Mercantile communities in the Ceded Islands: the Alexander Bartlet & George Campbell Company

(35) Ibid.

(36) Public Record Office, "State of the Island of Tobago, 1775," Colonial Office 101/18.

(37) Ibid.

(38) Ibid.; Byres, Plan of the Island of Tobago [unnumbered map].

(39) Public Record Office, "State of the Island of Tobago, 1771," Colonial Office 101/16; "State of the Island of Tobago, 1772," Colonial Office 101/17.

(40) Ibid.

(41) Byres, Plan of the Island of Tobago [unnumbered map].

(42) Dunn, Sugar and Slaves, 43.

(43) Daniel Paterson, A New Plan of the Island of Grenada; from the original French survey of Monsieur Pinel; taken in 1763 by order of the government and now published with the addition of English names, alterations of property and other improvements to the present year 1780 (London: William Fadden, 1780), [unnumbered map].

(44) Royal Bank of Scotland, "Inventory and Valuation of the lands, houses, slaves and livestock situated in Friendsfield, Queens Bay Division, Tobago, belonging to George Campbell, Alexander Bartlet, and Roderick Williamson," 17 April 1773, WD/495/2.

(45) Public Record Office, "State of the Island of Tobago, 1773," Colonial Office 101/17;"State of the Island of Tobago, 1775," Colonial Office 101/18.

(46) Public Record Office, "State of the Island of Tobago, 1775," Colonial Office 101/18;"State of the Island of Tobago, 1780," Colonial Office 285/1.

(47) Public Record Office, "State of the Island of Tobago, 1771," Colonial Office 101/16;"State of the Island of Tobago, 1772," Colonial Office 101/16, f. 27; "State of the Island of Tobago, 1773," Colonial Office 101/17; "State of the Island of Tobago, 1775," Colonial Office 101/18;"State of the Island of Tobago, 1780," Colonial Office 285/1, f. 13.

(48) Public Record Office, "List of Purchasers of the Lands in His Majesty's Island Tobago," 1 May 1768; Governor Melville to the Earl of Hillsborough, Principal Secretary of State, 10 May 1768, Colonial Office 101/2, f. 81.

(49) Quintanilla, "The World of Alexander Campbell," 232.

(50) Ibid.

(51) Ward, British West Indian Slavery, 43.

(52) Royal Bank of Scotland, "Letter from William Bartlet, Campbell & Co in Grenada to Alexander Bartlet & Co," 23 May-6 June 1778, WD/495/5.

(53) Royal Bank of Scotland, "State of a Sale of Slaves by George Shand, Solicitor and representative of William Matthews, Robert Williamson and William Annand, trustees of George Campbell and Alexander Bartlet," 20 September 1786-31 July 1787, WD/495/37.

(54) Royal Bank of Scotland, "Walter Todd of Carriacou, the Grenadines, to Alexander Bartlet & Co," 17 November 1778, WD/495/10; "Letter from Walter Todd of Carriacou, the Grenadines, to Alexander Bartlet & Co.," 31 March 1779, WD/49/13; "Alexander Bartlet & Co.'s account current with Col. Turner & Co.," 31 July 1783, WD/495/24.

(55) The company sent out several public notices to creditors in an effort to retire the firm's debts. See Royal Bank of Scotland, WD/495/76-80.