18th Jan 1836 | 27 Enslaved | £1275 8s 4d
Parliamentary Papers p. 132.
T71/887: awarded to the co-partners of the firm of Wm. & James Eccles & Co.
T.M. Devine, 'An eighteenth-century business élite: Glasgow-West India merchants, c. 1750-1815', Scottish Historical Review, 57 (1) (April, 1978), pp. 40-67: shows James, Robert and Thomas as the sons of William Eccles, a merchant of Ireland, and as shareholders in Robert Eccles & Co.
T71/433 p. 2364: 29 enslaved persons were registered by Alex Glen in 1832.
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2362
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Eccles, Wm
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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:
'British Guiana 2362', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/7543 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
