30th Nov 1835 | 157 Enslaved | £8552 4s 11d
Parliamentary Papers p. 122.
T71/431 p. 1048: 161 enslaved persons were registered on T([?]russchen de Vrienden estate in 1832 by George Rainy, for eight co-partners in Sandbach Tinne, McInroy Parker and McInroy Sandbach.
Walter Rodney (ed.), Guyanese Sugar Plantations in the late Nineteenth Century: a contemporary description from the Argosy (Georgetown, Guyana, Release Publishers, 1979) p. 32: Tuschen de Vrienden estate is described in 1883 as 'the pet property of the Hon. William Russell and his partner Mr John McConnell; and is known in the circles of their familiars as Mr Russell's grouse moor'.
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Tuschen de Vrienden
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Sandbach, H of PTS
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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:
'British Guiana 712 (Tuschen de Vrienden)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/8128 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
