Beschreibung:

Papers relating to the Campbell family of the Parish of Westmoreland, Jamaica, and their sugar plantations, including: (i) "A Valuation of four Negroes belonging to The Estate of George Carfree Deceas'd taken this 17th day of June 1766", comprising "Harlequin a Negro Man" at £70, "Prosper", another, at £50, and "Violet and her Child Poll" at £60, signed at the foot by the two assessors, 1 page, oblong 8vo, 17 June 1766; (ii) related Bill of Sale for Harlequin, Prosper, Violet and child, evidently an office copy, 1 page, folio, Jamaica, 31 January 1767; (iii) "A List of Slaves taken and Valued on Fish River Estate the Property of Peter Campbell Jun.r Esquire July 21st 1794", listing twenty-eight souls under name, status ("Mid Aged Man"), function (whether field, house, stable or cook), and value (from £15 for a child to £70 for an able young man), with an attestation in the hand of David Innes, and signed by him and his fellow assessor, John Luill, with a postscript noting subsequent deaths and births, 1 page, minor wear, folio, Fish River Estate, 21 July 1794; (iv) "List of Negroes -- on Sale – Payable in England 6 Years from date of Conveyance", comprising 65 souls, with name, inter-relationships, and price of each given, including (at £160 each) "Coromantee Prince" and "Congo Prince", with a further twenty slaves offered under lease, expiring October 1804, and a further eleven slaves belonging to Mrs Stone and offered under a seven-to-eleven year lease, docketed with financial calculations, 4 pages, minor dust-staining, folio, watermarked 1799; (v) Copy by Farrer & Co of the conveyance of Holland Plantation, Jamaica, from Peter Campbell senior and junior, to Richard Shawe, 16 pages, secured with chancery tape, 4to, original dated 11 February 1802; (vi) Set of legal briefs anent John Campbell of Orange Bay and Patrick Campbell of Fish River and disputed rentals of the Lacovia estates in Jamaica, the lease of which was granted to Lachlan McLachlan by Colonel Hodges in 1757, c.1810; (vii) Group of some 15 letters by Peter Campbell's daughter, Elisa, Lady Orde, to her cousin Lady Stratheden, 1818-20; (viii) File of correspondence between Sir John Orde, Principal Campbell of Aberdeen University, the Aberdeen Granite Works, and others, regarding the erection of a tombstone to Peter Campbell at Petersville, Westmoreland, Jamaica, 1861-77