West India merchant (Colonial - Caribbean)
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A partnership between Alexander Bartlet and George Campbell ran until March 1779. The firm traded under Alexander Bartlet & Co., Bartlet, Campbell & Bartlet, William Bartlet, Campbell & Co., and from 1778 after Williams Bartlet's death George Campbell & Co., merchants of Grenada.
Call for creditors of Alexander Bartlet & Co. late of Green Lettice Lane, merchants, was made in 1786.
Mark Quintanilla, 'Mercantile connections in the Ceded Isles: the Alexander Bartlet & George Campbell Company', International Social Science Review 79.1 & 2 (2004), pp. 14-26.
London Gazette 12799 28/10/1786 p. 515.
RBS holds 'Papers relative to Alexander Bartlet & Co., West India merchants', http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/content/dam/rbs/Documents/History/Hub/wc-41.pdf accessed 08/11/2013 and 'Papers relating to the trustees of the estate of Alexnader Bartlet & Co., West India merchants 15 May 1771-9 May 1815', GB/1502/WC/41. The main trustees were William Annand linen draper; William Matthews, merchant; and Robert Williams senior partner in Lowe, Vere & Williams bankers of Birchin Lane.
25th Nov 1776 - 1851
Resident clergyman, proponant of religious instruction for enslaved people.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
