Agriculture (Land - agriculture)
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Company objective: ‘to render available the fertile sources opened for the advantageous investment of capital by the effects of the act for negro emancipation, and ... to assist materially in working out the philanthropic results anticipated frm the measure by the Legislature’. To develop settlements in British Guyana (Demerara and Berbice).
Established with capital of £0.5m; share issue 10,000 x £50 each; deposit of £2 per share.
The Times, 26 Febraury 1836
1729 - 1809
Quaker merchant and banker, abolitionist who manumitted enslaved people in Jamaica
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.
