Financial services - credit (Financial services - credit)
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Established as a loan company aimed at the poor. Subject to Parliamentary debate, 1824-1825. Strongly opposed by pawnbrokers. Connected with the Arigna Iron and Coal Mining Co. which was the subject of a Parlt. Enquiry. See biographical notes on John Bent MP for some details.
Hansard
???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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.
