Docket register of town and garden lots granted in the islands of Dominica, St. Vincent, and Tobago, and catalog of Lissanoure library, 1765-1771, 1813.

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Docket register of town and garden lots granted in the islands of Dominica, St. Vincent, and Tobago, and catalog of Lissanoure library, 1765-1771, 1813.

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Docket register of town and garden lots granted in the islands of Dominica, St. Vincent, and Tobago, containing names of purchasers, amount of land, prices, and other information. Also includes a docket of Governor Scott's grants, 1765-1771. Contains bookplate of George Earl of Macartney, who was Governor of the Caribee Islands from 1775 to 1779. In the same volume is a "Catalogue of the Library of the Cottage of Lissanoure," 1813. Lissanoure was the Macartney family home in Ireland.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806

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A member of an old Scots-Irish family, Macartney studied at Trinity College (M.A., 1759) in Dublin. He was knighted and appointed envoy extraordinary to Russia in 1764 and, on his return, entered Parliament, becoming chief secretary for Ireland (1769-72). In 1775 he became governor of the Caribbee Islands (Grenada, the Grenadines, and Tobago), being created an Irish baron in 1776, and from 1780 to 1786 he served as governor of Madras. After being created a viscount (1792), he was sent to China t...