77. Jamaica.- Bright family ( Bristol merchants & slave traders of Bright, Dean & Co. ) Accounts book, comprising business and personal expenditure, including purchasing books and pictures, manuscript, 284pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, foxed and browned, some wormholes, upper joint broken, original reversed calf, worn, joints and spine split with loss, folio, Kingston, Jamaica & Bristol, 4th July 1765 - 31st March 1785.
est. £600 – £800
"Kingston Jamaica 31st December 1768. .68 Negro Account for a new Negro Girl ex the Ruby Capt: Bright now call'd Beatrice £34 and Duty 20/ 35.0.0".
A detailed account book of a successful merchant family trading in Bristol and Jamaica. Various members of the family are mentioned in relation to the Brookhouse Estate including Lowbridge, Mary, Dorothy and their mother, Dorothy Bright. Other names include Henry Bright who lived in Queen Square, Bristol and Richard Bright.
Items traded include cheese, beef, shoes, pork, cordage, "Taunton ale"; sugar, "Linseed Oil"; "Shag Tobacco"; "Old Rum"; "92 milled Dollars"; "Irish Cloth" etc.