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OLD NEWS OF ST. VINCENT
The Virginia Gazette of 16 July 1767:
By Capt. DARRELL, from St. Vincent’s, we learn that the English settlements on that island proceed with a good deal of life and vigour, and that it bids fair to be one of the most flourishing islands in the West Indies. Above 100 hhds. of sugar have been made on it this last season, and it is supposed above ten times as much will be produced next year. That the commissioners for disposing of the Crown lands in the new ceded islands, having finished that business at Dominica, had come down to St. Vincent’s a short time before Capt. DARRELL left it, and were upon disposing of the remainder of the land that was left unsold before. Lands near the chief town had been last year sold at above 50l. sterling an acre; the best of those in the remote parts of the island now sold at about 25l. an acre; and the rocky and mountainous parts, with nothing but woods and stones on them, sold from about 3 to 5l. an acre, according to the sitiuation thereof; and great numbers of new plantations were every day improving, with all possible diligence. A civil government was lately established there, in the same manner as it has heretofore been in the other English islands, and every measure taken to render the inhabitants as secure as any other of his Majesty’s subjects.
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The Virginia Gazette of 14 January 1773 - (St. Vincent, 03 October 1772) - First Carib War:
On Monday last, as a Party of the thirty second Regiment was marching to join the Troops encamped near Niamboo River, they were attacked by the Caraibs from amongst the Bushes. A great many of the Savages were killed and wounded; of the King’s Troops a Corporal and four Men were killed and wounded, and a Negro who attended them was likewise killed. It seems that a Frenchman, who was standing upon a Hill adjacent to the Place where the Engagement began, gave the Caraibs the signal when to fire; the Villain at once apprehended, was sent to Kingstown, and put on Board one of his Majesty’s Ships of War, It is to be hoped he will meet with such punishment as is adequate to his Debts (?).
Same Day the Caraibs set Fire to and burnt down the Plantation of Mr. BRUCE (?) at Wachilabean (?), and killed some of his Negroes. One of the Caraibs that delivered himself up last Week to his Excellency the General was found in Arms against his Majesty, and on Wednesday last was hanged at Calliaqua.
Thursday Morning, about nine o’Clock, the Caraibs burnt down the Plantation of Mons. LACROIX, and killed some of his Negroes. Immediately after that barbarous Transaction, they came to the next Estate (Mons. PRADIE’s) with an intent to set it on Fire; but by the Vigilance of a Detachment of the southern Regiment of Militia, under the Command of Captain GLYNN (?), they, after reconsidering (?) the Militia (who were wishing for an Engagement) thought proper to take themselves off to their _________ Place of Abode. Had it not been for the above Detachment being posted at Mons. PRADIE’s, not only his, but every Estate in the Valley of Ouariwaroe (?), would have been destroyed. In the Afternoon a Party of the Troop under the Command of Colonel Harry ALEXANDER joined the Foot (?) commanded by Captain John KENNEDY, and marched to LACROIXs Estate; but none of the Savages appearing, they returned to their Post.Same Day arrived at Calliaqua, from North America, a Transport Ship with tour Companies of the thirteenth Regiment, under the Command of Major Alexander M’KENZIE. The rest of the Transports, with the other Companies, are hourly expected.
It is reported that a Plantation adjacent to Mr. KAIR’s is wholly burnt by the Caraibs. Much Damage has been done by the Savages to several Plantations in the Island, but we have not yet been informed of the Particulars. This morning the Artillery was ordered to proceed to Niamboo River, where the Caraibs have made a strong Intrenchment on the other side. The Troops and Artillery are expected to gain that important Pass on Wednesday next.
His Excellency the General ordered a Transport Vessel for Grenada, in order to bring here the Remainder of the seventieth Regiment.
Several Caraibs, besides some Frenchmen in their Interest, have within these few Days been taken Prisoners by the different Detachments of his Majesty’s Troops and Militia, and sent on Board one of his Majesty’s Ships of War lying in Kingstown Bay.
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St. Vincent Gazette for 27 February 1773:
Those named in the Treaty with the Caribbs, at St. Vincent’s.
On the part of his Majesty: W. DALRYMPLE
On the part of the Caribbs:
Jean Baptiste
Dusant Begot
Boyordell
Dirang
Simon
Lalime senior
Bauamont
Justin Bauamont
Chatoie
Doucre Baramont
Lalime junior
Broca
Saioe
Francois Laron
Saint Laron
Anisetter or Anifetter
Clement
Bigott
Mathieu
Jean Louis Pacquin
Gadel Goibau
John Baptiste
Lonen
Boyndon
Du Valett
Boucharie, Doniba Baoilliard
Cauaia
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The Virginia Gazette of 07 April 1774:
The Virginia Gazette for 07 April 1774 contains an article headlined “St. Vincent, October 23″, which tells of a bill preferred in the island’s high court of chancery against the “honourable Josias JACKSON for non-payment of his majesty’s quitrents, according to the lords of the treasury to the honourable Archibald INGRAM, receiver general of the quitrents”…….”and is dismissed at the request of Mr. JACKSON, paying the debt and costs.” The article further explains that the issue was a disagreement from JACKSON over the Crown’s right regarding “the value of foreign gold passing current in the colony.
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The Edinburgh (Scotland) Advertiser for 07 April 1775 - INDIAN LANDS at ST. VINCENT:
Upon the first day of March 1776, will be exposed to public sale at Kingston, in the Island of St. Vincent, THAT valuable (italics) TRACT OF LAND, lately granted by his Majesty to the Hon. Gen. MONCKTON, on the following conditions, viz
The LAND to be sold for sterling money, one third of the purchase money to be immediately paid in cash, at 75 per cent. exchange, or in such bills of exchange upon Britain, as will be approved of at the time of sale.
The remaining two-thirds (italics) in four equal yearly payments; the first payment to be made on the Ist day of March 1777, upon the Royal Exchange of London, and so on the same day of each following year, till the whole is compleated.
The Land to remain as a security for the payment of the different installments.
Surveyors are to be immediately employed to divide the land into proper lots for plantations, and there will soon be regular plans of the whole made out, and lodged with William CROOKE, and Duncan CAMPBELL, Esqrs. at St. Vincent; Messrs. BAILLIES, FRASER and BAILLE, at St. Kitts; Robert BOGLE, sen and Robert BOGLE, junior, Andrew GRANT, and James BAILLIE, jun. Esqrs. in Granada; and Charlton PALMER, Esq. in Philpot-lane, London, for the inspection of the public. And whoever is desirous of knowing further particulars, will please apply to them.
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Times of London for 20 May 1786:
House of Commons for 19 May 1786
Mr. ROSE moved for several sums of money, for the purchase of certain lands in the Island of St. Vincent’s, and in the Bahamas, for the accommodation of the American Loyalists….The motions passed in the affirmative.
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Times of London for 29 May 1786:
Letters from the island of St. Vincent, dated February 25, mention, that the volcano on the summit of Morn Garou had during the course of the last month burnt with uncommon fury, and destroyed a large plantation in the neighborhood.
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The Royal St. Vincent Gazette and General Advertiser of 11 November 1786:
KINGSTOWN, Nov. 11.
On Thursday evening last his Majesty’s frigate, the Pegasus, under the command of His Royal Highness Prince William Henry, arrived in this Bay, from Halifax, after a passage of sixteen days. Yesterday morning His Royal Highness came on shore, and was received on his landing by Major ROPER and several other officers of his Majesty’s 66th regiment of foot, and the President of his Majesty’s Council. His Royal Highness immediately waited on the Commander in Chief, whose severe indisposition, we are sorry to add, deprived him of seeing his Royal Visitor. His Royal Highness then visited the Garrison, where the 66th regiment was drawn up to receive him, and a Royal Salute was fired. —– His Royal Highness, on his return from the Garrison, was pleased to accept of an invitation to dine with his Majesty’s Council and the General Assembly, this day.
We have pleasure to learn, that His Royal Highness’s stay among us will be some days, which will afford the Inhabitants of this Colony an Opportunity of testifying the loyalty and affection they bear to his Royal Person and Family, and the Joy which an event, so auspicious as His Royal Highness’s arrival, has diffused through all ranks of his Majesty’s Subjects.
This Island may indulge a laudable pride in boasting of its being the first of the Windward Islands that has received a visit from a Prince of the Blood. A Prince, whose high birth is amongst the least of his shining qualities. His Royal Highness’s great professional merit and noble emulation in that service to which he is at once both an honor and an example, renders him the boast of Britons and envy of rival Nations, whilst his early affability and engaging manners endear him to all mankind.
This day the Honorable Council and Assembly of this Government met at the Court-House in this town, pursuant to a summons for that purpose, when it was unanimously resolved to address His Royal Highness Prince William Henry, on his arrival in this Island. The Address, we understand, will be presented to His Royal Highness on Wednesday next; on which day a Public Dinner and a Ball will also be given in Compliment to him.
Whereas the under-mentioned Sums appear to be full due for deficiency of White Servants, agreeable to the Returns taken by his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, in December 1785; Notice is therefore hereby given, that unless the same are paid, on or before the 30th day of this Month, Warrants will be lodged with the Provost Marshal to levy for the amount.
Heirs of FITZHUGH (pound mark) 7 4
Peter GURLEY, 4 10
Heirs of BRAHAN, 5 2
Heirs of Edmund AKERS, 3 12
Heirs of Michael WHITE, 5 14
Benjamin GUMBES, 5 14
Heirs of BAKER, 10 4
Madame La CROIX, 1 4
Minors La CROIX, 6
Proprietors of Cane Garden Estate 14 8
Heirs of Joseph RAMAGE 4 4
Treasurer’s Office, St. Vincent,
November 4, 1786.
Wm ALEXANDER, Treasurer
Just imported and to be sold by
Walter CONINGHAM
Madeira Wine in pipes, hhds. and quarter Casks, Porter in barrels and bottles, hams and cheese, refined sugar, hyson tea, ling-fish and potatoes, butter in sirkins, split pease, pearl barley, ship bread, white ditto in kegs, pickles, mustard, ketchup, India soy, white wine vinegar, basket salt, spices, Huxham’s tincture, Henry’s magnesia, Stoughton’s elixir, Turlington’s balsam, China bowls, ditto mugs, ditto cups and saucers, tea-pots, & c. Irish linen, ditto sheeting, Russia sheeting, India dimity, Nankeen, carded dimity, sattinet, joanet, Russia drab, India chintz, callico gown patterns, humhums, diaper and damask tablecloths, huckaback, bordered handkerchiefs, pullicat ditto, platillees, mens gloves, ounce and stitching thread, Holland tape, brown linen, flaxen Osnaburg, 1/4 check, 1/8 ditto, mens white and black hats. Cordovan boots, mens shoes, ladies fine Morocco and Callimanco ditto, young ladies ditto, ladies cotton and thread stockings, mens ditto rib’d and plain, dressing glasses, wood and iron hoops, rivets, truss hoops, oats, lime, ladles and skimmers, brass-wire sugar strainers, hoes and bills, cutlasses, guaging-rods and babbles, lamp and paint oil, brass butt and wine cocks, Carpenters and Coopers tools, tallow, negro jackets, frocks, trowsers, wrappers, petticoats and hats, napt blanketing, bar and pig iron, cotton bagging, mens saddles, snassle and Pelham bridles, leather collars, curry-combs and brushes, spare reins, girths, sursingles, cruppers and stirrup leathers, whalebone whips, plated spurs, ditto shoebuckles, pen-knives, ivory, buck, and horn handled knives and forks, iron, tin, and copper tea-kettles, tin fish kettles, black-jacks, tin pots, coffee-pots, sauce-pan: and funnels, brass pillar candlesticks, flat ditto, japan’d ditto, block tin ditto, iron pots, frying-pans and gridirons, sad-irons, marking-irons, 6d, 8d, rod, and 20d, nails, pump tacks and scupper nails, hooks and hinges, garnet and HL hinges, shutter bolts, iron-plate bolts, casement stay turn buckles, stock locks, twice dead ditto, iron rimb ditto with brass handles, single and double bolted padlocks, white lead, red ditto, lamp black, hair brooms, cloaths brushes, shoe brushes, caulking irons, marline-spikes, serving-mallets, pump leather, tallow, scrubbing and paint brushes, single and double blocks, hand trumpets, horn lanthorns, tin ditto, tinder boxes, ship scrapers, time glasses, palm irons, sail needles, pump boxes, 12 thread ratline, marline, cordage from one and half to four and half inches, small anchors, 6, 7 and eight inch hawlers, folio and quarto post paper, fine writing ditto, ink powder, Irish wafers, sealing wax, quills and pounce, superfine flour, and a few English horses, & c. & c. Nov. 4, 1786.
Just imported in the ship Trusty, Capt. GARDNER, from Bristol, and to be sold by William J. STRUTH At Calliaqua
Best Rose Butter, in sirkins, Tripe in kegs, Spiced Salmon in jars, Vinegar in kegs, Yorkshire Hams, Dolphin Cheese,
Porter in barrels, Ditto wired in bottles, Taunton Ale, wired in bottles, Mould and dipt Candles, Soap, sig Blue, and Poland Starch, An assortment of fashionable mens Hats, Negro Hats, A compleat assortment of Carpenters Tools,
4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, and 30d, Nails, Gridirons and Frying-Pans. Mens, womens, and childrens Shoes and Pumps,
Mens Buck and Doe Gloves, An assortment of fashionable Coat Buttons, Currants in jars, Gruts in ditto, Cotton Bagging, and A large assortment of Tin and Earthen Ware, & c. & c. Nov. 4, 1786.
George BAILLIE & Co.
Have just imported in the Ship Trusty, Capt. GARDNER, from Bristol, and for sale at their Store in Kingstown, the following articles, Viz. Tripe in kegs, Salmon in kitts, Gloucester, North Wiltshire and Dolphin Cheese, Hams, Smoked and pickled Tongues, Butter in firkins and half sirkins, Potatoes and Ling Fish, Taunton small Beer, Bath Porter in bottles and barrels, Cyder and old Perry in bottles, Single refined Sugar, Soap in Boxes, Mould Candles in ditto, Best Flour Mustard in bottles, Tallow in kegs, Split and Seed Peas in ditto, White Biscuit in ditto, Red Herrings in ditto, Oatmeal in jugs, Barley in ditto, Basket Table Salt, Stitch Bacon, Etc Etc Nov. 4, 1786
Just imported and to be sold by Peter Julien QUESTELS, & Co. Fine and Superfine Flour in Barrels. October 28, 1786.
NOTE: All store advertisements on this page were listed in the newspaper in both English and French.
The English version is the only one listed here.
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Times of London for 16 October 1790:
The ship “Flying Delight” of St. Vincent’s was driven on shore August 10 at Tobago but was expected to be got off.
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Times of London for 17 October 1793:
Yellow Fever violently raged last summer at St. Vincent’s, and some others of the West-India Islands.
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The Times of London for 16 May 1795:
Persons & Places named in lengthy article about March 30, 1795 Charib (Carib) Insurrection in St. Vincent.
PERSONS NAMED:
Governor [James] SETON
Lord DALHOUSIE - commanded two regiments dispatched to the Island
CHATOYE - Charib chief
DU VALLE - Charib chief
Capt. F. or J. MORGAN
Captain SETON - commanded a detachment of the militia [this is probably James SETON, son of the Governor]
Lieutenant MACDOWALL - commanded a 22 man party of the militia on horseback
Mr. FERBER’s or FERBES’s or FORBES’s estate
Mr. GILCHRIST’s house was set on fire, also canes set on fire
Capt. CAMPBELL, commanded a company of the 46th who arrived from Martinique
Mr. GREATHEED’s estate, canes were set on fire, as well as the sugar works
Captain SKINNER commanded the ZEBRA sloop of war
Mr. KEANE’s estate
Mr. SHARPE’s estate
Captain McIVER arrived on the Roebuck, His Majesty’s ship
HARTLEY’s house mentioned as a meeting point for British troops
Lieutenant HILL mentioned as commanding sailors from a merchant ship
Lieutenant GROVES mentioned as commanding sailors from a merchant ship
Major WHYTELL commanded a detachment of the militia, also mentioned in association with the 60th Regiment
Capt. F. CAMPBELL commanded a group of armed slaves
Major SHARPE ordered to show Capt. SKINNER the road
Mr. SEYMOUR volunteered as advanced guide to Capt. SKINNER
Col. GORDON marched to Chateau-bellair with a detachment of the northern regiment
Mr. GRANT’s estate at Walibou was burned including the canes, works, negroe-houses, and other buildings
Sir William YOUNG’s estate near Calliaqua, sugar works burned
Mrs. ROSS’s estate, every building was burned and many negroes killed
Dr. FAIRBURN’s estate both sets of works were demolished and many negroes killed
PLACES NAMED:
BERKSHIRE-HILL
CHATEAUBELAIR
MARIAQUE
GRAND SABLE
RABACA
KINGSTOWN
DORSETSHIRE-HILL
STUBBS’S BATTERY
MASSARICA (?) RIVER
IAMBOU RIVER (modern spelling YAMBOU)
SION HILL
CALLIAQUA
*information in brackets is additional data from other sources
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The LONDON TIMES of 18 January 1797:
Sir,
When I had the honour of writing to your Excellency on the 22d of August, I inclosed a copy of the terms offered to the Charibs by Governor SETON and myself, in consequence of Sir Ralph ABERCROMBY’s orders and instructions to me upon that subject. At the same time I acquainted you with the plan I had adopted in order to reduce the remaining Brigands, and to compel the Charibs to surrender.
I have now the satisfaction to inform you of the total reduction of the Brigands and Charibs on this Island.
Marin PADRE (a negroe of St. Lucia) who has commanded the Brigands and Charibs since the capture of the Vigie, and who had great influence and authority over both, surrendered on the 2d instant.
The number of Brigands who have surrendered or been taken away since the 4th of July amount to 725, the number of Charibs to 4633, including women and children.
I have much pleasure in making known to you, for his Majesty’s information, the zeal, activity, and humanity which have actuated every description of officers and soldiers employed under my command during the whole of the Charib war; and I am happy to say, that, notwithstanding the season of the year and the fatigue the troops have undergone, they are in general very healthy.
Inclosed you will receive a return of the killed and wounded of his Majesty’s troops since the commencement of the Charib War.
I have the honour to be, & c.
P. HUNTER, Maj. Gen.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 16.
A letter, of which the following is an extract, has been received from Governor SETON by his Grace the Duke of Portland, his Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, dated St. Vincent’s, October 12, 1796.
I have the satisfaction to inform your Grace, that tranquility is on the eve of being restored to this Colony, owing in a very great measure to the unremitted exertions of Major-General HUNTER, and to his humane conduct towards the enemy of every description. All the Charib Chiefs have surrendered; their people are coming in daily; and we have at this moment about 3500 in our possession. Nearly all the Brigands, with their Leader, have also surrendered.
By a subsequent letter, from the Governor to his Grace, dated St. Vincent’s, the 16th of November last, it appears, that the remainder of the Charibs and Brigands had surrendered themselves, and that the Island was in a state of perfect tranquility.
To His Excellency Major-General GRAHAM.
Return of the Killed and Wounded of his Majesty’s Forces in the Island of St. Vincent, between the 20th of July and 15th of Oct. 1796:
26th Light Dragoons, - 1 Serjeant, 1 rank and file, killed; 1 rank and file wounded.
Royal Artillery, - 1 Gunner wounded.
3d Foot, (or BUFF’s.) —4 rank and file killed; 2 Serjeants, 19 rank and file, wounded.
40th Foot,—— 4 rank and file killed; 1 Lieutenant, 2 rank and file, wounded.
42d Foot,—- 1 rank and file killed; 3 rank and file wounded.
63d Foot,—3 rank and file killed; 1 Serjeant, 6 rank and file, wounded.
3d West India Regiment,—1 Serjeant, 4 rank and file, killed; 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 Ensign, 3 rank and file, wounded.
LOWENSTEIN ’s Chasseurs,—4 rank and file killed; 2 Lieutenants, 1 Serjeant, 8 rank and file, wounded.
Lieutenant-Colonel HAFFEY’s St. Vincent’s Rangers,—1 Serjeant, 8 rank and file, killed; 1 Lieutenant, 6 Serjeants, 16 rank and file wounded.
Major TRENCH’s St. Vincent’s Rangers,—2 rank and file killed; 2 Serjeants, 8 rank and file, wounded.
Total—3 Serjeants, 31 rank and file, killed; 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 4 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 12 Serjeants, 1 Gunner, 66 rank and file, wounded.
Officers wounded.
Lieutenant-Colonel GRAHAM and Ensign TOWER, of the 2d West India regiment.
Lieutenant MILLAR, of the 40th regiment.
Lieutenants BEAUSIRE and ROQUIER, of LOWENSTEIN’s Chasseurs.
Lieutenant M’KENZIE, of Lieutenant-Colonel HAFFEY’s St. Vincent Rangers.
(Signed W. J. CURREY, Aide de Camp.)
Times of London for 19 October 1799
Sugar Plantation/Estate of Colonerie Vale owned by DuBOIS, WINDSOR and HENVILLE* for sale
*a later ad for the same sale shows the name as HENDVILLE
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The Royal Grenada Chronicle in 1801:
ESTATE SALE
COLONARIE ESTATE St. Vincent Owners Robert Elmes HENVILLE, Samuel Bridgeman WINDSOR, Mark Antoine DUBOIS, Toussaint Augustin DUBOIS, Marie LATAITTE… 414 acres and 96
Lease; east by sea, west by 3 Rivers Estate (William GILCHRIST), north by Mt. William Estate (Bryan BLAKE), south by Colonarie River; all buildings, livestock, sugar works, 183 negroes. Raymond DUBOIS, deceased). William ALEXANDER, Provost Marshall.
“CAREER” Estate in St. Vincent 506 1/2 acres in batavia cane, boiling house, still house, curing house, water mill, millhouse, manager’s house, overseer’s house, sick house, 78 negroes houses, bounded by lands of James BRUCE, heirs of Duncan CAMPBELL, Bertrie ENTWISTLE, heirs of John BYERS, Thomas FAIRBAIRN, and Dr. YOUNG.
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Edinburgh Advertiser (Scotland) for 21 September 1802:
ESTATE SALE
This notice names “George BAILLIE and others” as complainants, and Farquhar CAMPBELL, defendant, for a sale to take place November 1, 1802 at the Court House in Kingstown, St. Vincent. The estate to be sold is situated in the parishes of Saint George and Charlotte, and quarter of Mariaqua, and is called CAREER. Further description states it is located 4 measured miles from Stubb’s Bay, and 6 from Calliaqua Bay. The estate contains 506 acres and a half of land, the greatest part in Batavia Canes, together with all the facilities needed to manufacture sugar and rum. Buildings include several for the sugar works, along with a manager’s house, an overseer’s house, a sick house, and 78 negro houses. The owners of the land surrounding the estate are named as James BRUCE & Co., and the heirs of Duncan CAMPBELL, Esq., deceased; Bertie DINWIDLE, Esq. (? not sure of this hard to read name), the heirs of John BYRES, Esq., deceased; Thomas FAIRBAIRN, Esq., Doctor YOUNG, and Messrs. ROBINSON and DOUGLAS. Notice signed by William TAYLOR, Master in Chancery.
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BARBADOS MERCURY Newspaper in British Library, Colindale
(*provided by Joan Leggett)
Bridgetown - Saturday November 18, 1809
KINGSTOWN, ST VINCENT, Oct. 22 1809
This morning His Majesty’s 90th Regt. Under the immediate command of Major NAPIER, was viewed on the Parade Ground by Brig. Gen. ORDE. The noble Military appraised of this fine body of men, and the great precision and correctness with which they always perform their different evolutions, influenced a general excitement in all ranks of the inhabitants to be present on the occasion this morning. The line was formed before six and at about seven the Brig. General, accompanied by Sir Charles BRISBANE and an immense train of attendants, arrived on the ground, who were at the instant received under a discharge of 19 guns from the Royal Artillery, and the line at present arms after which the final inspection, firing, and marchings took place, during which it was pleasing to observe the steadiness and high discipline of the men, which reflect the highest honour on Major NAPIER and the Officers under his command. After the duty of the day was over, Gen. ORDE entertained at an elegant dejeneur the Officers and several of the principal inhabitants to the extent of forty in number, and this evening His Excellency the Governor entertains the Garrison and the several heads of departments. His Excellency has been pleased to compliment the Privates of the 90th Regt with the sum of One Hundred Pounds as a token of his esteem for their general good conduct and high state of discipline.
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The Times of London Newspaper for 04 October 1813:
Article detailing proceedings from June 15 of a lawsuit involving the caretaker of the Botanic Gardens of St. Vincent from the Court of King’s Bench and Common Pleas in St. Vincent. Lawsuit titled “LOCHHEAD v. FRENCH and GRANT”.
The article mentions:
William LOCHHEAD, Esq., who was called from Trinidad by the late Dr. ANDERSON*, to take charge of the Gardens, and was recommended by him as successor.
Mr. GRANT has taken over the post at the Gardens when LOCHHEAD arrived from Trinidad
His Excellency Sir Charles BRISBANE, governor of St. Vincent
Hon. James FRENCH, Esq.
Mr. BARBER, the assistant in the garden
H. P. KEANE, counsel and attorney for Mr. LOCHHEAD
Mr. CALDER, called as a witness
J. FRENCH, defendant - not certain if this is the same individual as Hon. James FRENCH, Esq.
Mr. WINDSOR - counsel for the defendants
*[Note: Dr. ANDERSON was Dr. Alexander ANDERSON, second caretaker of the Botanic Gardens, who died in 1811]
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The LONDON TIMES of 12 April 1816:
[Advertisement.]
REGISTRATION OF SLAVES
To C. N. PALLMER, Esq. M. P.
Sir– To relieve you from the pain which you profess to feel at finding the name of MR. STEPHEN subscribed to insinuations which you deem “unfounded and unjust” and to assist you in that laudable search for truth, in which it appears you can get no help from the West Indian committee, I beg leave to lay before you the following documents:–
St. Vincent, Sept. 7, 1815
Sir–We have the honour to address you as a committee of general correspondence appointed by the legislature of this colony, and to enclose for your consideration the copy of a resolution entered into at their last meeting, whereby we are directed to communicate
with you and the several gentlemen therein named, on the subject of recommending a fit person, being a member of the House of Commons, to act as coadjutor of PATRICK COLQUHOUN, Esq. as agents for this colony.
It being the wish of the legislature to multiply the West Indian interest as much as possible in that _____, we beg leave to suggest to you the propriety of selecting some one who does not at present fill the situation of agent for any of the sister colonies; and at the same time recommend the earlier attention of our friends in England to this subject as there appears a small but not contemptible party forming in the __ __ country, whose object seems directed to the introduction of certain regulations in these colonies, which threaten the most serious consequences, and which cannot but be regarded with horror by all persons
interested in their well-being and prosperity.
We have the honour to be, &c. &c.
CHARLES THESIGIR, Chairman.
RICHARD ARUNDELL
JOHN P. ROSS
House of Assembly, Sept. 6, 1815.
Resolved, That the Committee of Correspondence be directed to communicate with SIR WILLIAM STRUTH, ANTHONY BROWN, JOSIAS JACKSON, JOHN WILSON, JONATHAN MORGAN, HENRY HARVEY, WM. M’KENZIE, and ROBERT SUTHERLAND, Esqrs., or any three of them, upon the subject of recommending a fit person, being a member of the House of Commons, to act as coadjutor of PATRICK COLQUHOUN, Esq. as agents of this colony.
(A true copy) HERBERT P. COX, Clerk of the Assembly.
The Edinburgh Advertiser (Scotland) for 01 September 1818
INTELLIGENCE FROM LLOYD’S LIST
St. Vincent -
June 16: “Last night the sloop CONCORD, of this port, parted her cable, went upon the rocks under Fort Charlotte, was wrecked”.
June 2: “The schooner LIVERPOOL got upon the reef of Calliaqua, and is totally lost. Part of the sugar and rum saved”.
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Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) for 20 November 1866:
GREAT FIRE IN ST. VINCENT
A great Fire had taken place in St. Vincent, on the 3rd inst.; it had its origin in the coals left kindled in a pot in the upper part of a house in Kingstown. We subjoin the names of the principal sufferers whose Establishments have been entirely destroyed:–
“Messrs. COREA, SUTHERLAND, BREWSTER & Co., MOSS, PLUMMERIDGE, and some smaller shopkeepers. Messrs. GRAHAM, PORTER & Co., DOE (with several magnificent lumber piles), D’OYLY, NANTON & Son, LUCAS; the Treasury, Post Office, & c., Bonding Warehouse and Armoury. Messrs. BREWSTER & Co., PROUDFOOT, PLUMMERIDGE, and ANDRADE. Several wooden tenements were pulled down and removed, and this precaution contributed materially to check the devastation. Many poor private persons have lost their all, being glad in the panic to escape with their lives. We think we do not over-estimate the loss, when we say that eighty thousand pounds will not re-build, re-furnish, and re-stock.”
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Atlanta Constitution for 14 February 1879:
Foreign Flashes
Special Dispatches to the Constitution
Kingston, February 14 — A revolution has broken out in Hayti. Negro disturbances of an alarming character have occurred in the island of St. Vincent.
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The Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) for 19 September 1904:
Mr. Volmar MONPLAISIR of St. Lucia appointed postmaster of St. Vincent.
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The Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) for 06 November 1905:
Article dated October 3 from Kingstown, St. Vincent about protests to a proposal to join the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada together as one nation.
Mentioned are:
The Venerable Archdeacon E. A. TURPIN, R. S. CHEESMAN, J. E. SPROTT, J. G. W. HAZELL, Hon’ble Conrad J. SIMMONS, C. O. HAZELL (K. C.), H. HAYWARDS, P. F. HUGGIN.
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Chicago Daily Tribune (USA) for 18 December 1911:
The newspaper column titled La Marquise De Fontenoy provides details on the St. Vincent governor of that day. He was the Hon. Charles Gideon MURRAY. He and his wife, referred to only as Mrs. MURRAY, were spending some time in New York before returning to the island. Murray was reported to have been in the colonial service for the past twelve years. The article states that he also took part in the Boer war, and that he was a younger son of Lord Ellibank and brother of “that master of Ellibank”, who was the senior government whip and so-called patronage secretary of the treasury. MURRAY’s dearest friend is reported to be the chancellor of the exchequer, a Mr. LLOYD-GEORGE. The article states that MURRAY’s middle name of Gideon comes from the first owner of the now ruined Ellibank castle, Sir Gideon MURRAY, lord of the session of Scotland.
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St. Vincent Times for 21 December 1911:
J. H. AIKMAN appointed Sub-manager of the St. Vincent branch of the Colonial Bank from the Jamaica branch. He succeeded the late Mr. J. R. ROBISON as cashier at Jamaica at the time that ROBISON was appointed to St. Vincent”.
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