These documents, two manuscript and one printed, concern a dispute over the profit sharing due under a lease of the Skerretts plantation near St. John in Antigua. The lawsuit began in 1809; the last document here, an official handwritten report from the Court at Windsor (10 pages), referring the case.....
Price: $750
A 1-1/2-page manuscript document arranging the sale of the Road Estate (also known as the Road or Cades Bay Plantation) in Antigua for £6,200. This original document is signed by the seller, Valentine Morris, and the buyer, Dr. John Brooks. The Roads Plantation is not described in this document, but.....
Price: $750
![Item No: #364046 [West Indies] Autograph Letter Signed Expressing His Interest...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364046.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717775208)
A 1-1/2 page manuscript letter from a former governor of the Leeward Islands expressing interest in succeeding Thomas Shirley in the position. The Leeward Islands include Antigua, St. Kitts, the Virgin Islands, and other British colonies. The writer had been governor from 1766 to 1771, governor of Antigua for twenty.....
Price: $400
A 2-1/2 page manuscript letter from an Antiguan slave owner and planter to an unnamed recipient, probably an M.P. or government minister, about personnel issues on the Council of Antigua, of which McKinnen was a member. The letter was written while McKinnen was visiting Wales. The first matter related to.....
Price: $750
![Item No: #364032 [Jamaica] A Schedule of Deeds & Papers Delivered by John Blake...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364032.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717775208)
A manuscript calendar of legal actions concerning a plantation in Jamaica consisting of "several Penns Lands Mess'ges Tenem[en]ts Slaves & real Est[at]e in Jamaica under the Will of Alger Pestell deceased. The list of dates and events begins in 1763 and continues through 1777, encompassing several generations of Bryan Edwards's.....
Price: $500
![Item No: #364030 [Jamaica] [Fair Copy of a Well Known Will Making Provisions for...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364030.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717775209)
A contemporary fair manuscript copy of a seven-page will that has been reprinted and cited a number of times for its explicit acknowledgment of the author's "four Quadroon children" born to a formerly enslaved woman, Betty Grant, who the author bought and emancipated. This copy is docketed and designated for.....
Price: $1,500
![Item No: #364029 [Antigua] Autograph Letter, Signed, to Anthony Browne about the...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364029.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717775210)
A three-page manuscript letter (on a single large sheet folded to make four pages) responding to a request for information about the family and land holdings of the ancestors of one Anthony Browne (of London). The letter is densely written with more than forty lines per page in a very.....
Price: $500
![Item No: #364028 [Antigua Freehold Sugar Estates Auction] In the Island of...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364028.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1717775210)
First Edition. A large (folio) auction catalog of sugar plantations and other properties in Antigua, with descriptions of the properties as well as large fold-out maps, with pink handcoloring, of the sites. This scarce printed description of several well-known sugar plantations provides details about the property, its cultivation, and the.....
Price: $1,250
