Philip John Miles

Commercial Legacy Details

Partnership Role

Elton, Ames and Company
Other partner

Gunpowder Manufacturing (Other manufacturing)

No notes

Firm Notes

Retiremnt of George Dyer from co-partnership making and selling gunpowder at Woolley and Littleton in Somerset, at Bristol and Liverpool under firm of Elton, Ames and Company with William Elton, Levi Ames and Philip John Miles, continued by the latter three

Firm Sources

London Gazette 17057 2/9/1815 p. 1795

Further Information

People of Interest

James Evan Baillie

1781 - 14^th Jun 1863

Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family. London and Bristol merchant and banker (Baillie, Ames & Baillie), major recipient of slave compensation across the Caribbean.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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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