate of Negroes and Stock now alive which were on plantation at time of Mr Elbridge’s decease..
The language used to describe people of African descent in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries is unacceptable in today’s terms. We cannot avoid using this language in its original context. To change the words would impose 20th century attitudes on history.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (23) b i
Estimate of slaves and stock
Description:
Spring Plantation.
Estimate of Negroes and Stock now on Spring Plantation; purchased and put on since Mr Elbridge’s decease.
The language used to describe people of African descent in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries is unacceptable in today’s terms. We cannot avoid using this language in its original context. To change the words would impose 20th century attitudes on history.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (23) b ii
Letter; sale and valuation of plantation
Description:
Spring Plantation.
Letter from Mary Elbridge to John Elbridge (brother-in-law?) Jan 29th 1738/9, discussing sale and valuation of plantation and need to sell. Plantation is producing less than it was 7 years ago and boiling house coppers will need replacing soon at great cost. She asks for a mulatto (a term used widely in the 18th and 19th centuries to describe a person of mixed race) woman, Mary, and her child, Mimber, for herself. Suggests £8000 for the estate, of which her share (given improvements she has made) should be £2,5000.
Date: Jan 29 1738/9
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (22) b
Letter complaining advice not taken
Description:
Spring Plantation.
Letter from Mary Elbridge to Thomas Elbridge (cousin) and Henry Woolnough, Nov 22 1739. Complains they did not take her advice to sell the plantation, as it was worn out after 50 years of cultivation. Also, the vagaries of the weather made crops uncertain each year. Mary asks that they consider her advice to sell, or if not, buy out her share so that she can quit running the estate.
Date: Nov 22, 1739
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Object ID:AC/WO 16 (17) g
Letter complaining of ingratitude
Description:
Spring Plantation.
Letter from Mary Elbridge to Henry Woolnough, June 29th 1739. Mary Elbridge had run the plantation for her brother (-in-law?) John Elbridge and the letter complains of the work she put in to run and improve the estate and the
ingratitude shown for her efforts. She congratulates Henry Woolnough on his wife/ her sister inheriting the estate.
Date: June 29 1739
Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office
Object ID:AC/WO 16 (17) e
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