Janus: Americas miscellanea

RCS/RCMS 240 contains:
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11	Sketch of Montreal in Lower Canada
12	Paintings of the Niagara Falls
13	Indian chart
14	Memorandum on books in Jamaica
15	Grenada estate documents
16	Documents regarding Grenada
17	Commission of Major Vernon Guise
18	Articles of capitulation of Dominica and St Kitts
19	Royal grant of West Indian governorship
20	Antigua marriage settlement
21	Account of the Longman family
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Americas miscellanea

Title	Documents regarding Grenada
Reference	RCMS 240/16 (former reference: MSS 771)
Creator	Melville, Robert, 1723-1809, General and antiquary
Covering Dates	1767–1964
Extent and Medium	1 folder; paper; Manuscript

Content and context

Robert Melville (1723-1809) was born on 12 October 1723. He attended the grammar school at Leven and Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities. He became ensign in the 25th Foot in 1744, with which he served in Flanders. He was made captain in 1751, and major in 1756. Melville became Lieutenant-Governor of Guadeloupe in 1759, and Governor in 1760. He was governor of the ceded islands, 1763-1770. He died on 29 August 1809.

Letters and papers concerning Grenada written by Robert Melville and others and an edition of 'Royal Commonwealth Society Library notes' concerning Melville and this collection.

The provenance of the collection is unknown.

Further information

Donald H. Simpson, ed., 'The manuscript catalogue of the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (London, 1975), p. 142. Indexed

Index Terms

Grenada

North and Central America

Melville, Robert (1723-1809) General and antiquary

RCS/RCMS 240/16 contains:

Emancipation act. A copy of an act of the legislature of Grenada freeing a slave.
3 pages; Manuscript.

1767

Memorandum on colonial government. A memorandum by Robert Melville on the principles of colonial government endorsed 'delivered to me in Dominique, 2 Dec. 1767'.
5 pages; Manuscript.

1767

Letters from Robert Melvill. Contemporary copies of extracts from two letters regarding the general state of Grenada written in Bath, 20 October 1768, and London, 14 November 1768, and a short undated note. There are accompanying undated, typescript transcripts of the letters.
6 pages; Mixed scripts.

Royal Commonwealth Society library notes. 'Library notes', no. 86, including the article 'Grenada in the 1760s' (pp. 1-2), which transcribes RCMS 240/16/1 and provides background information about Robert Melville.
3 pages; Printed.

Feb. 1964