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Catalogue reference: CO 318/274/35
This record is about the The labour riots at St Croix: transmits despatch and enclosures from British minister... dating from 1881 Jan 21 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: West Indies Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 318/274/35
1881 Jan 21
The labour riots at St Croix: transmits despatch and enclosures from British minister at Copenhagen giving a list of the 23 British subjects sentenced to death. The list gives name of individual, name of plantation on which employed, and British island of origin: James Emanuel Benjamin, known as Mannie, Mount Pleasant, Antigua; John Hodge, Fredensborg, Trinidad; David Cameron, La Grange, Jamaica; Joseph Powell [or Rowell?; but clearly written in CO 318/274/42 as 'Bowell'], Hogensborg, Barbados; Joseph Spencer, Hogensborg, Barbados; John Thomas Sobers, Becks Grove, Barbados; Christopher Samuel, Mount Pleasant & Pleseus, Antigua; George Michael, Engy, St Lucia; Thomas Critchlow, Jealousey, Barbados; William James, Grove Place, Antigua; George Callender, Enfield Green, Barbados; William Arnold, Upper Love, Antigua; Richard Gibbs, known as Sealy, Barrenspot, Barbados; Edward Lewis, Mt. Pleasant, St Kitts; Henry Barker, Hogensborg, Barbados; Joseph Briggs, Fredensborg, Barbados; William Henry [a comment in CO 318/274/42 notes that his name may be Henry William], Lower Love, Antigua; Wren Gittens, Lower Love, Barbados; George Cambridge, Upper Love, Antigua; James Cox, Diamond, Barbados; Mary Thomas, Sprat Hall, Antigua; John Samuel, Anguilla, Antigua; James Griffith, Anguilla, Barbados. Foreign Office, folios 232-23
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