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D239 - FitzHerbert family of Tissington - [16th-20th cent]
- F - Family records
  - C - Family correspondence
    - 2 - Letters of William FitzHerbert [d.1772]

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D239/M/F/6549-6554
Title	Letters from William FitzHerbert in Barbados to his father, reporting gloomily on the Turners Hall plantation and his financial circumstances
Date	1771-1772
Description	E.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"
Extent	6 items
Level	File
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	FitzHerbert family of Tissington
Format	Document
Term	British Empire
Term	Colonialism

Places

Place (click for further details)	Type
Barbados	Country
Turners Hall Plantation	Settlement
West Indies	Region

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