West India merchant (Colonial - Caribbean)
No notes
Variously Rawlinson & Chorley and Rawlinson, Chorley and Greierson. Major importer of West Indian cotton into Liverpool in the 1780s. This is the firm with whom John Bolton (q.v.) began as an apprentice.
Alexey Krichtal, Liverpool and the raw cotton trade, M.A. Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington (2013) pp. 35-36.
1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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.
