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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

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Concerning expenses incurred by Cochrane-Johnstone as governor of Dominica to provide asylum for French residents of Guadeloupe.

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Concerning Jane Cochrane’s arrival in the Caribbean.

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Concerning French naval movements in the Caribbean and preparations for a ball.

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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.

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Letters concerning life in the West Indies, Guadeloupe and Sir Alexander Cochrane`s governorship of the latter.

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...