PLANTATION LIFE IN THE CARRIBEAN

Part 1: Jamaica c.1765-1848: The Taylor and Vanneck-Arcedekne Papers from Cambridge University Library and the Institue of Commonwealth Studies, University of London

Contents of Reels

The Taylor and Vanneck-Arcedekne Papers from Cambridge University Library (Reels 1-7)

VANNECK – ARC/3: JAMAICAN ESTATE PAPERS

REEL 1

Typescript Handlist (4pp)

VANNECK – ARC/3A: Correspondence and Papers of West Indian Agents, c1765-1848.
(material organised chronologically by date)

Simon Taylor (Correspondence and Papers for 1765-1781)

1765 items 1-18
1767 items 1-20
1768 items 1-12
1769 items 1-12
1770 items 1-12
1771 items 1-9
1773 items 1-40
1774 items 1-13
1775 items 1-16
1781 items 1-31

REEL 2

Simon Taylor (Correspondence and Papers for 1782-1788)

1782 items 1-49
1783 items 1-43
1784 items 1-2
1786 items 1-25
1787 items 1-20
1788 items 1-29

REEL 3

Simon Taylor (Correspondence and Papers for 1789-1793)

1789 items 1-31
1790 items 1-49
1791 items 1-23
1792 items 1-19
1793 items 1-34

REEL 4

Simon Taylor (Correspondence and Papers for 1794-1800)

1794 items 1-23
1795 item 1
1796 items 1-22
1797 item 1
1798 items 1-33
1799 items 1-26
1800 items 1-26

REEL 5

Simon Taylor (Correspondence and Papers for 1801-1813)

1801 items 1-34
1803 items 1-4
1811 item 1
1812 item 1
1813 item 1

J Shand, Thomas McCornock and William Winton (Correspondence and Papers for 1813-1848)

1813 item 2
1814 item 1
1815 item 1
1818 item 1
1823 item 1
1832 item 1
1834 item 1
1835 item 1
1848 items 1-2

VANNECK – ARC/3B: Correspondence and Papers on West Indian Business, from London Agents, Long, Drake & Long and others, c1779-1848.
(223 items, organised chronologically by date)

Correspondence and Papers for c1779-1798

nd item 1
1779 items 1-4
1780 items 1-5
1784 items 1-2
1791 item 1
1792 item 1
1794 item 1
1796 item 1
1797 item 1
1798 items 1-51

REEL 6

Correspondence and Papers for 1799-1848

1799 items 1-67
1802 item 1
1803 items 1-33
1804 items 1-24
1805 items 1-5
1811 item 1
1815 items 1-2
1816 items 1-3
1817 items 1-11
1820 items 1-7
1848 items 1-2

REEL 7

VANNECK – ARC/3C: Accounts and Papers on West Indian Business, from West Indian Agents and London Agents, 1772-1848.
(65 items, comprising one large bundle of papers)

These items relate to:

Long, Drake & Co
Long, Drake & Long
Simon Taylor
Long & Dawkins
Thomas McCornock
William Beckford
William Winton

(Please note that some Accounts are found with the correspondence in 3A and 3B)

VANNECK – ARC/3D: Correspondence of John Renwick, Captain of Ships sailing to Jamaica, writing to Chaloner Arcedekne.
(24 items)

VANNECK – ARC/3E:
Letters of Robert Taylor to Chaloner Arcedekne on disagreement between John Renwick and Simon Taylor, and Renwick’s giving up management of shipping, 1803.
(5 items)

Letter of 29 November 1804: Robert Taylor to Chaloner Arcedekne on share in new ship
‘Forty Second’.
(1 item)

VANNECK – ARC/3F: Legal Papers: Jamaican Business comprising depositions and other records; the final item is a copy of the report on the case of Arcedekne v Beeston Long concerning slaves on Jamaican estates, February 1821.
(18 items)

VANNECK – ARC/3G: Miscellaneous Papers: Jamaican Business including pamphlets and observations on plantation life, negro slaves in Jamaica, property in West Indies, c1761-1799, as well as a list of salaries of ‘White people’ on Arcedekne’s Jamaica estate, nd, and a letter with an opinion on Simon Taylor’s management of Jamaican business.
(8 items)

The Taylor Family Papers from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London

(Reels 8-17)

REEL 8

I Simon Taylor Letter Books

I A-I (468 items) July 1779-July 1785,
December 1797-May 1801,
August 1801-January 1806,
March 1806-June 1808

REEL 9

I Simon Taylor Letter Books

I J April 1810-May 1812
(56 items)
At the end of the last volume there are lists of stock on Golden Grove Estate and on Batchelor Hall January 1809-January 1810
(3 items)

II Sir John Taylor’s Letter Books and Letters

II A Copies by Sir John Taylor of letters from Simon Taylor March 1771-December 1782
(66 items)

II B Copies by Sir John Taylor of letters to Simon Taylor February 1779-August 1784
(57 items)

REEL 10

II C Original Letters from Sir John Taylor while in Jamaica to Simon Taylor January 1784,
(11 items) May 1785- July 1785

II D Miscellaneous September 1777, 1784?, nd
(3 items)

III Lady Elizabeth Haughton Taylor

III A Lady Taylor to Simon Taylor October 1792-July 1805
(20 items)

III B Simon Taylor to Lady Taylor July 1786-December 1797
(39 items)

III C Miscellaneous letters and documents August 1793-February 1822
(8 items)

IV Neil Malcolm

IV A Neil Malcolm to Simon Taylor March 1793-September 1794
(10 items)

IV B Simon Taylor to Neil Malcolm February 1788-May 1794
(9 items)

V Correspondence between Richard Brissett and Simon Taylor and Charles and William Mitchell September 1789-July 1790
(10 items)

VI Simon Richard Brissett Taylor

VI A Simon Richard Brissett Taylor to Simon Taylor August 1792-November 1812
(113 items)

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VI B Correspondence with Robert Taylor October 1798-January 1812
(15 items)

VI C Miscellaneous letters June 1798-June 1814
(13 items)

VII Anna Susanna Taylor

VII A Simon Taylor to Anna Susanna Taylor April 1787-March 1810
(24 items)

VII B Reports on her estates from John Cooper January 1835-April 1835
(4 items)

VIII George Watson Taylor

VIII A George Watson Taylor to John Shand September 1815-May 1818
(12 items)

VIII B John Shand to George Watson Taylor August 1815-July 1819
(36 items)

VIII C George Watson Taylor to others on behalf of John Shand September 1816-October 1816
(3 items)

VIII D George Watson Taylor to William Shand January 1816-August 1819
(24 items)

VIII E William Shand to George Watson Taylor January 1819-March 1824
(14 items)

IX Elizabeth Taylor Mayne and William Mayne

IX A Simon Taylor to Elizabeth Taylor Mayne March 1798
(1 item)

IX B Elizabeth Taylor Mayne to Simon Taylor October 1797-August 1808
(13 items)

IX C William Mayne to Simon Taylor July 1804-December 1805
(3 items)

IX D William Mayne to Robert Taylor October 1811
(1 item)

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X Robert (Bontine) Graham and Anne Taylor Graham

X A Robert Graham to Simon Taylor April 1774-November 1797
(117 items)

X B Robert Graham to Sir John Taylor March, June 1786
(2 items)

X C Miscellaneous October 1778- December 1797
(5 items)

X D Anne Graham February, March 1779
(2 items)

XI Nicol Graham

XI A Nicol Graham to Simon Taylor April 1793-December 1808
(23 items)

XI B Miscellaneous December 1804
(1 item)

XII Martha Graham Spiers

XII A Martha Graham Spiers to Simon Taylor November 1792-October 1812
(47 items)

XII B Alexander Spiers to Simon Taylor July 1807, nd
(2 items)

REEL 13

XIII Robert Taylor

XIII A Robert Taylor to Simon Taylor Letters 1-200 December 1791-June 1804
(200 items)

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XIII A Robert Taylor to Simon Taylor Letters 201-327 July 1804-June 1813
(126 items)

XIII B Simon Taylor to Robert Taylor July 1794- January 1813
(36 items)

XIII C William McCulloch to Robert Taylor
Copied or sent on to Simon Taylor January 1801-January 1805
Plus one letter from William McCulloch to Simon Taylor March 1803
(25 items)

XIII D Miscellaneous November 1797-May 1816
(7 items)

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XIV John Taylor

XIV A John Taylor to Simon Taylor June 1781-February 1810
(198 items)

XIV B Simon Taylor to John Taylor July 1794-February 1797
(7 items)

XIV C Miscellaneous
(3 items) September 1790, December 1798
June 1802

XV Thomas Fry of St John’s College, Oxford

XV A Thomas Fry to Simon Taylor August-October 1770
(3 items)

XV B Thomas Fry to Simon Taylor August 1770
(1 item)

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XVI Richard Grant

XVI A Richard Grant to Simon Taylor November 1793-February 1810
(40 items)

XVI B Simon Taylor to Richard Grant October 1793-March 1796
(18 items)

XVI C Miscellaneous
(3 items) August 1794, December 1760, nd

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XVII George Hibbert

XVII A George Hibbert to Simon Taylor August 1791-June 1809
(92 items)

XVII B Miscellaneous
(3 items) April 1796, September 1805, May 1816

XVIII William Sleigh

XVIII A William Sleigh to Simon Taylor August 1794-January 1796
(4 items)

XVIII B Simon Taylor to William Sleigh November 1794-October 1795
(3 items)

XIX Tharp Family

XIX A John Tharp to Simon Taylor February 1791-March 1801
(10 items)

XIX B Miscellaneous
(3 items) August 1790, July 1792, August 1797

XX Miscellaneous

XX A Letters to Simon Taylor July 1782-February 1789, nd
(6 items)

XX B Letters from Simon Taylor March 1785-September 1787
(10 items)

XX C Miscellaneous November 1796
(2 items)

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