Insurance
Sponsors of Royal Insurance met initially in the offices of Josias Booker. Booker owned 1000 of initial 100,000 shares of £20 each. Initially oveseas fire markets, then life insurance. Josias Booker = Chairman 1849; his brother Septimus Booker was solicitor to the new company.
Slinn & Tanburn 'The Booker Story' p. 21
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Founding shareholder
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<10%
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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.
