Great Britain -- Colonies -- America
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
American Revolutionary War collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 674
Abstract:
An artificial collection of correspondence, payrolls, pay tables, receipts, commissions, and miscellanea including documents from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina military forces.
Dates:
1775-1786
William Blathwayt papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 2
Abstract:
The papers contain correspondence, newsletters, diplomatic papers, and reports documenting Blathwayt's career and English foreign policy and history in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Dates:
1646-1796, bulk 1668-1703
Thomas Thistlewood papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 176
Scope and Contents:
The papers consist of diaries, weather journals, commonplace books, reading notes and other material documenting the life, work and intellectual interests of the Jamaican plantation overseer and slaveowner Thomas Thistlewood. This highly detailed record of his activities as an overseer and later owner of numerous slaves contains information on his criteria for the purchase and sale of slaves, methods of assigning work, allotment of provisions, the illness and death rate among them, and...
Dates:
1748-1792