Jarvis family papers 1790-1884 Jarvis family papers

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Jarvis family papers 1790-1884 Jarvis family papers

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The Jarvis family papers contain correspondence, documents, and letter books pertaining to the business affairs of several generations of the Jarvis family, who ran a sugarcane plantation in Antigua.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6391049

William L. Clements Library

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Jarvis, Jane Whitehead.

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Jarvis, Thomas, 1835-1877.

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Jarvis, Mary Elizabeth Shepherd Freeman.

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Jarvis, George Ralph Payne.

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Jarvis, Bertie Entwistle, 1793-1862.

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Jarvis family

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Thomas Jarvis inherited his father-in-law's Antiguan estate, Popeshead, in 1716; the sugar plantation grew and prospered, remaining in the family for two hundred years. The estates eventually included one thousand acres in the parishes of St. John and St. George, as well as Long Island and Bird Island. In 1747, after Jarvis' death, the estate passed to his eldest son, Thomas (1722-1785), who served in the government of Antigua, eventually becoming Chief Justice of the Court of Commo...

Jarvis, Thomas, 1735-1805.

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Jarvis, Thomas, d. 1747.

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Jarvis, James Nibbs.

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