5th Oct 1835 | 131 Enslaved | £2781 14s 10d
Parliamentary Papers p. 102.
T71/881: claim from John Whyte Melville by D. S. Laidlaw, his attorney.
Wm. Greig registered 135 enslaved persons in 1832, as lessee of the Melville Hall estate.
J. R. Ward, 'The Profitability of Sugar Planting in the British West Indies, 1650-1834', Economic History Review, 31 (2) (May, 1978), pp. 197-213, p. 213: shows the Melville Hall estate making £2678 per annum or 10.7% from 1802-7 (sourced to Scottish R. O. Balfour-Melville Papers GD 126).
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Colony
Dominica
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Claim No.
151
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Estate
Melville Hall
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Collected by
Coulthurst, Wm of Sir CTrotter (Coutts?)
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Uncontested
Yes
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Awardee
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1810 - ????
Enslaved young woman in St Peter, Barbados. Manumitted on the eve of Emancipation. Married a butcher in Speightstown.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Dominica 151 (Melville Hall)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/10261 [accessed 4th July 2024].
