Jamaica. North and Central America - Jamaica. Island. Longitude: -77.5000 . Latitude: 18.2500 .
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Medical Journal of Dr Normand Morison.
File
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.
Miscellaneous notes and papers, including notes of Esther Barbara Chalmers concerning experiences of her father in West Africa and Jamaica., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8695/98
Scope and Contents
Contains:
Notes of Esther Barbara Chalmers concerning the early history of Cape Coast, Ghana.
A transcription of some of the letters of her father Sir David Chalmers concerning his stay in Jamaica in 1893, one containing his description of his ascent of the Blue Mountain Peak.
Miscellaneous papers, some relating to 'Out of the green box', the family history by Esther Barbara Chalmers.
Story of the acquaintance of Sir David Chalmers with the 'Princess' while working in The Gambia.
Some rough...
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.
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Personal papers and correspondence of Esther Barbara Chalmers, including some of her sisters and friends.
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Notes and drafts of Esther Barbara Chalmers concerning family history.
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Notes, drafts and other papers concerning the history of the Chalmers family.
Transcript of the journals of John Mair.
File
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.