General overseas merchant
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Partnership between Thomas Brown, Charles Rogers, Robert Brown and Benjamin Brown of Cheapside, merchants and drapers expired by effluxion of time 31/12/1812, since carried on by Robert Brown and Benjamin Brown for their own account, under firm R&B Brown.
Retirement 31/12/1837 of Benjamin Clarkson from Robert & Benjamin Brown and Company of Cheapside, merchants and warehousemen, leaving R, B & Charles Brown.
Partnership carried on by the undersigned with Robert Brown now deceased as Merchants at No. 157 Cheapside dissolved 24/6/1847 by mutual consent. Undersigned = Benj. Brown, Chas Brown, and then (possibly separately as executors of Robert Brown) Edw. Brown, Henry J Brown, Saml. Harper .
London Gazette 17778 1/1/1822 p. 4
London Gazette 19575 2/1/1838 p. 8
London Gazette 20747 25/6/1847 p. 2330.
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.
