Jamaica St Ann 434 ([Cranbrook])

29th Feb 1836 | 120 Enslaved | £2524 1s 5d

Claim Details

Claim Notes

Parliamentary Papers p. 291.

John Forbes & another v Walter Hammond & others; Sarah Moffett v Walter Hammond & others; John Forbes v Walter Hammond & others; John Forbes v Andrew Moffett Mills & another; Andrew Moffett Mills v Martha Bayard; Andrew Moffett Mills v Adolphus Moffett Bayard; Andrew Moffett Mills v Denzill Ibbetson Thompson & others (7 in total).

See also St Ann claim no. 433.

Probably Cranbrook estate (listed in the Jamaica Almanac of 1833 to the 'heirs of John Moffatt'].

The case of Forbes v. Moffatt is described in Francis Vesey, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery 1789-1817 Vol. 16 pp. 384-394 available at https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5XEDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA385&lpg=PA385&dq=forbes+v.+moffatt&source=bl&ots=9MPhpgENYF&sig=hQG7H5XykF4eqbgI5EwSkxBnpus&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7hHKVJnkMcL1ULOMhLAC&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=forbes%20v.%20moffatt&f=false [accessed 29/01/2015] and centres on the mortgages and debts of the brothers Andrew Moffatt (1780), James Moffatt (1790), Aaron Moffatt (1795) and John Moffatt (1807).

See also separate entry for Dorothy Moffatt, daughter of Aaron Moffatt.


Further Information

Colony
Jamaica
Parish
St Ann
Claim No.
434
Estate
[Cranbrook]
Contested
Yes

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