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D239 - FitzHerbert family of Tissington - [16th-20th cent]
- E - Estate records - 1380-1940
  - C - Caribbean Estates - 1683-1898
    - B - Turners Hall Sugar Plantation, Barbados - 1721-1889
      - 8 - Correspondence - 1721-1856
        
        2 - Later Eighteenth Century Correspondence - 1772-1801

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D239/M/E/20555
Title	Philip Gibbes to Sir William FitzHerbert
Date	9 Jun 1788
Description	"I have seen so much inattention in the gentlemen of Barbados to the houses of their negroes and I reproach myself so much for my own neglect in this particular that I intend, for conscience sake, and for the sake of example, to send out two or three frames of houses to be erected ... Your feelings I know to be the same as mine upon this subject. I will therefore send you the draft of the house I propose to have framed ..."
Extent	1 item
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Turners Hall sugar plantation, Barbados
Archive Creator	FitzHerbert family of Tissington
Copies	A digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office in the Digital Repository, Archive Copies (arranged by reference) folder.
Copies	Microfilm M701
Term	Sugar plantations
	British Empire
	Colonialism

Places

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

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