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Lot 197
[JAMAICA & WEST INDIES] Group of seven autograph letters signed and documents of Jamaica and Barbados interest.
Includes BALCARRES, ALEXANDER LINDSAY, 6th Earl, Governor of Jamaica Autograph letter signed, dated July 13, 1799, from Jamaica; TRELAWNY, WILLIAM, Governor of Jamaica. Document signed. An appointment for Peter Ramsay as Register of the High Court of Chancery of the island, 2 June 1772; TOWNSHEND, THOMAS, 1st Viscount Sydney. Secretarial letter signed from Whitehall, 26th April, 1785, to Lieutenant Governor Clarke of Jamaica, regarding various matters of state, and his own future in his post (he remained Lieutenant Governor until 1791, when he was appointed Lieutenant-governor of the new province of Lower Canada and commander of British forces in North America); COCHRANE, ALEXANDER, Admiral Autograph letter signed, dated 20th June, 1806 (marked "duplicate"), regarding reporting on his navigation, vessels encountered etc. in the West Indies after leaving Barbados. It was commonplace to issue more than one such letter, given the vicissitudes of naval mail; BECKWITH, GEORGE, Governor Autograph letter signed, London 7th December 1814, in explanation of certain charges made in his capacity as Governor of Barbados; SAVAGE, WILLIAM. Extensive autograph letter signed from Kingston, Jamaica, October 15th 1803 to Representative William Eustis of Massachusetts, regarding American interests on the island, etc. Savage was a member of an American merchant family active in the West Indies; AIKMAN, ALEXANDER. Autograph letter signed, January 14th 1803, pertaining to transcripts of the minutes of the Council of Jamaica. Alexander Aikman (23 June 1755 - 6 July 1838) was a Scottish printer, newspaper publisher, planter, and member of Jamaica's House of Assembly. All of the above with usual folds, occasional wear, minor soiling, some dogearing etc.
An interesting miscellaneous group of documents pertaining to Jamaica and the West Indies generally.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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