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Collection: Slavery, Exploitation, and Trade in the West Indies, 1759–1832    Volumes    Business records

This volume includes a variety of financial documents relating to Phillips’ estates, such as account, receipt, and cash books. There are also inventories, valuations, and other business records such as instructions for agents and for enslaved workers, shipping documentation, and registers of enslaved people on his estates. The documents date from 1759 to 1813.

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View document: Calculations, [late 18th century].

Calculations, [late 18th century]

CALCULATIONS [probably made by Nathaniel Phillips] of the value of various parts of his estates in Jamaica. (NLW ref. 544-6)

Date:1759-1799
Contributor:Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Identifier:71811b01
View document: Account, 1759 Jan. 31.

Account, 1759 Jan. 31

ACCOUNT of Nathaniel Phillips senior, with James Mailhet, Jamaica. (NLW ref. 9463)

Date:1759-1759
Contributor:National Library of Wales
Identifier:71811b02
View document: Account book, 1760 July 1 to 1792 Dec. 16.

Account book, 1760 July 1 to 1792 Dec. 16

ACCOUNT BOOK of the partnership of Mailhet and Phillips, Nathaniel Phillips, senior, and Nathaniel Phillips, junior, in England and Jamaica. (NLW ref. 9399)

Date:1760-1792
Contributor:Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Identifier:71811b03
View document: Inventory, 1762 Dec. 9 to 1765 March 8.

Inventory, 1762 Dec. 9 to 1765 March 8

INVENTORY of the goods and chattels of Richard Swarton of Jamaica (see No. 3327), consisting mostly of slaves, letters of administration of the will of the same dated 9 Dec....

Date:1762-1765
Contributor:National Library of Wales
Identifier:71811b04
View document: Accounts, 1770 July to 1783 April 30.

Accounts, 1770 July to 1783 April 30

ACCOUNTS of Nathaniel Phillips of Jamaica with Messrs. Hibbert, Purrier and Horton, London, in respect of business carried out by them on behalf of Nathaniel Phillips, including accounts of the...

Date:1770-1783
Contributor:Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Identifier:71811b05
View document: Receipt book, 1771 Oct. 3 to 1775 Sept. 5.

Receipt book, 1771 Oct. 3 to 1775 Sept. 5

RECEIPT BOOK belonging to Nathaniel Phillips. (NLW ref. 9420 - N.B. It proved very difficult capture images of the parts of this volume due to the number of fold-outs and...

Date:1771-1775
Contributor:National Library of Wales
Identifier:71811b06
View document: Records of business transactions, 1775 Nov. 17 to 1780 April 30.

Records of business transactions, 1775 Nov. 17 to 1780 April 30

RECORDS of business transactions executed by Hibbert, Purrier and Horton, merchants, on behalf of Nathaniel Phillips in connection with the latter's Jamaica interests, including accounts, insurances of cargoes of sugar...

Date:1775-1780
Contributor:National Library of Wales
Identifier:71811b07
View document: Instructions, 1780 July 22.

Instructions, 1780 July 22

INSTRUCTIONS to his attorneys for the care and management of the plantation and property of John Gardner, Garden River Plantation, St. Thomas in the East, Jamaica. (NLW ref. 8990)

Date:1780-1780
Contributor:National Library of Wales
Identifier:71811b09
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