9th May 1836 | 131 Enslaved | £2969 4s 7d
Parliamentary Papers p. 195.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 138: shows Joseph [sic] Heath as owner of the Quintynes and Redland estates, and as director of West India Bank in 1839.
T71/558 p. 84: enslaved persons were registered on the Quintynes estate by Josiah Heath in 1834.
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Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
4179
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Estate
Quintynes
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Collected by
Deane, Rich atty
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Awardee
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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:
'Barbados 4179 (Quintynes)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/6536 [accessed 26th April 2024].
