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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D239/M/F/6549-6554
TitleLetters from William FitzHerbert in Barbados to his father, reporting gloomily on the Turners Hall plantation and his financial circumstances
Date1771-1772
DescriptionE.g. 3 February: "I found on my arrival on the plantation every mark of carelessness, dilatoryness, and bad management in all those who have had anything to do with it, so much so that it has been long the laughing stock of the country"
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorFitzHerbert family of Tissington
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Place (click for further details)Type
BarbadosCountry
Turners Hall PlantationSettlement
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