31st Oct 1836 | 287 Enslaved | £7328 15s 5d
Parliamentary Papers p. 322. T71/892: claim by Alex. Cruikshank, owner-in-fee by trustee. Counterclaim by Patrick Cruickshank as 'trustee - claims the whole of the compensation money'.
T71/500 p. 23: enslaved persons registered by Patrick Crichton for Alex. Cruikshank junior esq. in 1834.
Times 30/5/1833 p. 4 'Suicide of a West india merchant': Duncan Brown who recently arrived in Great Britain at 58 Upper-Charlotte st [lodging house] 'destroyed himself in a very extraordinary manner'. Patrick Cruikshank was a witness, of No 8 Cornwall Terrace, 'I am a West India merchant'. Brown had addressed a letter to Barclay, a merchant in Dublin. He 'spoke almost incessantly on the West India question', according to Peter Cosgrave, his surgeon. Peter Cosgrave was Duncan Brown's London agent.
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Colony
St Vincent
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Claim No.
453
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Estate
Langley Park
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Contested
Yes
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Unsuccessful claimant
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Awardee (Trustee)
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???? - 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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'St Vincent 453 (Langley Park)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/27150 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
