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Title: Government House Barbados June 28 1824
Place of Origin: Government House Barbados
Date: 1824-06-28
Series Heading: M532. Warde, Sir Henry, 1766-1834.
Geography: West Indies, Unspecified
Subject: Warde, Henry, Sir, 1766-1834, Governors -- Barbados -- Correspondence, Employment references, Officer personnel, Respect for persons, Discontent, Barbados -- Politics and government -- 19th century, West Indies -- History
Notes: "Confidential" "Many Thanks my dear Clinton for your last Letters... Lt Colonel Mores being a Nephew of our... late General, is a sufficient Recommendation to any British Officer... [he] is of the new school and approves of nothing which is not French... We had... Conversation on the new Tacticks of Torrens alias Clinton... Pray ask your Brother what he thinks of a Plan of mine... which I understand Sir A. Campbell took up... The gentlemen of my Council and some of the Grandees continue to behave in the same indecorous way toward me... I have only to hope they may take Wit in their anger..." signed "Henry Warde."Warde was governor of Barbados 1821-1827., Original digital object name: bei-m532, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

Title: Jamaica, 10 Oct. 1823. "My Lord I thank your...
Place of Origin: Jamaica
Date: 1823-10-10
Series Heading: M521. Owen, Sir Edward Campbell Rich, 1771-1849.
Geography: Barbados, Columbia, Cuba, Great Britain, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico
Subject: Employment references, Great Britain -- Royal Navy -- Officers -- Rating of
Notes: "My Lord I thank your Lordship for your Letter..." Favorable and particular mention of Captain Leith and Sir Thomas Cochrane., Original digital object name: bei-m521r, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

Title: Lettre de m de Rochambeau fils quil demande Les Boules de m Le Gouverneur Genl. de St. domingue (docket title)
Place of Origin: Cap-Français (Haiti)
Date: 1792-10-07
Series Heading: M353. Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph, vicomte de, fl. 1792.
Geography: Saint-Domingue
Subject: Military appointments, Military attache´s, Employment references, Grasse, Franc¸ois Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Kings and rulers -- Children, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- French participation, Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804, France -- Colonies -- Dominican Republic -- Santo Domingo, West Indies -- History
Notes: "L'amitié qui liait mon père avec Monsieur de Grasse Lieutenant Général des Armés Navales, les services que ce général a rendu à l'Indépendance Américaine..." sont des titres qui autorisent le fils du célèbre Amiral, à demander à ître attaché au Commandant en chef de l'Expédition de St. Domingue. Rochambeau se fait "le garant de sa bravoure et de son patriotisme.", Original digital object name: bei-m353, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

Title: London, 26 Feb. 1800. ALS to Delair "Negt. A Charleston, Caroline...
Place of Origin: London (England)
Date: 1800-02-26
Series Heading: M409. Edwards, Bryan, 1743-1800.
Geography: Haiti
Subject: Grasse, Franc¸ois Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Edwards, Bryan, 1743-1800 -- Correspondence, Retraction letters, Dominica, Battle of, 1782, West Indies -- History, Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) -- History -- Early works to 1800, Employment references, Merchants -- Correspondence -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Early works to 1800
Notes: "Dear Sir, I had the honor, a few days ago, of receiving your obliging Letter... accompanied with another from Mons: de Grasse, complaining, with great reason, of a paragraph in my printed account of Sto. Domingo, reflecting on his character and conduct..."Edward admits misstatements regarding Auguste de Grasse in his Historical survey of the French colony in the island of St. Domingo, London, 1797, and promises revisions in the new edition.With contemporary translation into French of Edwards' letter, p. 3-4."James Delaire, a draughtsman and mathematician, had been in the employ of William Gerard DeBrahm, his Majesty's Surveyor General, in East Florida, but Delaire had departed the province by 1771" (George C. Rogers, Jr., ed., The Papers of Henry Laurens IX:312, note 6). Laurens' letter to Jacques Delaire dated 25 Feb. 1774 (ibid.) says, in part, "Undoubtedly, Sir, you may do extremely well in South Carolina, with a tolerable Capital of Money, either in planting or Commerce. You were a Stranger in East Florida, not fortunately Connected, and for want of experience, no wonder you Succeeded badly. But even in that Country the Planters have made pretty good Crops the last Year and perhaps a Second pursuit may be attended by a more favorable event to you. ...Laurens writes with an order to "Delaire and Richmond, a Rochelle firm composed in part of [Laurens'] acquaintance Jacques DeLaire" (ibid., XI:303 note) in 1777. James Delaire and Co., merchants, trading at Nichols's wharf in Charleston, 1801-1802, James Delair was listed as still living in Charleston in 1806., Original digital object name: bei-m409, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

Title: Whitehall, 30th oct: 94. ALS to "Lord Sydney"
Place of Origin: Whitehall
Date: 1794-10-30
Series Heading: M364. Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1736-1806.
Geography: West Indies, Unspecified
Subject: Military appointments, Employment references, Military engineers, West Indies -- History
Notes: "...I shall be very happy to attend to Your Lordship's Recommendation of the Chevalier De Fougeray, if any french Engineers are to be employed in the West Indies... it would be... convenient to avail ourselves of their assistance being much in want of officers of that Description..." signed "Richmond. &, c:", Original digital object name: bei-m364, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

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