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An entire written in Barbados on 25th September 1796 addressed to St George, Grenada.
There are no marks of any sort so it must have been carried privately and smuggled ashore in
contravention of the regulations. It is from one clergyman to another who was quite happy to cheat
the government out of its legitimate taxation.

3 am happy, to fin d ...M a t the colony- Li in a fair way, of recovering from its Cate
distressed situation, and o f enjoying, again the comfort and tranquillity of ^British
Qovemment. I originally thought that this referred to the Treaty of Versailles which restored
Grenada to British rule in 1783, but it probably refers to an internal revolt in 1795 led by Julian
Fedon.
Jn answer to your enquiry respecting M ho Carr, 3 can assure your, friend that
she is still alive.............................She is old and of course somewhat infirm , But hearty and

Cihely to due some years yet. Us to M r James Cunliffe her son, whom you mention, 3
can assure you also from m y own hnowledye that he is a very honest industrious man,
By no- means in indigent circumstances. 3te has a Cargo fam ily which he supports very
respectaBly from a sm all property of Cand and negroes, and his Business as a coffin
maher, and your friend m ay rest him self satisfied that as Cong as the Bills are paid
and the certificates sent the old woman is alive. M r Cunliffe is a man of too fair a
character to attem pt any imposition on him .........3 have shown him your letter and Both
himself and mother have Begged 3 w ould request of you if it is in your power to give

her some information of the two children she carried with her to England and left them
there with M r Carr. She eldest was a daughter, Baptised Jane in M arch 5 9 — and the
second a Boy, Baptised M arh W illiam in Uugust 62. She has not heard anything of
them for some time. Us you seem to know so much of his history 3 suppose you are not
ignorant, that this M r 3 homos Carr married the old Cady who was then the widow
Cunliffe, in JVovemBer 57, then after doing some years with her he went to Umerica
where his father was. Upon his fathers death his elder Brother Became heir to his estate,
But did not Cong survive his father, upon which this M r Carr went to Cngland, where or