Identity area
Reference code
Slavery/Box 8/137
Unique identifier
GB 275 Slavery/Box 8/137
Title
Francis Graham. Letter to Perrin.
Date(s)
- 10 December 1807 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
5 pages; paper
Context area
Name of creator
(fl 1804-15)
Biographical history
Graham took over from William Sutherland as Perrin's planting attorney in 1804.
Repository
Archival history
Formerly D239/M/E/18007, Derbyshire Record Office.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Incorporates a duplicate of Graham’s letter of 20 November 1807.
Offers updates on Perrin’s estates, with reference to a landslide on ‘negro grounds’, and reports the purchase of ten new slaves. Manuscript.