SD1091. Samuel Moulton-Barrett (brother) to R. Sydney Lambert

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 363 (in part).

Montego Bay

Dec. 18th 1839.

Sir

Your being appointed by his Excellency the Governor for the distribution of the lately arrived Africans: I hereby tender for 100 of them as Agricultural labourers to be located on Cinnamon Hill & Cornwall Estates both in this Parish to be classed as nearly as possible in the following manner, viz 35 males, 35 females & 30 children: I also agree to clothe feed & give them medical attendance provided they are apprenticed to me for not less than one year: & I further acceed to pay the 1st class at the rate of 2/6 Cry per week or 5d per day for every days labour performed, The 2nd class 1/8 Cy per week, & 3rd class 10d[.]

Address, on integral page: <… Lamb>ert Esq.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Eton College Library.

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