West India merchant - British Guiana (Colonial - Caribbean)
No notes
Inferred from the Waterloo estate PC case of 1830
John Bolton, surviving Partner of the late Firm of Bolton & Littledale, Merchants Mary Littledale, Widow & Administratrix of Anthony Littledale, deceased They, the said John Bolton & Mary Littledale together Representing the said Firm of Bolton & Littledale, Claimants, On the nett Proceeds of Plantation Waterloo, cum annexis, Sold at Execution on the 9th July 1825; Philip Burrowes, so for himself individually, As in his relation as natural Guardian of his minor Daughter, Mary Burrowes & P. C. Masse, as having in marriage Anna Elizabeth Burrowes, Claiments, on the Proceeds of said Plantation Waterloo, cum annexis.
Privy Council Papers online Case 1792_411 (1830)
NB there is more valuable detail on Bolton & Littledale in Alexey Krichtal, 'Liverpool and the Raw Cotton Trade: a Study of the Port and its Merchant Community, 1770-1815' (MA thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2013), http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10063/2952/thesis.pdf?sequence=1 [accessed 15/02/2015].
1785 - 1854
Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.
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.
