PLANTATION LIFE IN THE CARIBBEAN
Part 1: Jamaica, c1765-1848: The Taylor and Vanneck-Arcedekne Papers from Cambridge University Library and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
University of London
The Taylor and Vanneck-Arcedekne Papers from Cambridge University Library
(Reels 1-7)
VANNECK – ARC/3: JAMAICAN ESTATE PAPERS
REEL 1
Typescript Handlist (4pp)
VANNECK – ARC/3A: Correspondence and Papers of West Indian Agents, c1765-1848.
(material organised chronologically by date)
Simon Taylor (Correspondence and Papers for 1765-1781)
1765 - items 1-18
1767 - items 1-20
1768 - items 1-12
1769 - items 1-12
1770 - items 1-12
1771 - items 1-9
1773 - items 1-40
1774 - items 1-13
1775 - items 1-16
1781 - items 1-31
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Simon Taylor (Correspondence and Papers for 1782-1788)
1782 - items 1-49
1783 - items 1-43
1784 - items 1-2
1786 - items 1-25
1787 - items 1-20
1788 - items 1-29
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Simon Taylor (Correspondence and Papers for 1789-1793)
1789 - items 1-31
1790 - items 1-49
1791 - items 1-23
1792 - items 1-19
1793 - items 1-34
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Simon Taylor (Correspondence and Papers for 1794-1800)
1794 - items 1-23
1795 - item 1
1796 - items 1-22
1797 - item 1
1798 - items 1-33
1799 - items 1-26
1800 - items 1-26
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Simon Taylor (Correspondence and Papers for 1801-1813)
1801 - items 1-34
1803 - items 1-4
1811 - item 1
1812 - item 1
1813 - item 1
J Shand, Thomas McCornock and William Winton (Correspondence and Papers for 1813-1848)
1813 - item 2
1814 - item 1
1815 - item 1
1818 - item 1
1823 - item 1
1832 - item 1
1834 - item 1
1835 - item 1
1848 - items 1-2
VANNECK – ARC/3B: Correspondence and Papers on West Indian Business,
from London Agents, Long, Drake & Long and others, c1779-1848.
(223 items, organised chronologically by date)
Correspondence and Papers for c1779-1798
nd - item 1
1779 - items 1-4
1780 - items 1-5
1784 - items 1-2
1791 - item 1
1792 - item 1
1794 - item 1
1796 - item 1
1797 - item 1
1798 - items 1-51
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Correspondence and Papers for 1799-1848
1799 - items 1-67
1802 - item 1
1803 - items 1-33
1804 - items 1-24
1805 - items 1-5
1811 - item 1
1815 - items 1-2
1816 - items 1-3
1817 - items 1-11
1820 - items 1-7
1848 - items 1-2
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VANNECK – ARC/3C: Accounts and Papers on West Indian Business,
from West Indian Agents and London Agents, 1772-1848.
(65 items, comprising one large bundle of papers)
These items relate to:
Long, Drake & Co
Long, Drake & Long
Simon Taylor
Long & Dawkins
Thomas McCornock
William Beckford
William Winton
(Please note that some Accounts are found with the correspondence in 3A and 3B)
VANNECK – ARC/3D: Correspondence of John Renwick, Captain of Ships sailing to Jamaica, writing to Chaloner Arcedekne.
(24 items)
VANNECK – ARC/3E:
Letters of Robert Taylor to Chaloner Arcedekne on disagreement between
John Renwick and Simon Taylor, and Renwick’s giving up management of shipping, 1803.
(5 items)
Letter of 29 November 1804: Robert Taylor to Chaloner Arcedekne on share in new ship
‘Forty Second’.
(1 item)
VANNECK – ARC/3F: Legal Papers: Jamaican Business
comprising depositions and other records; the final item is a copy of the report on the case of Arcedekne v Beeston Long concerning slaves on Jamaican estates, February 1821.
(18 items)
VANNECK – ARC/3G: Miscellaneous Papers: Jamaican Business
including pamphlets and observations on plantation life, negro slaves in Jamaica, property in West Indies, c1761-1799, as well as a list of salaries of ‘White people’ on Arcedekne’s Jamaica estate, nd, and a letter with an opinion on Simon Taylor’s management of Jamaican business.
(8 items)
The Taylor Family Papers from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
University of London (Reels 8-17)
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I Simon Taylor Letter Books
I A-I (468 items
July 1779-July 1785,
December 1797-May 1801,
August 1801-January 1806,
March 1806-June 1808
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I Simon Taylor Letter Books
I J - April 1810-May 1812
(56 items)
At the end of the last volume there are lists of stock on Golden Grove Estate and on Batchelor Hall - January 1809-January 1810
(3 items)
II Sir John Taylor’s Letter Books and Letters
II A Copies by Sir John Taylor of letters from Simon Taylor - March 1771-December 1782
(66 items)
II B Copies by Sir John Taylor of letters to Simon Taylor - February 1779-August 1784
(57 items)
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II C Original Letters from Sir John Taylor while in Jamaica to Simon Taylor - January 1784,
(11 items) - May 1785- July 1785
II D Miscellaneous - September 1777, 1784?, nd
(3 items)
III Lady Elizabeth Haughton Taylor
III A Lady Taylor to Simon Taylor - October 1792-July 1805
(20 items)
III B Simon Taylor to Lady Taylor - July 1786-December 1797
(39 items)
III C Miscellaneous letters and documents - August 1793-February 1822
(8 items)
IV Neil Malcolm
IV A Neil Malcolm to Simon Taylor - March 1793-September 1794
(10 items)
IV B Simon Taylor to Neil Malcolm - February 1788-May 1794
(9 items)
V Correspondence between Richard Brissett and Simon Taylor
and Charles and William Mitchell - September 1789-July 1790
(10 items)
VI Simon Richard Brissett Taylor
VI A Simon Richard Brissett Taylor to Simon Taylor - August 1792-November 1812
(113 items)
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VI B Correspondence with Robert Taylor - October 1798-January 1812
(15 items)
VI C Miscellaneous letters - June 1798-June 1814
(13 items)
VII Anna Susanna Taylor
VII A Simon Taylor to Anna Susanna Taylor - April 1787-March 1810
(24 items)
VII B Reports on her estates from John Cooper - January 1835-April 1835
(4 items)
VIII George Watson Taylor
VIII A George Watson Taylor to John Shand - September 1815-May 1818
(12 items)
VIII B John Shand to George Watson Taylor - August 1815-July 1819
(36 items)
VIII C George Watson Taylor to others
on behalf of John Shand - September 1816-October 1816
(3 items)
VIII D George Watson Taylor to William Shand - January 1816-August 1819
(24 items)
VIII E William Shand to George Watson Taylor - January 1819-March 1824
(14 items)
IX Elizabeth Taylor Mayne and William Mayne
IX A Simon Taylor to Elizabeth Taylor Mayne - March 1798
(1 item)
IX B Elizabeth Taylor Mayne to Simon Taylor - October 1797-August 1808
(13 items)
IX C William Mayne to Simon Taylor - July 1804-December 1805
(3 items)
IX D William Mayne to Robert Taylor - October 1811
(1 item)
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X Robert (Bontine) Graham and Anne Taylor Graham
X A Robert Graham to Simon Taylor - April 1774-November 1797
(117 items)
X B Robert Graham to Sir John Taylor - March, June 1786
(2 items)
X C Miscellaneous - October 1778- December 1797
(5 items)
X D Anne Graham - February, March 1779
(2 items)
XI Nicol Graham
XI A Nicol Graham to Simon Taylor - April 1793-December 1808
(23 items)
XI B Miscellaneous - December 1804
(1 item)
XII Martha Graham Spiers
XII A Martha Graham Spiers to Simon Taylor - November 1792-October 1812
(47 items)
XII B Alexander Spiers to Simon Taylor - July 1807, nd
(2 items)
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XIII Robert Taylor
XIII A Robert Taylor to Simon Taylor
Letters 1-200 - December 1791-June 1804
(200 items)
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XIII A Robert Taylor to Simon Taylor
Letters 201-327 - July 1804-June 1813
(126 items)
XIII B Simon Taylor to Robert Taylor - July 1794- January 1813
(36 items)
XIII C William McCulloch to Robert Taylor
Copied or sent on to Simon Taylor - January 1801-January 1805
Plus one letter from William McCulloch to Simon Taylor - March 1803
(25 items)
XIII D Miscellaneous - November 1797-May 1816
(7 items)
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XIV John Taylor
XIV A John Taylor to Simon Taylor - June 1781-February 1810
(198 items)
XIV B Simon Taylor to John Taylor - July 1794-February 1797
(7 items)
XIV C Miscellaneous
(3 items) - September 1790, December 1798,June 1802
XV Thomas Fry of St John’s College, Oxford
XV A Thomas Fry to Simon Taylor - August-October 1770
(3 items)
XV B Thomas Fry to Simon Taylor - August 1770
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XVI Richard Grant
XVI A Richard Grant to Simon Taylor - November 1793-February 1810
(40 items)
XVI B Simon Taylor to Richard Grant - October 1793-March 1796
(18 items)
XVI C Miscellaneous
(3 items) - August 1794,
December 1760, nd
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XVII George Hibbert
XVII A George Hibbert to Simon Taylor - August 1791-June 1809
(92 items)
XVII B Miscellaneous
(3 items) - April 1796, September 1805, May 1816
XVIII William Sleigh
XVIII A William Sleigh to Simon Taylor - August 1794-January 1796
(4 items)
XVIII B Simon Taylor to William Sleigh - November 1794-October 1795
(3 items)
XIX Tharp Family
XIX A John Tharp to Simon Taylor - February 1791-March 1801
(10 items)
XIX B Miscellaneous
(3 items) - August 1790, July 1792, August 1797
XX Miscellaneous
XX A Letters to Simon Taylor - July 1782-February 1789, nd
(6 items)
XX B Letters from Simon Taylor - March 1785-September 1787
(10 items)
XX C Miscellaneous - November 1796
(2 items)
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