Banker (Banking)
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John Vere banker of Lombard Street counterclaimed on the Retreat estate in British Guiana as surviving partner of Vere & Ward mortgagees
The firm, founded in 1788, evolved into Sapte Muspratt, and subsequently merged with Fullers & Co. in 1859 to form Fuller, Banbury, Nix and Matheson, a predecessor of RBS.
T71/887 British Guiana no. 2349
http//heritagerchives.rbs.com/companies/list/sapte-muspratt-banbury-nix-and-co.html accessed 04/06/2013.
1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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.
