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Tobago. North and Central America - Trinidad and Tobago. Island. Longitude: -60.6667. Latitude: 11.2500.

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Lease and release of part of the Higher Plantation, Tobago (including named enslaved people) in favour of William Marshall, Glasgow.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50269-50270
Scope and Contents

Lease and release, 1774, of John Young and John Macrae concerning the conveyance of part of Higher Plantation, Tobago, in favour of William Marshall.

Dates: 1774

Lease of part of the Higher Plantation in favour of William Marshall, Glasgow., 1774.

 File
Identifier: MS.50269
Scope and Contents

Lease, 1774, of John Young and John Macrae concerning the conveyance of part of higher Plantation, Tobago, in favour of William Marshall (folio 1).

Dates: 1774.

Release of part of the Higher Plantation in favour of William Marshall, Glasgow., 1774.

 File
Identifier: MS.50270.
Scope and Contents

Release, 1774, of John Young and John Macrae concenring the conveyance of part of Higher Plantation, Tobago, including named enslaved people, in favour of William Marshall (folios 1-4).

Dates: 1774.

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.