14th Mar 1836 | 240 Enslaved | £4332 18s 4d
Parliamentary Papers p. 302.
Margaret Eleanor Swaby & Caroline Atkinson Swaby versus James Swaby & others.
T71/870: claim by James Swaby (an absentee), as trustee of Joseph James Swaby senior.
T71/177 p. 403: enslaved persons registered by John Griffith, as attorney to James Swaby (the acting trustee of J. J. Swaby).
Gad Heuman p. 13: reference to James Swaby as a free coloured, educated in England.
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Colony
Jamaica
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Parish
St Elizabeth
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Claim No.
104
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Estate
Montpelier Pen
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Awardee
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Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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Awardee
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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:
'Jamaica St Elizabeth 104 (Montpelier Pen)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/14416 [accessed 19th April 2024].
