West India Committee Records
SC89

Summary Information
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents note
Administrative Information
Collection Inventory: Minutes to meetings; Notebooks; Scrapbooks; Immigration Documents; Correspondence and Documents; West India Committee, Oversized; West India Committee, Oversized; West India Committee, Oversized

Summary Information

Repository: The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies
Creator: West India Committee Records.
Title: West India Committee Records
ID: SC89
Date: 1661-1953
Extent: 5.0 Linear feet
Language: English

Preferred Citation note

West India Committee Records. The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

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Biographical/Historical note

The West India Committee comprised merchants, traders and absentee planters engaged in West Indian trade in the eighteenth century. It functioned as a pressure group for West Indian interests during the era of the abolition of slavery. The Library of the West India Committee is held on deposit at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London.

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Scope and Contents note

The records include minute books of the general meetings of the Committee of Planters and Merchants together with its standing committees; Minutes of the Literary Committee; Minutes of the Committee of West India Merchants and other miscellaneous records.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies

St. Augustine
868-662-2002 Ext 82132

Custodial History note

The minute books were purchased by the Trinidad and Tobago Government and deposited at UWI Library. Microfilm copies of these are held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Additional West India Committee papers were acquired from the University of Warwick in March 1988.

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Collection Inventory

Minutes to meetings
West India Merchants
No. 1- Minutes - West India Merchants. 1769, April - 1779, April.	Box 1	Folder 1
No. 2- Minutes - West India Merchants. 1779- 1783	Box 1	Folder 2
Missing period 1784-1794
No. 4- Minutes - West India Merchants. 1794, March 28 - 1802, December 17.	Box 1	Folder 3
No. 5- Minutes - West India Merchants. 1803, April 29 - 1804, July 4. Includes petition to stop the abolition of the slave trade.	Box 2	Folder 1
No. 8- Minutes - West India Merchants. 1804, September 11-1827, July 13.	Box 2	Folder 2
Minutes - West India Merchants. 1828, January 9 - 1843, February 10.	Box 2	Folder 3
West India Planters and Merchants
Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1785, May 17- 1792, December.	Box 2	Folder 4
Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1793, February 19 - 1801, April 15.	Box 2	Folder 5
Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1801, December 10 - 1804, June 9.	Box 3	Folder 1
Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1808, February 14-1822, March 12.	Box 3	Folder 2
Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1822, March 22 - 1829, April 8.	Box 3	Folder 3
Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1829, April 28th - 1834, February 12.	Box 3	Folder 4
West India Acting Committee
West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1829, May 20 - 1833, July 9.	Box 3	Folder 5
West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1833, July 17 - 1843, June 6.	Box 4	Folder 1
West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1843, June 13 - 1844, December 10.	Box 4	Folder 2
West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1845, January 4 -1851, July 25. (Filed in box 10) General note 1. Rise of prices of sugar/ sugar estate. 2. Promotion of overseers. 3. Coffee plantation. 4. Monthly & half-monthly minutes. 5. Special meetings.
West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1852, January 9 - 1857, February 19.	Box 4	Folder 3
West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1860, January - 1866, September. General note Emancipation of Slaves in Cuba, 25th September 1866	Box 4	Folder 4
West India Sub-Committees Scope and Contents note Minute books from various sub committees
Sub-Committee of West India Merchants. 1799, October 5 - 1800 May 30	Box 4	Folder 6
Sub-Committee to Protect the Interest of the Colonies Through the Press- Minutes from 1823, June 30 - 1829, December 16.	Box 5	Folder 1
Sub-Committee of West India Merchants. 1828, January 15 - 1830, March 10.	Box 5	Folder 2
Sub-committees Minute boook.1903, June 11 - 1934, March 19.	Box 5	Folder 3
General Purpose Committee
West India Committee - General Purpose Committee. Minute book 20: 1882, January 26 - 1889, January 17.	Box 5	Folder 4
West India Committee - General Purpose Committee. Minute book 21A: 1889, January 29 - 1901, June 27.	Box 5	Folder 5
Executive Committee
West India Committee- Executive Committee Minute book 22: 1901, July 1 - 1904, July 7.	Box 5	Folder 6
West India Committee- Executive Committee Minute book, 1909, February 11 - 1916, October 12.	Box 6	Folder 1
West India Committee - Aviation Committee Minute book: 1921, June 9th - 1929, May 9.	Box 6	Folder 2
West India Committee - Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for the Issue of Exchequer-Bills advanced to Persons connected to the Islands of Grenada and St. Vincent appointed by the Act of Parliament of the 35th Geo: III Cap: 127. 1795, June 27 - 1797, September 1st.	Box 6	Folder 3
West India Committee - Minutes of the Demerara & Berbice Committee, 1825, November 19 - 1930, March 5.	Box 6	Folder 4
West India Committee - Demerara Commission, Minute Book: 1870, May 24 - 1872, January 17.	Box 6	Folder 5
West India Committee - Jamaica Standing Committee- Minute book, 1910, January 20 - 1926, March 25.	Box 6	Folder 6
West India Committee - Literary Committee Minute book: 1830, November 24 - 1839, March, 30.	Box 6	Folder 7
West India Committee - Standing Committee Minute book. 1834, April 9 - 1850, May 3.	Box 7	Folder 1
West India Committee - Sugar Bounties Committee Minute book 27: 1887, February 17 - 1890, April 16.	Box 7	Folder 2
Minutes, Memorials, Newspaper clippings, etc of Planters & Merchants, 1825, February - 1830, May.	Box 7	Folder 3
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Notebooks
West India Committee: Coronation of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth- A Souvenir from Barbados, 1937, May 12.	Box 7	Folder 4
West India Committee: Documents transmitted to the Board of Trade by W.R Keith Douglas Esq. A.P on the existing distresses of the British West India Colonists, 1830, May 19 - October, 6.	Box 7	Folder 5
West India Committee: History of Barbados, 1666 -1874.	Box 7	Folder 6
West India Committee: Letter book of Mr. F. Alleyne, 1799, July 5 - 1804, February 12.	Box 7	Folder 7
West India Committee: Letter book, 1802	Box 7	Folder 8
West India Committee: Letters received- Chinese Emigration (1) 1858, July 6 - 1859, June 25.	Box 8	Folder 1
West India Committee: Letters sent- Chinese Emigration (1), 1858, June 3 - 1859, December 25.	Box 8	Folder 2
West India Committee: Letters received- Chinese Emigration (2), 1859, July 13 - 1861, March 8.	Box 8	Folder 3
West India Committee: Letters sent - Chinese Emigration (2), 1859, December 27 - 1861, December 23.	Box 8	Folder 4
West India Committee: Chinese Immigration, Minute book, 1858, April 9 - 1861, December 20.	Box 8	Folder 5
West India Committee: Letters and Memoranda 1866, September 26 - 1870, April 4.	Box 8	Folder 6
West India Committee: Memoranda 1881, February 18 - 1883, February 8.	Box 8	Folder 7
West India Committee: Memorandum book, 1858, December 5 - 1860, May 15: includes information on Trinidad railway.	Box 8	Folder 8
West India Committee: List of Standing Committees- Planters & Merchants, 1800	Box 8	Folder 9
West India Committee: Notebook of circulation transactions of items in a library, 1940-1973.	Box 8	Folder 10
Notebook of Special meetings of the West India Planters and Merchants, 1897, December 20 - 1898 February 17.	Box 8	Folder 11
West India Committee: Documents covering Petitions to the Government of British Guiana, 1815.	Box 8	Folder 12
Petitions and Correspondence with Government etc. including sugar & rum from 1825, February 11 - 1830, June 30.	Box 9	Folder 1
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Scrapbooks
West India Committee: Scrapbook includes ephemera, invitations cards for the Committee's banquet, 1921	Box 9	Folder 2
West India Committee: Scrapbook, with correspondence and other materials for the Jubilee publication of the West India Committee Circular. 1936	Box 9	Folder 3
West India Committee: Scrapbook including newspaper clippings and other materials regarding the 1937 dinner.	Box 9	Folder 4
West India Committee: Scrapbook including newspaper clippings for the Empire Exhibition, 1938.	Box 9	Folder 5
West India Committee: Scrapbook of Newspaper clippings, 1663-1935	Box 9	Folder 6
West India Committee: Newspaper clippings, photographs, clipping of letters December 1901-1902 & 1903.	Box 9	Folder 7
West India Committee: Newspaper clippings, Volume 9 with Index, 1661-1927	Box 9	Folder 8
West India Committee: Notebook on Barbados including 1834-1851	Box 11	Folder 1
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West India Committee: Account book, 1826 -1838	Box 11	Folder 2
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Immigration Documents
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration- Correspondence, 1854 - 1857	Box 12	Folder 1
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1858; January, February, April	Box 12	Folder 2
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1858- May, June, July	Box 12	Folder 3
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1858- September, August	Box 12	Folder 4
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1858- October	Box 12	Folder 5
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1858- November	Box 12	Folder 6
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1858- December	Box 12	Folder 7
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1859- January	Box 12	Folder 8
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1859- February	Box 12	Folder 9
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence,1859- March	Box 12	Folder 10
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence,1859- April	Box 12	Folder 11
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1859- May	Box 12	Folder 12
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1859- June	Box 12	Folder 13
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1859- July	Box 12	Folder 14
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1859- August	Box 12	Folder 15
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1859- September	Box 12	Folder 16
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1859- October, November	Box 12	Folder 17
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1859- December	Box 12	Folder 18
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1859	Box 12	Folder 19
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1860	Box 12	Folder 20
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1861	Box 12	Folder 21
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, 1862	Box 12	Folder 22
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Correspondence, Accounts with Mr. Thomas Gerard, 1859	Box 12	Folder 23
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Act	Box 12	Folder 24
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Agreement with Mr. Thomas Gerard	Box 12	Folder 25
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Allotment of Immigrants, British Guiana	Box 12	Folder 26
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Colonial Treasury fund	Box 12	Folder 27
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Committee Accounts, 1860- 1861	Box 12	Folder 28
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Fund	Box 12	Folder 29
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Legal Agreement for travellers to the W.I. & Cuba	Box 12	Folder 30
West India Committee Records: Ordinance for Chinese; Immigration to British Guiana	Box 12	Folder 31
West India Committee Records: Ordinance for Chinese; Immigration to Trinidad	Box 12	Folder 32
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration; Receipts & Notes	Box 12	Folder 33
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration - Royal George	Box 13	Folder 1
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration - Royal George and General Wyndham	Box 13	Folder 2
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration - Subscribers	Box 13	Folder 3
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration- Subscribers' Account	Box 13	Folder 4
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration- Subscribers; Guyana & Trinidad	Box 13	Folder 5
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration - Ships and shipping	Box 13	Folder 6
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration- Ships and shipping, Royal George and General Wyndham	Box 13	Folder 7
West India Committee Records: Chinese immigration- Summary of passenger forms	Box 13	Folder 8
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Correspondence and Documents
West India Committee Records: Correspondence - James Seton, 1796 - 1800	Box 13	Folder 9
West India Committee Records: Correspondence - 1800s	Box 13	Folder 10
West India Committee Records: Correspondence - 1920 - 1953	Box 13	Folder 11
West India Committee Records: Correspondence - Appointment of Major John Mars Rawlins, 1828	Box 13	Folder 12
West India Committee Records: Caribbean maps 18th century by Bryan Edwards	Box 13	Folder 14
West India Committee Records: Commonwealth Sugar Agreement, 1951	Box 13	Folder 15
West India Committee Records: Mycology & plant diseases - December publication	Box 13	Folder 16
West India Committee Records: An appraisal of the plantation Mary by Robert and John Douglas, (location of the estate unclear) 1802	Box 13	Folder 13
West India Committee Records: Incomplete manuscripts on conditions in St. Lucia for development - 19th century.	Box 13	Folder 17
West India Committee Records: Index to persons named in land sales, 1726 - 1732	Box 13	Folder 18
West India Committee Records: List of Negros belonging to Dunfermline Estate, Grenada - 1796, July 1.	Box 13	Folder 19
West India Committee Records: Envelopes	Box 13	Folder 20
West India Committee Records: Newspaper clippings- 1936	Box 13	Folder 21
West India Committee Records: Notes on processing sugar & sugar refining.	Box 13	Folder 22
West India Committee Records: Plantation stock Records- 1798	Box 13	Folder 23
West India Committee Records: Pre-20th century prints Caribs & Columbus	Box 13	Folder 24
West India Committee Records: Post war immigration to the West Indies- 1944	Box 13	Folder 25
West India Committee Records: Publications	Box 13	Folder 26
West India Committee Records: Receipts	Box 13	Folder 27
West India Committee Records: Records of signatures	Box 13	Folder 28
West India Committee Records: Register, baptism of Christians, St. George Basseterre, St. Kitts - 1752 - 1799	Box 13	Folder 29
West India Committee Records: Register of baptisms, marriages, births (possibly St. Kitts) 1719-1726, 1791	Box 13	Folder 30
West India Committee Records: Register of burials, births and marriages at Nichola Town, St. Kitts	Box 13	Folder 31
West India Committee Records: Register of burials at St. George, St. Kitts - 1783 - 1797	Box 13	Folder 32
West India Committee Records: Register of marriage records at St. George Basseterre, St. Kitts, 1748-1800.	Box 13	Folder 33
West India Committee Records: Burial records- 1747 - 1792	Box 13	Folder 34
West India Committee Records: Marriages, baptisms and Burials- 1719 - 1792	Box 13	Folder 35
West India Committee Records: Ship log for Roddam - 1902	Box 13	Folder 36
West India Committee Records: Speeches and notes on Belize, 1918-1927.	Box 13	Folder 37
West India Committee Records: St. Kitts- Last will and testament of J.M Rawlins.	Box 13	Folder 38
West India Committee Records: Subscriptions for 1897.	Box 13	Folder 39
West India Committee Records: Sugar bounty	Box 13	Folder 40
West India Committee Records: Sugar Estates, British Guiana, 1905-1910.	Box 13	Folder 41
West India Committee Records: Sugar Production, Trinidad, 1907-1909.	Box 13	Folder 42
West India Committee Records: Sugar Production, Trinidad, 1905-1910	Box 13	Folder 43
West India Committee Records: Sugar quota certificates 1934-1937	Box 13	Folder 44
West India Committee Records: Sugar statistics	Box 13	Folder 45
West India Committee Records: Miscellaneous	Box 13	Folder 46
West India Committee Records: War Time Ephemera - 1945.	Box 13	Folder 47
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West India Committee, Oversized		Box 14
West India Committee: Ledger account sheets dealing with imports of sugar from Jamaica, 1744 - 1826.	Box 14	Folder 1
Stock certificates	Box 14	Folder 2
Plantation transactions 1860	Box 14	Folder 3
West India Committee: Chinese immigration ship regulations	Box 14	Folder 4
Correspondence on Dumfermline estate, Grenada 1796	Box 14	Folder 5
West India Committee: Photocopy of minutes of West India Merchant Committee, 1803 - 1804	Box 14	Folder 6
Grace Bay, Antigua (Print)	Box 14	Folder 7
Instrument of appointment to Thomas A.[Hardlinan] 1828
Correspondence on Chinese immigration, Trinidad 1858
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West India Committee, Oversized		Box 15
Barbados map: contour lines [undated]
An indenture for lands in St. Kitts, 1787
An indenture for lands in St. Kitts in 1758
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West India Committee, Oversized		Box 16
A Deed for Floating Mortgage for the Paradise Estate, Grenada, 1828. Including a list of slaves.
Grant of Negro Slaves for the island of Tobago, 1807.
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The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies

West India Committee Records SC89

Table of Contents

Summary Information

Preferred Citation note

Biographical/Historical note

Scope and Contents note

Administrative Information

Publication Information

Custodial History note

Collection Inventory

Minutes to meetings

West India Merchants

No. 1- Minutes - West India Merchants. 1769, April - 1779, April.

No. 2- Minutes - West India Merchants. 1779- 1783

Missing period 1784-1794

No. 4- Minutes - West India Merchants. 1794, March 28 - 1802, December 17.

No. 5- Minutes - West India Merchants. 1803, April 29 - 1804, July 4. Includes petition to stop the abolition of the slave trade.

No. 8- Minutes - West India Merchants. 1804, September 11-1827, July 13.

Minutes - West India Merchants. 1828, January 9 - 1843, February 10.

West India Planters and Merchants

Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1785, May 17- 1792, December.

Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1793, February 19 - 1801, April 15.

Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1801, December 10 - 1804, June 9.

Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1808, February 14-1822, March 12.

Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1822, March 22 - 1829, April 8.

Minutes from the West India Planters and Merchants. 1829, April 28th - 1834, February 12.

West India Acting Committee

West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1829, May 20 - 1833, July 9.

West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1833, July 17 - 1843, June 6.

West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1843, June 13 - 1844, December 10.

West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1845, January 4 -1851, July 25. (Filed in box 10)

General note

West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1852, January 9 - 1857, February 19.

West India Acting Committee - Minutes. 1860, January - 1866, September.

General note

West India Sub-Committees

Scope and Contents note

Sub-Committee of West India Merchants. 1799, October 5 - 1800 May 30

Sub-Committee to Protect the Interest of the Colonies Through the Press- Minutes from 1823, June 30 - 1829, December 16.

Sub-Committee of West India Merchants. 1828, January 15 - 1830, March 10.

Sub-committees Minute boook.1903, June 11 - 1934, March 19.

General Purpose Committee

West India Committee - General Purpose Committee. Minute book 20: 1882, January 26 - 1889, January 17.

West India Committee - General Purpose Committee. Minute book 21A: 1889, January 29 - 1901, June 27.

Executive Committee

West India Committee- Executive Committee Minute book 22: 1901, July 1 - 1904, July 7.

West India Committee- Executive Committee Minute book, 1909, February 11 - 1916, October 12.

West India Committee - Aviation Committee Minute book: 1921, June 9th - 1929, May 9.

West India Committee - Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for the Issue of Exchequer-Bills advanced to Persons connected to the Islands of Grenada and St. Vincent appointed by the Act of Parliament of the 35th Geo: III Cap: 127. 1795, June 27 - 1797, September 1st.

West India Committee - Minutes of the Demerara & Berbice Committee, 1825, November 19 - 1930, March 5.

West India Committee - Demerara Commission, Minute Book: 1870, May 24 - 1872, January 17.

West India Committee - Jamaica Standing Committee- Minute book, 1910, January 20 - 1926, March 25.

West India Committee - Literary Committee Minute book: 1830, November 24 - 1839, March, 30.

West India Committee - Standing Committee Minute book. 1834, April 9 - 1850, May 3.

West India Committee - Sugar Bounties Committee Minute book 27: 1887, February 17 - 1890, April 16.

Minutes, Memorials, Newspaper clippings, etc of Planters & Merchants, 1825, February - 1830, May.

Notebooks

West India Committee: Coronation of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth- A Souvenir from Barbados, 1937, May 12.

West India Committee: Documents transmitted to the Board of Trade by W.R Keith Douglas Esq. A.P on the existing distresses of the British West India Colonists, 1830, May 19 - October, 6.

West India Committee: History of Barbados, 1666 -1874.

West India Committee: Letter book of Mr. F. Alleyne, 1799, July 5 - 1804, February 12.

West India Committee: Letter book, 1802

West India Committee: Letters received- Chinese Emigration (1) 1858, July 6 - 1859, June 25.

West India Committee: Letters sent- Chinese Emigration (1), 1858, June 3 - 1859, December 25.

West India Committee: Letters received- Chinese Emigration (2), 1859, July 13 - 1861, March 8.

West India Committee: Letters sent - Chinese Emigration (2), 1859, December 27 - 1861, December 23.

West India Committee: Chinese Immigration, Minute book, 1858, April 9 - 1861, December 20.

West India Committee: Letters and Memoranda 1866, September 26 - 1870, April 4.

West India Committee: Memoranda 1881, February 18 - 1883, February 8.

West India Committee: Memorandum book, 1858, December 5 - 1860, May 15: includes information on Trinidad railway.

West India Committee: List of Standing Committees- Planters & Merchants, 1800

West India Committee: Notebook of circulation transactions of items in a library, 1940-1973.

Notebook of Special meetings of the West India Planters and Merchants, 1897, December 20 - 1898 February 17.

West India Committee: Documents covering Petitions to the Government of British Guiana, 1815.

Petitions and Correspondence with Government etc. including sugar & rum from 1825, February 11 - 1830, June 30.

Scrapbooks

West India Committee: Scrapbook includes ephemera, invitations cards for the Committee's banquet, 1921

West India Committee: Scrapbook, with correspondence and other materials for the Jubilee publication of the West India Committee Circular. 1936

West India Committee: Scrapbook including newspaper clippings and other materials regarding the 1937 dinner.

West India Committee Records
SC89