{"id":905,"date":"2012-09-26T15:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=905"},"modified":"2012-09-26T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:06:59","slug":"letter-from-barbados-just-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/09\/26\/letter-from-barbados-just-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Barbados–just in!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>From an antiquarian dealer in Massachusetts, we have just acquired a letter dated August 23, 1802 from Barbados by former Hartford resident “Mrs. Bunce” (a prominent Hartford family) to her daughter, \u201cMy Dear Anne.\u201d\u00a0 The writer laments the loss of a female friend who left two \u201cfine, fine Boys,\u201d and tells of her \u201cdistress\u201d concerning \u201cthe misfortune of William being Press\u2019d on board of a Man of War and we have not heard a syllable about him since that time which is about 18 months.\u201d She hopes for happy days \u201cif my affairs were settled with you & My Dear Aunt Olcott as well as all my Hartford friends.\u201d She says this letter goes by Jack, about whom she complains greatly because of his not visiting, although \u201cI must excuse such visits knowing the circumstances on board of a Vessel.\u201d Her P. S. closes by saying \u201call the rest of the Blacks begs to be remembered.\u201d This would be a superb subject for a history paper–who were the Bunce’s of Hartford? Did they have a plantation in Barbados? Are the sons, William and Jack, sailors of note? It is likely that there are family papers at the Hartford History Center<\/a>, or the Connecticut Historical Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an antiquarian dealer in Massachusetts, we have just acquired a letter dated August 23, 1802 from Barbados by former Hartford resident “Mrs. Bunce” (a prominent Hartford family) to her daughter, \u201cMy Dear Anne.\u201d\u00a0 The writer laments the loss of a female friend who left two \u201cfine, fine Boys,\u201d and tells of her \u201cdistress\u201d concerning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,22,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}