West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part of which is planted with Guinea grass , and when it is properly ftocked , it ...
... some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part of which is planted with Guinea grass , and when it is properly ftocked , it ...
الصفحة 66
... some trash of damaged her- rings , and other faltfish , until they get independent in the world . Although Jews are not permitted to reprenfent in affembly , nor to hold any public offices under government , yet they are fuffered to ...
... some trash of damaged her- rings , and other faltfish , until they get independent in the world . Although Jews are not permitted to reprenfent in affembly , nor to hold any public offices under government , yet they are fuffered to ...
الصفحة 70
J. B. Moreton. koneft men ) who made no remittances at all , though some of them had it in their power to make large ones . The greedy vultures ! ava- ricious fycophants ! dishonestly revelled in excess and debauchery , until the ...
J. B. Moreton. koneft men ) who made no remittances at all , though some of them had it in their power to make large ones . The greedy vultures ! ava- ricious fycophants ! dishonestly revelled in excess and debauchery , until the ...
الصفحة 74
... Some attornies write for larger quantities of ftores than is neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own use ; others keep ftores , and take every opportunity of fup- plying the eftates in their care with every article at an ...
... Some attornies write for larger quantities of ftores than is neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own use ; others keep ftores , and take every opportunity of fup- plying the eftates in their care with every article at an ...
الصفحة 91
... Some years ago the West Indies suited poor adventurers vaftly better than at prefent ; formerly tranfports acquired large properties ; it was not thought ftrange for convicts after fix or feven years bondage was over to enter into ...
... Some years ago the West Indies suited poor adventurers vaftly better than at prefent ; formerly tranfports acquired large properties ; it was not thought ftrange for convicts after fix or feven years bondage was over to enter into ...
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