11th Apr 1836 | 125 Enslaved | £2773 1s 9d
Parliamentary Papers p. 183.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 88: in 1838, Thomas William Bradshaw bought the Highland estate in St Thomas for £14,285. He sold it within a year to Nathaniel Forte for £15,714.
T71/561 p. 113: enslaved persons were registered by John C. Packer in 1834.
See also Barbados claim no. 374 for John Cutting Packer as resident in 1834.
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Barbados
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Claim No.
2115
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Estate
Highland
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Collected by
Deane, R atty
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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:
'Barbados 2115 (Highland)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/1537 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
