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- Creator:
- Ford, Francis, Sir, 1758-1801.
- Published / Created:
- 1790
- Call Number:
- Osborn c739
- Image Count:
- 152
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Autograph diary containing brief entries for most days of the year 1790. Subjects include Ford's daily activities; the weather; travel to and from Bridgetown; church services; social events with other planters; the arrival and departure of the packet boats from England; and purchases and other financial transactions.
- Description:
- Annotations on blank leaves in the printed almanac section of the volume concern weather; social appointments; and ship arrivals and departures., Bound with and inscribed in Perch's pocket almanac, calculated by Mr. Thomas Donohue....Barbados: Printed by Tho. Wtt. Perch, MDCCXC [1790]., Entries made from both front and back of volume., Purchased from Ken Spelman, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2011., and Sir Francis Ford (1758-1801) was the only son of the Barbados planter Francis Ford of Lears (1717-1772). He was educated at Lincoln's Inn and St. John's College, Cambridge, and married Mary Anson, daughter of George Anson (1731-1789) in 1785.. Created baronet in 1793, Ford was MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1793-1796. He died in Barbados in 1801 and left his estate to his son, Francis Ford (1787-1839).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Barbados.
- Subject (Name):
- Ford, Francis,--Sir,--1758-1801.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diary : manuscript.