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Barbados. North and Central America - Barbados. Island. Longitude: -59.5333. Latitude: 13.1667.

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Medical Journal of Dr Normand Morison.

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Identifier: MS.50263
Scope and Contents A recipe for gunpowder (folio i).Case notes, 1729-1730, possibly written at Glasgow Infirmary (folios 1-19).Sketch financial accounts and copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to Normand MacLeod, Daniel MacLeod and John Nicolson concerning the export of linen and import of tobacco, sugar and rum between New England, Glasgow and the Western Isles (folios 20-28).Copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to unnamed relatives concerning emigration from the...
Dates: 1729-1759.

Transcript of the journals of John Mair.

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Identifier: MS.50267
Content Description Details concerning Mair’s travels from London to the West Indies via Madeira, during which he visited Barbados, Tobago, Grenada, the Grenadines, St Vincent, St Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Dominica, and his purchase of an estate and enslaved people in Dominica (folios 1-15). Particulars concerning Mair’s return journey from Dominica to London, the impact of Britain’s conflict with France and America on British colonies in the Caribbean and details of Mair’s plantation...
Dates: 1776-1791.