Susie Scots in the West Indies 1707-1857 <http://books.google.com/books?id=qEh7ZNngcRkC&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=nisbet+david+a+merchant+in+st+kitts+1776&source=web&ots=sl5gRWR84D&sig=nU7ZOHoB9N1Sr190N1wZ3xsADm8> by David Dobson has been digitised by Google Books (I see you have a Gmail address). It is "A work for those wishing to identify individual Scots who were temporarily or permanently in the West Indies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." It lists them alphabetically with just a simple citation of the source of his reference to each one. Your extract is taken from p.87 of Vol II. The complete entry reads: Nisbet, David - a merchant in St Kitts, 1776 [NLS.MS.#8793/4} If you Google "NLS.MS.#8793/4" you will find that it was also cited in "Transport Problems of Glasgow West India Merchants during the American War of Independence, 1775-83" by T.M. Devine, published in **Baron F*** Duckham's */Transport History Volume 4 (1972)/ You may have to find out from the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh what that "Manuscript" actually is. It might be a letter written in 1776 from St Kitts by David Nisbet Peter Moll Tortola BVI Susie wrote 10/01/2008: > Hello everyone. I have just come across a scribbled note (my own scribble) > of an extract from Scots in the West Indies (Vol II) by David Dobson. For > some reason, I didn't note down what the date actually meant. Can anyone > enlighten me? The nearest copy of the book to me is over 100 miles away, so > it's difficult to check this myself. The extract reads: > Nisbet, David - a merchant in St Kitts, 1776 > > Any other info on Nisbets from St Kitts (not Nevis) would also be most > welcome, if anyone has any. Many thanks.