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Advert for the sale of tobacco
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advertisement for the sale of tobacco from America, brought to Bristol in a ship called Defence.
Date: March 3rd 1781
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Letter urging voters to vote
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Campaign leaflet from Henry Cruger to the voters of Bristol, calling upon them to vote for him in the 1781 Parliamentary bye-election. Cruger, an American by birth, stood against George Daubeny, a Bristolian, and lost to him. Cruger won the seat in the next election of 1784.
Date: 17th Feb 1781
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Letter urging voters to vote
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal .
The 1781 bye-election in Bristol was caused by the death of one of the sitting MPs. George Daubeny, from a family of sugar refiners, stood against Henry Cruger, an American by birth. This campaign leaflet from Daubeny calls upon the voters of Bristol to vote for him in the election. Daubeny won the seat.
Date: Feb 17th 1781
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Advert for the sale of tobacco
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advertisement for the sale of tobacco from America.
Date: March 3rd 1781
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Advert for sale of tobacco
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advertisement for the sale of tobacco from Virginia, USA.
Date: Jan 25th 1781
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Advert for sale of sugar
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advertisement for the sale of sugar from the plantations of the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Jamaica.
Date: Jan 13th 1781
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Advert for sale of Jamaican goods
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advertisement for the sale of goods imported to Bristol from Jamaica, including cocoa nuts.
Chocolate was first used as a drink, sweetened with sugar to mask the bitter flavour of the chocolate. Later it was used for making eating chocolate. At this period, most people drank beer, wine or spirits. Water was not safe to drink, tea coffee and chocolate were expensive. Quakers promoted drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol.
Date: Jan 20th 1781
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Advert for sale of tea and coffee
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advertisement for the sale of tea and coffee. Sugar grown on the plantations in the Caribbean was required to sweeten these otherwise bitter drinks.
Date: Jan 5th 1781
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Correspondence; I Hobhouse and Partners
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The African Slave Trade of Bristol. Letters to Isaac Hobhouse and partners. Slave Estates (Jefferies collection).
Hobshouse was a merchant behind slave voyages and owned ships.
A list of the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa. The list includes merchants in London, Liverpool and Bristol.
Date: June 23rd 1755
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Advert for sale of tobacco
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal .
Advertisement for the sale of tobacco from the Caribbean island of St Christophers.
Date: Jan 6th 1781
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