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Pease, John (cloth merchant of Leeds, Yorkshire)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1775 - 1808

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Notebooks containing 'Resolutions, Remarks, Minutes, Observations, and Travelling Memorandum' made on a journey from Newcastle into Scotland by coach and on horseback during the winter of 1795-1796.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6319-6321
Scope and Contents

The record stops abruptly soon after the commencement of the third volume, on 14 January, when the writer is passing Blair [Atholl]. This English traveller has been identified as John Pease (1775-1808) of the Quaker family of Pease, cloth merchants in Leeds, by Peter Barber, who has printed the full text in 'Journal of a traveller in Scotland', in 'Scottish Historical Review', volume xxxvi (1957).

Dates: 1795-1796.