West India merchant (Colonial - Caribbean)
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Memorial of Henry W. Bentinck [Count Bentinck] to Viscount Castlereagh [received 3 Nov. 1805]: sets out details of his career and the effect on his personal finances of the failure of Turnbull Forbes & Co.: asks for a positon and grant of land to enable him to support himself. [Land sought might have been in St Vincent or Martinique]
A commission of bankruptcy had been awarded against John Turnbull, John Forbes, Robert Allen Crawford and David Skene, trading as Turnbull Forbes 18/08/1802.
In 1807 the assignees of John Turnbull, John Forbes, Robert Allen Crawford and David Skeene [sic] of Broad St London, trading as Turnbull, Forbes and Co., convened a meeting of creditors to assent to or dissent from the assignees transferring their rights in La Bonne Intention in Demerara to Mr Daniel Willink in satisfaction of securities he then held on other estates and effects of the bankrupts.
University of Nottingham Manuscripts Online Catalogue http://mss-cat.nottingham.ac.uk/Dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Arch accessed 17/7/2009
London Gazette 15617 3 September 1803 p. 1165.
London Gazette 16063 8/9/1807 pp. 1183-4.
28th Mar 1802 - 6th May 1874
Daughter of a wealthy planter and wife of the rector of St Elizabeth, Jamaica. Bigamous convicted forger.
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.
