| Description | Mainly reports from Mr.Fearon, letters on money matters from London houses, and copies of communications to Jamaica by Lord Penrhyn. The Jmaican planters were in sore straits about this time, what with the imposition of martial law, heavy taxation, the French privateering, and interferences with the transports of several supplies from the United States. Also, the slow natural increase of negroes on the Pennant plantations gave considerable concern to owner and agent; it is well to quote the latter's dictum in his letter of Jan.26: "Every infant that can be raised on your estate is worth two you can purchase from a [Gulf of] Guinea factor". |