Nugent family papers : Special subjects : West Indies affairs, 1716-1765.

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Nugent family papers : Special subjects : West Indies affairs, 1716-1765.

Correspondence concerns family and financial affairs, trade (including sugar and slave trade), and colonial politics. There are also a few official papers dealing with St. Christopher and Leeward Islands, including: lists of civil and military personnel of the St. Christophers in 1717, and papers concerning the capture of the sloops Relief and Pink by pirates in 1720.

Approx. 70 pieces.1 box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6742072

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Leeward Islands. Governor (1729-1752 : Mathew)

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Knight, John, d. 1733.

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Nugent family.

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Personal correspondence between Lt. Gen. William Mathew, Jr., Governor of the British Leeward Islands in 1729-1752 and John Knight of Gosfield Hall, Essex, a prominent MP with considerable interst in colonial trade. From the description of Nugent family papers : Special subjects : West Indies affairs, 1716-1765. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122510064 ...

Mathew, William, fl.1729-1752

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Pink (Sloop)

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Relief (Sloop)

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