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Entire letter from Nightingale House near Spanishtown Jamaica, 12th Feb 1776 to London. Via His Majestys Packet The Grantham, IAMAICA black ink stamp postmark, bishop mark in circle 3 / IV, red wax seal. To Alexander and James Brander Esqrs Merchants Thames Street, London. ‘Came to hand 3 June’. From Sgd Geo. Innes.
Full transcript:
Nightingale House near Spanish Town Jamaica 12 Feb. 1776. Came to hand 3 June 1776.
Nightingale House.
12th. Feb. 1776.
Gentlemen,
The intention of this, is that you will be so good to forward the enclosed letter to my Father immediately, so as your Correspondent at Elgin may forward the same to him in due course, that no time may be lost in his taking passage for London, and from thence to Kingston Jamaica. He now being the only surviving Excer. of my Uncle, and his being on the spot is become most absolutely necessary.
Indeed I thought to have been in Great Britain before this time, but I find I can't till my Father is here. For I want much to bring my Uncle's property to a sale, but it can't be done without his concurrence, for tho the debts are all paid I am only an Excer in right of my wife, and only half concerned. I have wrote him he needs no other clothes than what he uses at home, and that any Captain at the Jamaica Coffee House will give him a passage telling him that he's my Father; and any little money that you may advance to the amount of £20 or £30 Stg. I shall thankfully acknowledge and be forthcoming to you, And as to his passage that can be paid when he arrives here. My Fathers destination I mean to be a secret, till he sails from London
I have left my Fathers letter open that
you may know the necessity.
I respectfully remain Gentlemen
Your most obediant servant.
Sgd. Geo Innes.
(NB: Info on a Geo Innes. Is Mentioned in: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/
As a slave owner at Jamaica Hanover 485 claimant (for reparations for two slaves (?)) 25th Jan 1836 | 2 Enslaved | £58 2s 8d.
Provenance: A private collection of early letters and handstamps, property of a gentleman, including Great Britain postal history / British Colonies and Empire postal history, coffee, sugar plantations, maritime interest, slavery letters, emancipation, manumission, Jamaica.
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