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Auction: 17020 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 855

Autographs
Bills of Exchange
1796 (25 July) Bill for £1059.0.0 written in Martinique payable to Lieut Colonel Fredk Maitland for "Extraordinary Expenses of His Majestys Forces in the Windward & Leeward Charibbee Islands" and signed by Valentine Jones, Commissary General; endorsed on the reverse, "Pay John Will Adam Esq order" and signed Frederick Maitland and J.W. Adam. Light soiling does not detract from this interesting item from the British West Indies. Photo

General Frederick Maitland (1763 – 1848) was a British Army officer who fought during the American War of Independence, the Peninsular War and later served as Lieutenant Governor of Dominica.



Valentine Jones was an official and merchant in the West Indies. He lived in Barbados in the 1780's and took up the position of Deputy Commissary General for the Army in 1788. By the 1790's he was in charge of the army accounts in the West Indies, he then served as the Public Secretary of Barbados, before becomming Commissary General for the army in the Leeward and Windward Islands in 1795. Despite the generous salary of £1800 per annum, his dealings from the mid 1790's involved bribery and corruption, for which he was later found out and brought to trial. His dealings obviously netted him enough to live in some style and he purchased Bailbrook House in Bath, taking residence there in 1802

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