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 Edition |
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الصفحة 36
Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the metropolis , and contains about nine hundred houfes , and three thousand inhabitants of all denominations , and is about thirteen miles from Kingston ; the road is quite level , and the best in ...
Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the metropolis , and contains about nine hundred houfes , and three thousand inhabitants of all denominations , and is about thirteen miles from Kingston ; the road is quite level , and the best in ...
الصفحة 38
The number of fugar plantations are computed to be one thousand fixty eight , and to make upon an average one hundred and fix thousand of Muscovado fugar yearly , and fifty three thousand puncheons of rum ; there are about two thousand ...
The number of fugar plantations are computed to be one thousand fixty eight , and to make upon an average one hundred and fix thousand of Muscovado fugar yearly , and fifty three thousand puncheons of rum ; there are about two thousand ...
الصفحة 39
The 17th of June , 1692 , Port - Royal was entirely fwallowed up ; two thousand lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was removed more than a mile ...
The 17th of June , 1692 , Port - Royal was entirely fwallowed up ; two thousand lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was removed more than a mile ...
الصفحة 58
Any man with four or five thousand pounds may get poffeffion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual inftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fecurity on the eftate ; and after he ...
Any man with four or five thousand pounds may get poffeffion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual inftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fecurity on the eftate ; and after he ...
الصفحة 62
The council is compofed of ten men , fome of whom are , though poffeffed of estates , thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are facred ; there are feveral other great gentlemen of this defcription in ...
The council is compofed of ten men , fome of whom are , though poffeffed of estates , thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are facred ; there are feveral other great gentlemen of this defcription in ...
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