British Guiana 1621 (No. 38 Cumingsburg District George Town)

Parliamentary Papers p. 127.

T71/433 p. 2425: Dorothy Thomas registered 51 enslaved persons in 1832 (by mark).

J.C. Cheveley, Journal, vol. 2 p. 126: reference to Georgetown in 1821, at which time 'Quite the head of the coloured class was Mrs Dorothy Thomas, usually styled Miss Doll a dark mestizo (or mustee as we English will call it) with the deportment of an empress, and reputed to be wealthy. She lived alternately in a splendidly furnished handsome house in Georgetown, and on her cotton estate up the coast, called Kensington....'. She employed slaves as huckstresses.