Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Map of Sierra Leone
- Editor's Introduction
- Anna Maria Falconbridge Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the years 1791–1792–1793
- Dedication
- Preface
- Letter I
- Letter II
- Letter III
- Letter III [sic]
- Letter IV
- Letter V
- Letter VI
- Letter VII
- Letter VIII
- Letter IX
- Editor's Comment
- Letter X
- Journal
- Letter XI
- Editor's Comment
- Letter XII
- Editor's Comment
- Letter XIII
- Letter XIV
- Editor's Comment
- Letter to Henry Thornton
- Appendix
- Editor's Comment
- The Journal of Isaac DuBois
- Alexander Falconbridge An Account of the Slave Trade
- Index
Editor's Comment
from Anna Maria Falconbridge Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the years 1791–1792–1793
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Map of Sierra Leone
- Editor's Introduction
- Anna Maria Falconbridge Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the years 1791–1792–1793
- Dedication
- Preface
- Letter I
- Letter II
- Letter III
- Letter III [sic]
- Letter IV
- Letter V
- Letter VI
- Letter VII
- Letter VIII
- Letter IX
- Editor's Comment
- Letter X
- Journal
- Letter XI
- Editor's Comment
- Letter XII
- Editor's Comment
- Letter XIII
- Letter XIV
- Editor's Comment
- Letter to Henry Thornton
- Appendix
- Editor's Comment
- The Journal of Isaac DuBois
- Alexander Falconbridge An Account of the Slave Trade
- Index
Summary
She now subscribed herself Anna Maria DuBois, having married Isaac DuBois (see footnote 67). The marriage licence, signed by John Clarkson on 27 December 1792, just before he left for England, survives in the Clarkson papers (BL, Add. MS 41262A, fol. 224). DuBois seems to have pronounced his name in an anglicised way: a letter from two Nova Scotian settlers refers to him as “Mr Duboz” (ibid., Anderson and Perkins, 26 October 1793).
When Clarkson left he asked DuBois to send him a regular journal of daily events (printed here on pp. 170–189) to keep him informed of what was going on in the Colony. It supplies us with more details of the marriage. On the 3rd of January he made a wedding ring, and on the 6th, after a brief lovers’ tiff, she agreed to marry him the following day. On the 7th he wrote,
At 9 o clock this morning the Reverend Mr Horne performed the Marriage Ceremony and now I am once more, I trust, happily joined in the bands of wedlock, we intended our marriage should be kept a secret till the 21st of this month and Mr Horne had promised to do so, but the poor parson was not born to keep secrets, he carried it piping hot to the ears of every one he met, but desired every one he told it to, not to mention it to any one – however in less than two hours it was known over the whole Colony – it made very little difference to me whether it was known today or a fortnight hence – I am happy and the Parson is pleased at telling the news.
The celebration was probably delayed to await the arrival of Captain Morley, captain of the slave ship Nassau from Bristol, on its way up the river to Bance Island.
“He seems to be a good honest fellow”, wrote DuBois of Morley, “and I am rather gratified by his being highly pleased at his sister [sic] marriage”. He uses the word “sister” in the then current sense of sister-in-law. The parish registers of All Saints, Bristol, in the Bristol Record Office, show that she had two older sisters, Anne and Christian Jane, one of whom could have been the captain's wife.
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- Anna Maria FalconbridgeNarrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the Years 1791-1792-1793, pp. 122 - 123Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2000