Jacob Aemilius Irving letterbooks 1809-1816 Irving, Jacob Aemilius

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Jacob Aemilius Irving letterbooks 1809-1816 Irving, Jacob Aemilius

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The Irving collection consist of three volumes of outgoing correspondence written from Liverpool, England, and Jamaica, 1809-1816. These volumes are a resource for understanding the mentality of a Jamaican sugar planter during the years following the cessation of the British slave trade.

3 volumes(518 pages)

eng,

William L. Clements Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6391885

William L. Clements Library

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Irving, Jacob Aemilius

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Saddled with the debts of his deceased father, Jacob Aemilius Irving left his family's sugar estates in Jamaica in July, 1809, to try to right his affairs. Traveling first to New York, to renew commercial contacts and try the waters at Ballston Spa, Irving was greeted with the disconcerting news that he was to be arrested for nonpayment of debt, the result of losing an old lawsuit recently revived by the mercantile firm of Moulton & Livingston. Rescued by his business associates...

Irving, James, b. 1792

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Moulton & Livingston.

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Birch, Joseph.

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