Fellow listers, I thought some of you might be interested in reading the brief letter by Alexander Hamilton about the hurricane that passed directly over Christiansted. It is posted at http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/hamilton.html Happy hunting everyone, Laura in North Carolina On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 04:00 AM, CARIBBEAN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > CARIBBEAN-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 118 > > Today's Topics: > #1 James Knight, a Wedderburn slave ["PG" > <pgK9@alpesprovence.net>] > #2 marriages in Grenada ["Lenora Anderson" > <ldanderson@sbcg] > #3 Montserrat Records [AlannahB@aol.com] > #4 PHOTO TRIBUTES ["atransition" > <customersvc@atransi] > > Administrivia: > To send a message to the Caribbean Discussion List, send the email to: > Caribbean-L@rootsweb.com > > The CaribbeanGenWeb website is located at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw The CaribbeanGenWeb Project is a > free on-line resource dedicated to promoting genealogical research and > participation in the West Indies. > > > > ______________________________ > > > From: "PG" <pgK9@alpesprovence.net> > Date: Mon Apr 28, 2003 9:10:13 AM US/Eastern > To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: James Knight, a Wedderburn slave > > > Back, after a long absence!.... > > .... with a book recommendation. Recently published, a reviewer > comments: > "The Scottish author James Robertson was much praised for his first > novel, > The Fanatic. His second, Joseph Knight, is a book of such quality as to > persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the > writer, > that it's through the past that we might understand ourselves best, > that > it's in the past that the imagination can be most free, but also most > authentic. Based on fact, and built out of hefty chunks of alternately > tender and shocking fiction, the novel revolves around an 18th-century > incident in which a black slave brought to Scotland from Jamaica fled > his > master and was subsequently set free by the courts on the grounds that > the > slave laws of Jamaica had no place in Scotland. The slave, Joseph > Knight, > had been the property of Sir John Wedderburn, a former Jacobite, who > as a > teenager had fled the butchery of Culloden and sailed to the West > Indies > with his brothers to rebuild the family fortune......". > > And from another... > > "Exiled to Jamaica after Culloden, Sir John Wedderburn makes a fortune > as a > sugar planter. On returning to Scotland, he brings with him Joseph > Knight, > one of the first slaves in Scotland. Changes in the intellectual, > social and > political climate in Scotland lead master and slave to engage in a > court > battle: one man trying to retain his property, the other to gain his > freedom. Ranging from the back streets of Dundee to a mining community > in > Fife and the heart of Enlightenment Edinburgh, this beautifully > constructed > and paced novel illuminates an almost forgotten episode in Scottish > history......" > > Sir John Wedderburn, first son of the executed Sir John, (lifeguard of > Bonny > Prince Charlie at Culloden), was considered one of the more 'lenient' > members of the Jamaican plantocracy. His younger brother Dr. James was > not > so well disposed to his slaves, as his illegitimate son Robert > Wedderburn > describes in his autobiographical account "The Horrors of Slavery". > Two > excellent reads... > > "James Knight" £10.99, by James Robertson is published by Fourth Estate > (Harper Collins) ISBN: 0-00-715024-5 > http://www.fireandwater.com/Books/default.asp?id=25996 > > "The Horrors of Slavery" by Robert Wedderburn, Markus Wiener > Publishers. > ISBN 1-55876-050-4 and ISBN 1-55876-051-2. (£10 from Amazon) > > Iain McCalman, Australian National University, the author of Radical > Underworld Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, > 1795-1840, > edited and introduces the texts. > > (Robert Wedderburn) "This colourful, disreputable character is > important to > the African-American tradition. He became a leading proponent not only > of > abolition, but of what would be termed today a black theology of > liberation, > and a major figure in England's republican underground of the Georgian > and > Regency periods. He was at once a witness and victim of West Indian > slavery. > His autobiography is a vivid indictment of an execrable system; its > accounts > burn themselves into the reader's mind like the sting of the slaver's > whip." > -Publishers Weekly > > Peter > The Wedderburn Pages : www.wedderburn.ws - including the G.H.O.S.T. > glossary > : Genealogy: Help with Old Scottish Terms > > ______________________________ > > > From: "Lenora Anderson" <ldanderson@sbcglobal.net> > Date: Mon Apr 28, 2003 10:53:56 AM US/Eastern > To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: marriages in Grenada > > > Does anyone know when the earliest Marriage Records in Grenada were > recorded? > Thanks, > Lenora > > ______________________________ > > > From: AlannahB@aol.com > Date: Mon Apr 28, 2003 1:28:02 PM US/Eastern > To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Montserrat Records > > > Dear Listers, > Recent information from the Montserrat National Trust, regarding > Montserrat > records, reveals that the only records that have been destroyed are > the ones > that were lost in > the Courthouse fire in 1972. Quite a numbers of records were > destroyed such > as birth records, marriage licenses and death records. No records to > their > knowledge were lost in the Volcano. The Courthouse and the Public > Library > managed to retrieve all of their records and documents before any real > damage was done and so did the Trust. > I have not as yet heard from the Courthouse or the Public Library but > will > let the List know when I do. > Alannah > > ______________________________ > > > From: "atransition" <customersvc@atransition.com> > Date: Mon Apr 28, 2003 9:31:46 PM US/Eastern > To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: PHOTO TRIBUTES > > > http://atransition.com/Gaynor/Tribute.htm > >