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Catalogue reference: CO 101/24/29
This record is about the Petition of the Proprietors of the Island of Tobago; that Dominica, St. Vincent,... dating from 1779 Nov 22-1782 July 8 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Grenada, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Petition of the Proprietors of the Island of Tobago; that Dominica, St. Vincent, and Grenada have already been captured by the French, greatly apprehensive that Tobago will be also if troops are not immediately granted for its protection; states that Island is more important to the nation than is perhaps generally known as two million sterling have already been expended in its cultivation and already produces 5000 hogsheads of sugar besides rum, cotton and indigo; also is the only West Indian island Britain possess that is out of the latitude of hurricanes; signed by W. Tod [?]; Mich. Croker; John Antho[ny?] ?; B. & J. Boddington; John James; Jack [?] Wilkinson; Lascelles Daling [?]; John Barnil [?]; William Pulleney; Tho [mas] Chiaps [?]; William Gollows [?]; John Henderson; John Hobley [?]; Simon Trazer [?]; William Chrichton; A. Piggott; Allen Marl[?]. Several Proprietors of Tobago, Tobago, Folios 95 - 96
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