5 Manuscript letter books

Item author: Richard Champion & other family members
Item date: 1766 - 1775
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 1,200
Item date acquired: 1982
Item institution: Bristol Record Office
Town/City: Bristol
County: Avon

Letters to and from members of this important Bristol Merchant family, engaged in the manufacture of porcelain. They correspond with family members in Charleston, South Carolina and there is matter of interest about Bristol politics; letters to Edmund Burke, and others about the economic problems in America to the Duke of Portland and Lord Rockingham