East India merchant (Colonial - East Indies)
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Calcutta 6/4/1846 retirement of Andrew Hay from partnership with Geo. Grant, Robertson Gladstone, Archd. Kelso, Jas Wyllie and Farquhar Matheson
Retirement of Farquhar Matheson from partnership in Calcutta and Rangoon under firm of Gladstone, Wyllie & Co., and in London under James Wyllie & Co. 30/4/1856; retirements of William Grant and David Blair Lindsay from both firms 30/4/1859, leaving Robertson Gladstone, Archd Kelso, J. Wyllie.
London Gazette 20608 26/5/1846 p. 1958
London Gazette 22270 3/6/1859 p. 2202
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.
