London - 1801 - ????
Founded as the Institution for the Care and Prevention of Contagious Fevers in 1801, opening in 1802 on Gray's Inn Road.
Langford Millington appears as one of Vice-Presidents (with the Bishop of Durham Lord Sheffield, Walter Farquhar and William Wilberforce) of a new London institution to address contagious fevers, following a meeting in May 1801 of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comfort of the Poor. The new entity was the precursor of the London Fever Hospital, opening in 1802 at Gray's Inn Road as the Institution for the Care and Prevention of Contagious Fevers.
http://www.mocavo.co.uk/A-Collection-of-Papers-Intended-to-Promote-an-Institution-for-the-Cure-Prevention-of-Infectious-Fevers-2/228581/75 [accessed 22/09/2105]
1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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.
