West India merchant
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This appears to be a new and separate partnership to Mills & Swanston (q.v.). The partnership of Mills's & Swanston had been bankrupt in 1781. In his will proved in 1803 Sherland Swanston provided an elaborate account of his two partnerships with John Mills, one of which Mills's & Swanston was brought to bankruptcy he said by the actions of Matthew Towgood, an executor of John Mills; a second later partnership of Mills & Swanston he asserted had assets of £75,000, ample to cover its liabilities.
Sherland Hill Swanston and William Clark dissolve partnership, it having expired, at Fen Court Fenchurch Street 1/5/1825.
1890 partners in Swanston and Co., at No. 1 Laurence Poutney-Hill = John Alexander Swanston; Joseph Miller; John Turnbull Foreman; Henry Augustus Clarke (petitioning for winding up of Cardiff and Newcastle Steam Coal Company Limited)
London Gazette, Issue 13853, p. 49.
London Gazette 18155 16/7/1825 p. 1249
London Gazette 26075 1/8/1890 p. 4238.
1785 - 1854
Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.
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.
