25th Jan 1836 | 272 Enslaved | £14689 12s 3d
Parliamentary Papers p. 317.
T71/885: claim by William Forsyth, as owner. Counterclaim from the Winter family, as mortgagees. Counterclaim by Smith Payne & Smith, for 2 mortgages of £8050 and £14868 and upwards. The second counterclaim was admitted. William Forsyth had mortgaged the plantation to Nathaniel Winter and John Innes in 1825; assigned to Freshfield and Beadnell as trustees for Smith Payne & Smith in 1834.
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Colony
British Guiana
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Claim No.
167
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Estate
Plantation Friends
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Contested
Yes
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Unsuccessful claimant (consensual) (Owner-in-fee)
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Awardee (Mortgagee)
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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 167 (Plantation Friends)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/8560 [accessed 23rd December 2024].
