30th Nov 1835 | 118 Enslaved | £2163 15s 9d
Parliamentary Papers p. 54.
T71/869: claim from John Thompson (an absentee), as owner in fee.
T71/1607: letter, dated 25/02/1837, from John Collinson, 20 High Street, Hull (Yorkshire), stating: 'he has some claim upon the 37 Negroes thereon'.
T71/163: enslaved persons registered in 1832 by Thomas Davies, as attorney to John Thompson.
Jamaica Almanac (1826 & 1833): Eden estate (with 192 enslaved persons) and Lancaster estate (with 122 enslaved persons) registered to John Thompson.
See also St George claim no. 42 (Eden estate), for John Thompson's executors as Chas. Horsfall etc..
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Colony
Jamaica
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Parish
St George
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Claim No.
214
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Estate
Lancaster Plantation
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Collected by
Horsfall, Chas of CH, Rev WMason & Eleanor Blewet, exors of JT decd.
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Uncontested
Yes
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Awardee
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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 George 214 (Lancaster Plantation)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/21272 [accessed 27th November 2024].
