From the Collection: Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786
Published / Created:
1754 April 10
Call Number:
OSB MSS 176
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 81
Image Count:
86
Description:
In six sections, headed "1. The Care and Management of White Servants & Slaves; 2. of Mules & Neat Cattle; 3. Of Buildings; 4. The Culture of the Soil; 5. The Making of Sugar; 6. The Distillery."
From the Collection: Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786
Published / Created:
1767-1768, undated
Call Number:
OSB MSS 176
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 84
Image Count:
100
Description:
Contents include detailed weather reports for Egypt Plantation for 1767; a memorandum on the climate of Jamaica; an explanation of Thistlewood's methodology in taking these weather measurements; and a poem copied from the St. Jago Intelligencer
From the Collection: Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786
Published / Created:
[1750s]
Call Number:
OSB MSS 176
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 86
Image Count:
290
Description:
Manuscript textbook, in a single scribal hand, containing various problem sets relating to charting courses, methods of sailing, measurement and gauging, and geometry
Laid in: autograph letter signed from John Carter to J. S. Padley, Horncastle, 1853 November 22. Concerns the ownership of the Thistlewood papers.
Enclosure: autograph letter signed from J. F. Wray to an unidentified recipient, 1852 February 9
