Barbados 4041 (Forster Hall)

Parliamentary Papers p. 194.

T71/898: claim from Thomas Yard by John Wood, his attorney.

Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 68: the author states that Thomas Yard owned three estates - Forster Hall, Cottage and Groves. The consignees and managers of the estates were Barton, Irlam, Higginson and its Barbadian subsidiary Higginson, Deane & Stott. Ibid. p. 161: Thomas Yard also assigned sugar to Thomas Lee, of Liverpool, Ranken & Wilson, of Glasgow, and the Daniels. Ibid. pp. 127-8: the author provides an analysis of Thomas Yard's accounts for the three estates, showing increased expenditures. The analysis is sourced to Accounts in RB1/271-306.

T71/559 p. 118: John Wood registered 172 enslaved persons in 1834, as attorney to Thomas Yard.

See also Barbados claim nos. 3878 and 3879.