72. Weather journal

Published/Created:

1786

Physical Description:

1 vol. ; 17.5 x 20 cm.

Notes:

Blank pages not digitized.

Topics:

Master and servant --Jamaica
Meteorology --Observations
Natural history --Jamaica
Navigation --Early works to 1800
Plantation life --Early works to 1800
Plantation life --Jamaica
Plantation overseers. --Jamaica
Plantation owners --Jamaica
Slave trade --Jamaica
Slaveholders --Jamaica
Slavery --Jamaica --Early works to 1800
Slaves --Jamaica --Social conditions
Sugar plantations --Early works to 1800
Sugar plantations --Jamaica

Topics:

Jamaica --Climate --Observations
Jamaica --Description and travel
Jamaica --Economic conditions
Jamaica --Social conditions
West Indies, British

Topics:

Cope, John, of Jamaica
Thistlewood, John
Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786

Language:

English

Genre:

drawings (AAT)
Historiography
illustrations (AAT)
Inventories
journals (accounts): diaries (AAT)
manuscripts (AAT)

Format:

Text

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Source Creator:

Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786

Source Title:

Thomas Thistlewood papers

Source Created:

1748-1792

Source Note:

The papers consist of diaries, weather journals, commonplace books, reading notes and other material documenting the life, work, and intellectual interests of the Jamaican planter and slaveowner Thomas Thistlewood. Daily entries in the diaries, which Thistlewood kept from 1748 until a few weeks before his death in 1786, are a rich source of information on plantation life and work, including management of sugar plantations and livestock plantations; economic and social relations among landowners, overseers and slaves; and Thistlewood's own professional, intellectual and sexual activities. Thirty-four years of weather journals chronicle the Jamaican climate, including the great hurricane of October 1780, while twenty volumes of reading notes, memoranda, inventories, lists of books, and other papers reveal Thistlewood's intellectual and scientific interests, such as botany and the collection of medicinal plants; chemistry; mathematics; and navigation.
Series II. Weather Journals.

Call Number:

OSB MSS 176

Box:

Box 9

Folder:

Folder 72

Orbis Record:

10177215

Finding Aid:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.thistle

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection

oid pointer:

12159629

Volume/Enumeration:

N. 72

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

12159113

PID:

digcoll:4064408