The Fuller Letters, 1728-1755. Guns, slaves and finance
Details:
- Author(s) Crossley, David, & R V Saville (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1991
- Pages 307pp; illus
- Publisher Sussex Record Society
- Place Published Lewes
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- Name Women in business
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Largely transcriptions of 827 letters, 1728-55, written by the heads of the Fuller family - John Fuller, 1680-1745, and his sons John, 1706-55, and Stephen, 1716-99 - to Rose Fuller, 1708-77, who ran the family's Jamaican estates from 1734 to 1755, and to Thomas Fuller, 1715-80, a London sugar merchant. They give details of connections with Board of Ordnance, other ironmasters, West Indies estates, etc