2nd May 1836 | 81 Enslaved | £1622 16s 1d
Parliamentary Papers p. 286.
T71/853: claim by James Cockburn, as receiver in the cause of 'The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital vs Willis'. Brown Willis, as heir at law of John Willis, claimed to have the money paid into Pratt vs Willis (which it was).
|
Colony
Jamaica
|
|
Parish
St Dorothy
|
|
Claim No.
123
|
|
Estate
Thetford Hall Pen
|
|
Collected by
Mitchell, Rowland
|
|
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
|
|
Unsuccessful claimant (Receiver)
|
|
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
|
|
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
|
???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Jamaica St Dorothy 123 (Thetford Hall Pen)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/16666 [accessed 23rd December 2024].
