Lease between Anne, David, and Richard Gardner, all of Nevis, and Alexandra Houston, John Clerk, William Crichton, William McDowall, all of City of London

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Title: Lease between Anne, David, and Richard Gardner, all of Nevis, and Alexandra Houston, John Clerk, William Crichton, William McDowall, all of City of London
Published / Created: 1769 May 3
Description: For a plantation, Rawlins's Land, in the parish of St. James; lists names of slaves included with the property. Seals of Anne and David Gardner.
Provenance: Source unknown. Possibly formerly owned by James Coleman, genealogical and antiquarian manuscripts vendor, London., Most of the manuscripts are listed in Volumes II and III of Vere Langford Oliver's six-volume compendium Caribbeana, being Miscellaneous Papers Related to the History, Genealogy, Topography, and Antiquities of the British West Indies (London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919). Footnotes in those volumes associate the documents with James Coleman, a dealer who specialized in genealogical and antiquarian manuscripts active in London and Tottenham from 1862 to 1905; most of the documents have printed descriptions clipped from a sales catalogue attached to their versos.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

GEN MSS 1412

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Box 3, folder 31

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Citation: British Caribbean Documents. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.