9th May 1836 | 126 Enslaved | £2429 12s 0d
Parliamentary Papers p. 150.
Award split. 30A: £1214 16s 0d to Thomas Corrie. 30B: £1214 16s 0d to Wm Campbell, Margaret Haldane Campbell, Thomas Corrie and James Robertson.
T71/891: claim by Thomas Corrie and Lydia Campbell, Edinborough [sic] owners-in-fee. William Campbell etc. were representatives of Lydia Campbell.
T71/1610: letter from Corrie & Co, 29 Mincing Lane seeking stamped copy of award as recipients were intending to sell the estate to a resident in Tobago.
Times 7/5/1842 p. 3: 'For sale, a small sugar estate in Tobago, which will be disposed of on moderate terms. For particulars apply to Messrs Corrie & Co., Mincing Lane.'
|
Colony
Tobago
|
|
Claim No.
30A & B
|
|
Estate
Lower Quarter Estate
|
|
Collected by
Corrie, Edgar
|
|
Other association
Corrie & Co. was agent on the claim and Edgar Corrie collected the compensation on behalf of the awardees.
|
|
Beneficiary
|
|
Awardee
|
|
Awardee
|
|
Awardee
|
|
Awardee
|
1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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:
'Tobago 30A & B (Lower Quarter Estate)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/28148 [accessed 23rd December 2024].
