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D239 - FitzHerbert family of Tissington - [16th-20th cent]
E - Estate records
C - Jamaica and Barbados Plantations - 1683-1898
3 - Correspondence of plantation overseers - 1825-1856
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OFFENSIVE AND OPPRESSIVE LANGUAGE This catalogue and the archives it describes contain highly offensive and oppressive language. Some of the language has been included in the catalogue description to publicly reflect the attitudes of the time the records were written.
Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D239/M/E/20985-21067
Title
Series of lengthy letters from Charles Lewsey to Sir Henry FitzHerbert; reporting on conditions at Blue Mountain, Vere (Perrins), and Grange Hill
Date
1825-1827
Description
Including plan of still at Blue Mountain (D239/M/E/20988); copy of list of lands in the parish of St. Thomas-in-the East belonging to W. P. Perrin (D239/M/E/20989); Blue Mountain estate journal, June-July 1825 (D239/M/E/20990); plan of boiling house at Blue Mountain (D239/M/E/20995); Grange Hill accounts, 1822-25 (D239/M/E/21005-21006); account with John and George Ivers, 1826 (D239/M/E/21015); copy agreement to rent out land from Grange Hill, 1825 (D239/M/E/21016); note of sales of produce in Kingston, 1825 (D239/M/E/21017); increase and decrease of 'slaves' [enslaved African peoples] and stock on Perrin's (Vere), 1825 (D239/M/E/21030); account with John and George Ivers, 1826 (D239/M/E/21033); plan of part of Grange Hill (D239/M/E/21036); diagram of new method of digging cane holes (D239/M/E/21037); statement of acreage under crop on Perrin's (Vere), 1826 (D239/M/E/21040); account with John and George Ivers, 1827 (D239/M/E/21041); series ends with death of Charles Lewsey in 1827
Originals withdrawn: for copy, see Microfilm M786
Extent
83 items
Level
File
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
FitzHerbert family of Tissington
Originals
Originals withdrawn
Copies
Microfilm M786
Term
Slavery
Slaves
Ethnic groups
Forced labour
Oppression
Archivist Note
This catalogue entry has been amended in line with cataloguing procedures to address offensive and oppressive language, 9 November 2022 KM
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