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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

REEL 2

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

REEL 3

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

REEL 4

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

REEL 5

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

REEL 6

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

REEL 7

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)

 

REEL 8

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

REEL 9

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)

REEL 10

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)

REEL 11

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)

REEL 12

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)

REEL 13

XIII Robert Taylor

XIII A Robert Taylor to Simon Taylor

Letters 1-200 - December 1791-June 1804

(200 items)

 

REEL 14

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)

 

REEL 15

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

REEL 16

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

 

REEL 17

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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