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Jamaica: Pre-Adhesive Postal Markings

Internal Letters Prior to Hand-Stamps
Frames 01-04 Pre-Adhesive
Grange Hill – Internal Letters, to and from Malcolm Laing
This pair of letters were carried the full length of the post road between Kingston and Grange Hill.

Letter Through the Post

From Grange Hill
18 Mar 1760
from G Dunnet to Kingston ‘By post’

Regarding the slow progress in making sugar
owing to the wet weather & want of strength;
complains much of rate’.

Letter Carried by Slave

From Kingston
11 Sept 1770 to
Mr. David Munro at Grange Hill

‘By Bachus Vera, Allegay & Iuamin
with a young horse’

Concerning their complaints
of mis-treatment.

“Four negroes named Bachus Vera, Allegay & Iuamin came here last night with complaints
and telling me that all the negroes on the Estate were gone into the woods. That they were ill used
KooKoo As it does not choose to give belief to negroes stories until I hear both sides of the affair
have ordered them to return to their work without being punished until I come up.
I am under a necessity of meeting some gentlemen at St. Toolies in Clarendon on business of a
consequence on my return from thence propose being with you, I can say nothing more on this
subject until I am better informed mean time I am Sir your humblest - Malcolm Laing”.