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Duplicate of CO 37/42/9. Folios 23-24
Catalogue reference: CO 37/42/10
Date: 1790 Apr 15
Duplicate of CO 37/42/9. Folios 23-24
Item
Comments on the salary of and his suitability for the positions of agent and collector...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/42/42
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- 1789 May 27
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Description (What the record is about)
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Comments on the salary of and his suitability for the positions of agent and collector of customs of Turks Island. Explains that the climate of the islands did not suit 'the constitutions of European peoples'. Adds that the Bermudians had developed the ability to stand the climate and lived on a diet of fish and salted provisions as 'no kind of vegetables grows there owing to the salt climate'.
Paul Bascome, Folios 197-1989
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Despatches [Folios 1-182] and Miscellaneous [Folios 183-264]. Described at item level
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Comments on the salary of and his suitability for the positions of agent and collector...
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