Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Adams, Thomas, of Alnwick
- Abstract:
- A collection dealing with the Jamaican financial interests of Benjamin Adams and Thomas Adams; the collection consists of correspondence, statements of bills and accounts, estate dealings and promissory notes.
- Extent:
- 65 items in one box
- Language:
- The records are in English .
Background
- Scope and content:
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The majority of the material in the collection concerns the financial interests of Benjamin Adams and Thomas Adams in Jamaica. Benjamin Adams was owed a significant sum by Jamaican landowner George Noble. Upon Noble's death (ca. 1790), Adams entered into proceedings via attorneys James Corne Pownall and David Duncomb to recover his debt. The process was severely complicated by the revelation that the cane plantation overseen by Noble, known as the Lottery Estate in Trelawney, Jamaica, was not actually owned by him. After Benjamin Adams' death in 1792, the affair was taken up by the executor of his will, his brother Thomas Adams. The collection consists of autograph letters and copies, statements of bills and accounts, estate dealings and promissory notes; included is correspondence with, among others, William Cruden, William Morton Pitt and David Ross.
- Biographical / historical:
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Benjamin Adams was an English businessman; he died in 1792. Thomas Adams was a solicitor, an agent for the Duke of Northumberland, and the owner of Eshott Hall (Alnwick, Northumberland).
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased from Jeff Weber Rare Books, April 2018.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged chronologically.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Administration of estates -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century
Administration of estates -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century>
Debt -- Great Britain -- 18th century
Debt -- Great Britain -– 19th century
Lawyers -- England
Accounts -– 18th century
Accounts -– 19th century
Documents -– 18th century
Documents -– 19th century
Financial records -– 18th century
Financial records -– 19th century
Letters (correspondence) -– 18th century
Letters (correspondence) -– 19th century
Manuscripts -– 18th century
Manuscripts –- 19th century
Receipts (financial records) -- 18th century
Receipts (financial records) -- 19th century
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108, US
- Contact:
- (626) 405-2191