25th Apr 1836 | 153 Enslaved | £3054 13s 2d
Parliamentary Papers p. 189.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 87: Bezsin Reece's first estate purchase was of the Yorkshire estate in 1830; he went on to acquire other estates in the 1830s, including The Pine.
T71/555 p. 279: enslaved persons were registered by Bezsin Reece in 1834.
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Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
3174
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Estate
Yorkshire plantation
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Collected by
Reece, Bezsin
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Uncontested
Yes
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Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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1781 - 14th Jun 1863
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family. London and Bristol merchant and banker (Baillie, Ames & Baillie), major recipient of slave compensation across the Caribbean.
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:
'Barbados 3174 (Yorkshire plantation)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/4758 [accessed 3rd May 2024].
