Tobago 1808

Includes letters and journals from: Richard Elliot, Barbardoes [Barbados] and Tobago Richard Elliott, preaches on estates to enslaved Africans, and in Scarborough town; wishes to be joined by wife; also visits Chinese and Indians. Costs of missionary residence had caused both Moravians and Wesleyans...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/West Indies. Tobago/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
Date(s) of creation: 2 Apr - 7 Dec 1808
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.12.02.01.002
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/West Indies. Tobago/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
callnumber CWM/LMS/12/02/01/002
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/12/02/01/002
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/12/02/01/002
prefix_number 002
title Tobago 1808
scb_date_creation 2 Apr - 7 Dec 1808
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 7 items
format Archive
description Includes letters and journals from: Richard Elliot, Barbardoes [Barbados] and Tobago Richard Elliott, preaches on estates to enslaved Africans, and in Scarborough town; wishes to be joined by wife; also visits Chinese and Indians. Costs of missionary residence had caused both Moravians and Wesleyans to leave Tobago; Scotch Presbyterian society started which hired a place of worship and will give him salary. Visits Friendship estate, Golden Grove estate, Richmond estate, Bacolet estate, Cove estate, Riceland, Indian Walk [later Moriah - see Moravian records for 1842]
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number Folder 1, Jackets A and B
scb_finding_aids A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence for Tobago, 1807-1813, (list C2), is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library. NB pages 3 and 4 of this hand-list are bound in reverse order.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0012.0002.0001.00002