19th Oct 1835 | 322 Enslaved | £5745 0s 3d
Parliamentary Papers p. 70.
T71/873: claim from William Mitchell Kerr, of St James, as executor for John Baillie.
T71/1016: claim by William Mitchell Kerr, as executor to John Baillie.
Jamaica Almanac (1828): Roehampton estate registered to John Baillie, with 330 enslaved persons.
Jamaica Almanac (1833): Roehampton estate registered to John Baillie.
B.W. Higman Plantation Jamaica 1750-1850: capital and control in a colonial economy (Mona, Jamaica, University of West Indies Press, 2005) p. 159: shows that in 1850, Isaac Jackson paid £4200 to absentees Wm. Sterling and Graham Russell for a series of tracts, including Roehampton, Mafoota Bottom and Castle Pen.
Enslaved persons were registered by William Mitchell Kerr in 1832, as attorney to John Baillie.
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Colony
Jamaica
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Parish
St James
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Claim No.
40
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Estate
Roehampton Estate
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Collected by
Kerr, WM
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Uncontested
Yes
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Awardee (Executor or executrix)
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Other association
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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 James 40 (Roehampton Estate)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/16042 [accessed 21st November 2024].
