Dominica. North and Central America - Dominica. Island. Longitude: -61.3333. Latitude: 15.5000.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Holograph copy letter of Alexander Cochrane-Johnstone to Sir George Canning., 1826.
Item
Identifier: MS.50277 folios 83-87
Scope and Contents
Concerning expenses incurred by Cochrane-Johnstone during his tenure as Governor of Dominica to provide asylum for French residents of Guadeloupe during a rebellion of enslaved people
Dates:
1826.
Holograph copy letter of Alexander Cochrane-Johnstone to Sir George Canning., 1826
Item
Identifier: MS.50277 folios 88-91
Scope and Contents
Concerning expenses incurred by Cochrane-Johnstone as governor of Dominica to provide asylum for French residents of Guadeloupe.
Dates:
1826
Letters from George Rose to Sir John Orde concerning the governorship of Dominica.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13685
Scope and Contents
The correspondence chiefly relates to the governorship of Dominica under Sir John Orde.
Dates:
1784-1808
Letters of Jane Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, and Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone., Before 1819-1826.
Series
Identifier: MS.50277 folios 81-91
Scope and Contents
Letter, undated, of the Countess of Dundonald to her son Captain Alexander Cochrane concerning a child’s health, with holograph copy letters of Alexander Cochrane-Johnstone to Sir George Canning concerning expenses incurred in his capacity as Govenror of Dominica to give asylum to French people resident in Guadeloupe during a rebellion.
Dates:
Before 1819-1826.
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.