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40.
73. Reading notes, commonplace entries and memoranda

Creator:
From the Collection: Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
OSB MSS 176
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 73
Image Count:
292
Description:
Notes on scientific subjects, including electricity; natural history; travel and exploration; alphabets and languages; mathematics, including magic squares; and poetry
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Thistlewood papers (OSB MSS 176) > Series III: Reading Notes and Other Papers > 73. Reading notes, commonplace entries and memoranda

48.
80. Reading notes

Creator:
From the Collection: Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
OSB MSS 176
Container / Volume:
Box 10, folder 75
Image Count:
174
Description:
Extracts from and comments on The Philosophical Grammar by Benjamin Martin; A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, by Salmon; and other works; also includes mechanical sketches
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Thistlewood papers (OSB MSS 176) > Series III: Reading Notes and Other Papers > 80. Reading notes

51.
83. Genealogical and antiquarian notes

Creator:
From the Collection: Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786
Published / Created:
[1740s]
Call Number:
OSB MSS 176
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 78
Image Count:
72
Description:
Includes notes on Thistlewood family history and antiquarian and topographical notes on Lincolnshire
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Thistlewood papers (OSB MSS 176) > Series III: Reading Notes and Other Papers > 83. Genealogical and antiquarian notes

54.
86. Westmoreland April 10th 1754. Mr. Richard Beckford's Instructions

Creator:
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."
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Thistlewood papers (OSB MSS 176) > Series III: Reading Notes and Other Papers > 86. Westmoreland April 10th 1754. Mr. Richard Beckford's Instructions

55.
87. Copies of documents concerning Jamaica

Creator:
From the Collection: Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786
Published / Created:
[1756 and after]
Call Number:
OSB MSS 176
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 82
Image Count:
66
Description:
Contents include minutes of meetings of the council of war; memoranda; and satirical poems
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Thistlewood papers (OSB MSS 176) > Series III: Reading Notes and Other Papers > 87. Copies of documents concerning Jamaica

56.
88. Jamaica. List of Negroes belonging to Mr. Thomas Thistlewood, formerly of Tupholme Lincolnshire

Creator:
From the Collection: Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786
Published / Created:
1758-1766
Call Number:
OSB MSS 176
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 83
Image Count:
68
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Thistlewood papers (OSB MSS 176) > Series III: Reading Notes and Other Papers > 88. Jamaica. List of Negroes belonging to Mr. Thomas Thistlewood, formerly of Tupholme Lincolnshire, with a Tabular account of their weekly labour, between 1758 & 1766

57.
89. Egypt Plantation, Westmoreland, Jamaica

Creator:
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Thistlewood papers (OSB MSS 176) > Series III: Reading Notes and Other Papers > 89. Egypt Plantation, Westmoreland, Jamaica

59.
90. An Account of the Gaim which I shot in the Island of Jamaica Beginning in the Year 1764

Creator:
From the Collection: Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786
Published / Created:
1764-1765
Call Number:
OSB MSS 176
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 85
Image Count:
36
Description:
Thistlewood's game book
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Thistlewood papers (OSB MSS 176) > Series III: Reading Notes and Other Papers > 90. An Account of the Gaim which I shot in the Island of Jamaica Beginning in the Year 1764

60.
91. Navigational textbook

Creator:
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Thistlewood papers (OSB MSS 176) > Series III: Reading Notes and Other Papers > 91. Navigational textbook

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