22nd Sep 1836 | 38 Enslaved | £2009 2s 6d
Parliamentary Papers p. 324.
Award split. 1635A: £204 4s 2d to Usborne. 1635B: £334 13s 10d to Coppinger. 1635C: £1398 14s 9d to Buchanan (all awarded on 22/09/1836). 1635D: £71 9s 9d to FitzGerald on 06/10/1836.
T71/894: Robert Buchanan identified as of Glasgow, trustee of creditors of John McCaul and John Gordon McCaul, late of Glasgow, merchants.
T71/518 p. 3319: enslaved persons registered by Richard Coppinger as attorney to Lea Usborne in 1834. Enslaved persons registered on Mt Annan by Richard Coppinger as attorney, executor and guardian to Louisa Coppinger.
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Colony
Trinidad
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Claim No.
1635A-D
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Estate
Mount Annan
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Contested
Yes
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Awardee
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Awardee (Guardian)
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Not a claimant (Mortgagee)
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Awardee
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Awardee (Trustee)
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Beneficiary
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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:
'Trinidad 1635A-D (Mount Annan)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/29299 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
