Papers of the Newton Family

Title: Papers of the Newton Family

Description: The 8 boxes of papers in this research level collection range in date from 1680-1920. They are held in the Archives, in the Historic Collections Services section of the ULL, and are accessible only on request [for details of access to this material see: http://www.ull.ac.uk].
The earliest material in the collection is the papers of Samuel and Barbara Newton (1680-1699). Samuel's correspondence is mostly concerned with shipments to and from Barbados and with the management of his estates in England. The majority his wife's correspondence relates to her attempts to obtain the rents she was owed by tenants in Barbados. The material contains information about the production of sugar and the management of the plantations, references to slaves and to crops grown other than sugar cane. There are also inventories of belongings, including slaves and some legal documents.
The later material was mainly gathered together and created by Thomas Lane in his management of the estate. This includes accounts from 1706 onwards (with a thirty year gap from 1726), and from 1794 correspondence from plantation managers and merchants including copies of his outgoing correspondence. The material contains information about slavery, the life and climate in Barbados, trade conditions and the wars with America and France. After the death of the Lane brothers the material again consists mainly of accounts, with some correspondence to Richard Stuart Lane and subsequently his widow dating from between 1871 and 1894.

Strengths: Information about slavery in Barbados in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Size: 8 boxes of papers

Catalogue: University of London Library Main Catalogue (Innopac)

Catalogue URL: http://193.63.81.240/search~b1o1c1i1r1/

Main URL: http://www.ull.ac.uk/

Access: Please visit the ULL web site at http://www.ull.ac.uk/ for full details about access conditions, registration fees and borrowing information.

Acquisition dates: 1969

Note: The following lists provide information about the Newton family papers: List of D (W) 1771, Pickstock Collection, [which includes a manuscript copy of a Survey of the estate called Seawells, Barbados, the property of Lady Sarah Holte and Mrs. Elizabeth Newton], and list of D 1344/2, Papers of the Newton Family of King's Bromley - ULL Location and classmark: Palaeography CC25.8c (P.C.1) (9)fol.

Interest: Caribbean

Complete: Complete

Subjects

Trade

Sugar plantations

Slavery

Plantation economy

Land tenure

Personal/Corporate names

Newton, Samuel, fl. 1680-1699

Places

Caribbean

Barbados