13th Feb 1837 | 83 Enslaved | £1244 16s 5d
Parliamentary Papers p. 315.
Claim by Benjamin Sym[m]onds, Kensal house, Harrow Road, Middlesex, owner-in-fee.
Counterclaims from Reid and Dixon; Manning & Anderdon; and Mary Philippa Whitton, of Stonewall, Chiddingstone Kent, widow, for a mortgage dated 05/08/1805.
Purcell v Macnamara. See Times 05/08/1806 p 3: Lord Chancellor was to 'devote the time after his leaving Court to the consideration of the proceedings, and intended before the sittings should be concluded, to deliver his judgement.'
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Colony
Virgin Islands
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Claim No.
11
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Estate
Norton's Valley Estate
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Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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Claimants in List E or Chancery cases (Owner-in-fee)
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Claimants in List E or Chancery cases (Mortgagee)
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Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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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:
'Virgin Islands 11 (Norton's Valley Estate)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/30059 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
