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The collected \"Notes\" consist of abstracts of the earliest known records of Bermuda settlers, and their value cannot be exaggerated, for many of the early settlers of Bermuda-or their descendants-removed to the mainland and were among the pioneer settlers of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe records given here are arranged by family and appear thereunder in chronological sequence. They consist of a progression of abstracts of wills, administrations, deeds, court orders, indentures, arrival records, and so on, pertaining to every member of the family from the original immigrant up to as near the year 1700 as the records allow. Of paramount interest, however, are the compiler's own notes, which in many cases establish family relationships and carry the family backward to England and forward to the mainland. 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In 1718 the first successful emigration from Ireland to New England occurred, laying the foundation for the large-scale settlement of colonial America by the \"Scots-Irish.\" This work is the seventh installment (and the fourth volume) in a series compiled by Mr. David Dobson that documents the departure of thousands of individuals who left Ireland for the promise of the New World between roughly 1670 and 1830. As many as half of the immigrants referred to here disembarked at Canadian ports in Ontario, while most of the rest entered North America through New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Seven is based mainly on archival sources in Canada, Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, and the U.S., together with contemporary newspapers and journals, a few published records, and some gravestone inscriptions from both sides of the Atlantic. In the majority of cases, Mr. Dobson's transcriptions provide some or all of the following: name of passenger, date of birth, name of ship, occupation in Ireland, reason for emigration, and, sometimes, place of origin in Ireland, place of disembarkation in the New World, date of arrival, number of persons in the household, and the source of the information.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2008, paper, 120 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806353937\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9976\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39710387077238,"sku":"102-9976","price":25.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9976.png?v=1727806915"},{"product_id":"102-9024","title":"The First Parish Register of Belize, 1794-1810, and the First Four Censuses, 1816-1826","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike most of Central America, Belize was originally the home to Mayan Indians. Occupied by Spain in the 16th century but relegated to a backwater status in its Empire, Belize fell under British control in the 1700s. Most of its 18th-century settlers came from Scotland, England, or Ireland, or were slaves imported from Africa. Belize's sea trade was extensive, so New Providence and other U.S. ports, as well as those in the West Indies, are mentioned in the records. Moreover, a number of Loyalists who fled the Carolinas at the end of the American Revolution settled in Belize (including Capt. James D. Yarborough, who gave the land for Yarborough Cemetery). Belize became an independent nation in 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume is a collection of some of the earliest British genealogical records known to survive for this nation. Compiled by Ms. Sonia Murray from originals at the Belize National Archives in Belmopan, the volume contains transcriptions of the oldest extant parish register (1794-1810) for Belize and four of its oldest censuses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe First Parish Register of St. John's Church (1794-1810)\u003c\/i\u003e contains records of birth, marriage, baptism, and death. The baptisms, for example, give the name of the infant; the date of, or age at, baptism; the names of parents; and, frequently, the names of grandparents. Death records identify the decedent by date and occupation, and occasionally by next of kin. Slaves or free blacks are usually so designated in all record categories. Owing to Belize's large Scottish influence, naming practices were influenced by the patronymic custom. In these cases women retained their maiden surnames throughout their lives, regardless of marital status. As the author points out, \"this is a blessing to genealogists, identifying women at a time and place in which many people died young, and quick remarriage was the rule.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe four censuses transcribed for the book (the household censuses of 1816, 1823 and 1826, as well as the slave census of 1820) convey a clear sense of the ethnic makeup of Belize society. Heads of household and slave masters, for example, are identified as white, colored, or free black. \"Coloured\" refers to free Amerindians and people of mixed race (white\/Indian, black\/Indian, white\/black, or white\/black\/Indian). Slaves could be black, mulatto, mixed race, or Amerindians or their descendants who had been slaves on the Mosquito Shore before 1776. Although head of household information is the most detailed in each census, we are given the name of every other person living in each household as well.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis fully indexed work identifies thousands of 18th- and early 19th-century inhabitants of Belize never before accessible to researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSonia Bennett Murray\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2010, paper, 310 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806354828\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39802956808310,"sku":"102-9024","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9024.png?v=1745005054"},{"product_id":"102-9343","title":"The Second Parish Register of Belize, 1813-1827","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith the First Newspaper: the \"Honduras Gazette,\" 1826-1827; the 1826 Census, Pages 209-236; the 1829 Census of Belize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume marks the second collection of early British genealogical records for Belize compiled by Ms. Sonia Murray from originals at the Belize National Archives in Belmopan. (Ms. Murray's previous effort, \u003ci\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The First Parish Register of Belize, 1794-1810, and the First Four Censuses, 1816-1826\" href=\"\/products\/102-9024\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe First Parish Register of Belize, 1794-1810, and the First Four Censuses, 1816-1826\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2010.) Like its predecessor, this work includes other vital information from supplementary sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe parish registers comprise about one-third of the volume, and they represent the registers of St. John's for baptism from 1814-1827 and burial for 1813, 1817-18, and 1820-28. (Although the baptismal register was begun in 1811, the earliest surviving entries commence with January 1814.) The baptismal register identifies the name of the infant; the date of, or age at, birth and baptism; the names of parents; and, frequently, the father's occupation. Death records identify the decedent by date of death and occupation, and sometimes by age at death or next of kin. An individual's race is usually so indicated. Not all the individuals referred to in the registers have found their way into the volume's index, as many inhabitants lacked surnames.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe short-lived \u003ci\u003eHonduras Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e was a rich source of local information. Primarily a publication of \"shipping news,\" the newspaper identifies the comings and goings of vessels by name, with the identities of their captains, passengers, cargo, etc. Published from July 1826 to October 1827, it also contained advertisements from local businessmen, outcomes of court cases, coroner's reports, and so forth. Ms. Murray has captured every nugget of genealogical significance from the \u003ci\u003eGazette's\u003c\/i\u003e pages, amounting to the middle third of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCensus records round out Ms. Murray's volume. The author discovered the remainder of the 1826 census in a folder at the National Archives subsequent to publication of her 2010 book. The 1829 census gives the names of all heads of household and all family members (but not their ages), and the names and ages of slaves. Like its predecessors, the 1829 census conveys a clear sense of the ethnic makeup of Belize society. Separate columns in the enumeration tabulate the number of men, women, and children in the household in each of four categories: white, colored, black, and slave. Men who were pensioned out of the Army and military widows who married settlers appear in the census, but men on active duty or their families do not.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMs. Murray's painstakingly transcribed new volume concludes with an index of names, places, and vessels of 6,000 entries. Like the inaugural volume, this one brings the early inhabitants of Belize within the reach of contemporary researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSonia Bennett Murray\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2011, paper, 326 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806355269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9343\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39802961231990,"sku":"102-9343","price":41.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9343.png?v=1727807019"},{"product_id":"102-8376","title":"They Came to Belize, 1750-1810","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCompiled from Records of Jamaica, the Mosquito Shore, and Belize at the British and Belize National Archives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonia Murray has devoted much of her adult life to the extraction and transcription of records pertaining to nation of Belize (formerly British Honduras). We have previously published her transcriptions of the earliest parish registers of Belize. This book is her most ambitious work yet, as it incorporates sources found over a twenty-year period at London's Guildhall, the Belize National Archives, the British Library, the Colindale Newspaper Library, and the National Heritage Library at Belmopan, Belize. In all, Ms. Murray identifies over 7,500 persons who lived or came to Belize from the middle of the 18th century to the first decade of the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBelize's population for this period was a mixture of Native American, African, Spanish, Scottish, English, and Irish, as well as a smattering of American Loyalists. This admixture, in part the result of Belize's active trade in mahogany, is reflected in the scores of documents itemized in this volume's contents, including the following: Amerindian Ancestors; Indian Slaves; American Loyalists; Spanish Inspectors in the Bay; Heads of Household in Belize; Spain and the Slave Trade; Traders on the Shore; Militia Lists; Trading with America; and much more. Ms. Murray has not only transcribed the source material but has also added lengthy [in some cases] and erudite annotations that shed light on the events and persons who figure in the story. In all cases the records place individuals in Belize at a moment in time; however, in many cases we also learn of family connections. 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In this, her fifth work of transcription, she has extensively researched the British National Archives at Kew, the Belize National Archives in Belize City, and the Belize City Registry as well as many other archives and private record collections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe scope of this work covers wills of the Mosquito Shore and Belize; original wills at the Belize National Archives; wills and estates at the Belize City Registry and at the Archives; private records that include wills, estates, deeds, and manumissions; magistrate's minutes such as court records, estates, and manumissions; extensive records and journal articles on ending the slave trade; shipping lists; the Abolition Act of 1833 and the records created from it; slave registers and sales 1823-1830; index to the 1834 registry of slaves; Belize slave compensation claims and awards; Belizeans in British censuses; the Honduras Land Titles Act; the lost 1861 census; baptisms at St John's parish, 1868-1880; notes on early families; index to the registry of wills 1760-1900, and a comprehensive index to persons mentioned in the records.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this work, Ms. Murray has not only transcribed the source material, she has also added lengthy and erudite annotations that shed light on the events and persons who figure in the records. 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Following a very helpful Introduction that explains some peculiarities of Belize records (e.g., the importance of Scottish patronymics, by which women kept their maiden names throughout their lives), Ms. Murray arranges her findings by record group.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe baptismal and burial registers for St. Johns Church specify newborns by date of birth and names of parents, and decedents by age at and date of death. Next follow cemetery inscriptions for St. George's Cave Cemetery, Church Street Cemetery, Yarborough Cemetery, and St. John's Cathedral. Richer in detail than the earlier records described, these provide the names of various family members, dates of birth, and miscellaneous information, along with the decedent's age at and date of death.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy far, the longest collection of records in this volume is Ms. Murray's transcriptions of the Belize censuses for 1832, 1835, and 1839. In general, these records indicate the names and ages of all persons living in a household, as well as more specific information (e.g., race, slave or free) for household heads.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRounding out the book are two collections of vital records Ms. Murray culled from the \u003ci\u003eBelize Advertiser\u003c\/i\u003e (1839-1840) and a variety of British newspapers. These entries are most detailed, ranging from simple obituaries to mini-genealogies of persons with Belize connections. 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A comprehensive index of names has been added to facilitate the reader's search for maiden names and the names of other persons mentioned in the passenger descriptions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmigration from Ireland to the Americas in the early modern period grew from a trickle to a torrent between the 17th century and the 19th century. Some emigrants left Ireland bound directly for the colonies as indentured servants. However, most Irishmen who settled in the Americas in the 17th century arrived as prisoners of war banished to the Plantations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Cromwell transported hundreds of Irish to islands in the West Indies, notably Barbados and especially Montserrat. Most 17th-century Irish found in the Americas were highly likely to be Roman Catholics who had opposed the English occupation of much of Ireland and who arrived as prisoners sold as indentured servants. By the end of the 17th century attempts at settlement by the Irish had occurred at locations stretching from Newfoundland to the Amazon River.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis picture changed in the early 18th century when most Irish emigrants to America were Anglican, Quakers, or Presbyterians. There was substantial emigration from the north of Ireland by Presbyterians whose ancestors had settled there from Scotland during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century. These \"Scotch Irish\" found that they were treated as second-class citizens by the Anglican Ascendancy of Ireland, and, consequently, from 1718, they began to settle in the North American mainland's thirteen colonies. 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Not generally known, however, is that Hotten included only a portion of the lists available to him. Nearly two-thirds of the important Barbados Census of 1679\/80 was not used and this left out more than half of the island's parish registers, all of the militia rolls, and various lists of landholders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThousands of immigrants settled on Barbados before planting new roots on the mainland and their records have gone undetected–until now, that is, for this work, based on records in the Public Record Office in London, supplies all of the material missing in Hotten. The parish registers give the names of all of those baptized or buried, with the dates and the names of the family members; the census returns list landowners' names with the number of freemen, servants, and slaves in the household; and the militia rolls list the militiamen by regiment and company, as well as the landowners responsible for furnishing troops. 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(For a list of Scottish emigrants to Barbados, see Barbados and Scotland, Links 1627–1877, by David Dobson.) Later Scottish transportees, such as Cromwellian prisoners of war, Covenanters, and criminals, were supplemented by a small flow emigrants from Glasgow and Edinburgh. Some of the survivors of the ambitious Darien Scheme, whereby Scotland hoped to set up an independent trading post in Panama, arrived in Jamaica and the smaller islands. Scots could also be found in the Dutch Caribbean islands.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the union of Scotland and England in 1707 and the lifting of restrictions on trade between these two countries, Scotland's trade with the islands expanded and so did its stream of immigration throughout the West Indies. To a larger extent than elsewhere, the colonies of the West Indies attracted Scots with skills or money to invest. Scotsmen figured prominently in the Indies sugar cane, cotton, and tobacco-growing businesses, a phenomenon which promoted trade between the Indies and the mainland ports of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, and Savannah. In due course, families moved between these various locations, and links were established. The Scottish population of the West Indies also increased when many Loyalists took refuge there following the American Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe work at hand is the second volume in this series. It is the outgrowth of Mr. Dobson's researches in the archives and libraries of Scotland, England, and Denmark and, together with \u003ci\u003eVolume I\u003c\/i\u003e, it represents the first listing devoted to Scottish inhabitants of the West Indies for the aforementioned period. Arranged alphabetically by surname, many of the entries in this volume were culled from Scottish newspapers like the \u003ci\u003eGlasgow Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eGreenock Advertiser\u003c\/i\u003e, in which notices would appear seeking to employ managers and servants. In all, the second volume identifies an additional 2,000 Scots not found in \u003ci\u003eVolume I\u003c\/i\u003e, who are identified by full name, island inhabited, date, and source of the information, and sometimes by occupation, parent(s) name(s), and education, and vessel upon which he\/she arrived. Jamaica would appear to be the main port of disembarkation for the people described here; however, readers will also discover Scots who traveled to St. Vincent, Grenada, Dominica, Tobago, Trinidad, St. Lucia, Antigua, Cuba, St. Kitts, St. Croix, and other ports of call.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2006, paper, 124 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806353128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9808\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41851188969590,"sku":"102-9808","price":25.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9808.png?v=1755621589"},{"product_id":"111-w8963","title":"A Narrative of Events: Since the First of August, 1834 By James Williams, An Apprenticed Laborer in Jamaica","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOW QUANTITY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this, one of the few autobiographies of a Caribbean slave, a young man describes his oppression under the apprenticeship system that replaced the British slave trade. Originally written in 1837 by James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican apprentice and former slave. \u003cem\u003eA Narrative of Events\u003c\/em\u003e documents the harsh working conditions on Jamaican plantations and the unjust treatment of the apprentices. Williams forcefully argues that the new system was actually worse than the one it replaced as planters and magistrates conspired to use the Jamaican legal system to effectively keep the apprentices in a type of \"legal bondage\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis account caused a tremendous outcry when it was first published in Britain, and was widely used by abolitionists to demonstrate to the greater public the evils of slavery. As such, it was central in the campaign to fully abolish slavery in all its forms in Great Britain's colonies. 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Subjected to bodily and sexual abuse by subsequent masters, she was bought and sold several times before she was ultimately freed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first black woman to break the bonds of slavery in the British colonies and publish a record of her experiences, Prince vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.  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Most of the Scots in the West Indies had been transported there as prisoners of war, political undesirables or common criminals, such as Jacobites, Cromwellian captives, Covenanters, as well as men and women taken from various jails in Scotland. Some Scottish colonials were entrepreneurs, like the ones who developed sugar and other plantations, and some were from landed families with funds to invest. Men recruited in Scotland, often through newspapers such as the \u003cem\u003eAberdeen Journal,\u003c\/em\u003e were expected to have commercial skills or agricultural experience, often to run plantations for absentee owners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe situation changed in 1763 with the end of the Seven Years War between France and Britain when certain islands, such as St. Lucia and Tobago, previously French, became British and the British government promoted settlement there. Small numbers of Scots went to the Dutch and Danish West Indies, in places such as St. Eustatius or St. Croix. Britain also acquired Dutch colonies on the east coast of South America, namely, Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice, where vast sugar plantations were developed. In that respect, Scottish emigration to the Caribbean differed from colonization to North America, which was generally undertaken by families. Scottish emigrants to the Caribbean were mostly men who chose to leave their families at home, possibly due to the unhealthy climate in the West Indies. Ships voyaging between Scotland and the Caribbean illustrate trade routes from Scotland, with passengers and manufactures such as linen and metalware on the outbound voyages, and raw materials, generally cotton, tobacco, sugar, and mahogany on the return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book provides an overview of Scots and the Caribbean; however, looking for more specialized source material dealing with particular islands, the following books of mine, all published by Clearfield Company, are available – \u003cem\u003eThe People of Jamaica, 1655-1855\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e The People of Barbados, 1625-1875\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e The People of the Leeward Islands, 1620-1860\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e The People of the Windward Islands, Trinidad, Tobago, and Curacao, 1620-1860\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e Barbados and Scottish Links, 1627-1877\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857, Part One \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003ePart Two\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Original Scots Colonists of Early America, Caribbean Supplement, 1611-1707\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2025, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 98 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359786\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e102-8764\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42574446592118,"sku":"102-8764","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8764.png?v=1759345533"},{"product_id":"102-9246","title":"Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857. Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003eScotland has had direct social and economic links with the West Indies for nearly 400 years. Settlement started in 1626 when James Hay, the Earl of Carlisle, was appointed Proprietor of Barbados, an event which led to a number of Scots making their way to the island. After the union of Scotland and England in 1707 and the lifting of restrictions on trade between these two countries, Scotland’s trade with the islands expanded and so did its stream of immigration throughout the West Indies. To a larger extent than elsewhere, the colonies of the West Indies attracted Scots with skills or money to invest. Scotsmen figured prominently in the Indies sugar cane, cotton, and tobacco-growing businesses, a phenomenon which promoted trade between the Indies and the mainland ports of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, and Savannah. In due course, families moved between these various locations, and links were established. The Scottish population of the West Indies also increased when many Loyalists took refuge there following the American Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the compilation of this volume, David Dobson combed archives and libraries in Scotland, England, and Denmark to yield the first listing devoted to Scottish inhabitants of the West Indies for the period between 1707 and 1857. While the full impact of Scottish settlement in the West Indies has yet to be fully researched, Mr. Dobson has clearly broken new ground where immigration source material is concerned. Arranged alphabetically by surname, many of the entries in this volume were culled from Scottish newspapers like the Aberdeen Journal, in which notices would appear seeking to employ managers and servants. 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