Newton Stewart - 1832 - ????
Samuel Douglas left a reported £17,000 to build and endow the Free School at Newton Stewart. It is now the Douglas Ewart High School, althrough it no longer occupies the original building.
Under his will proved in 1799 Samuel Douglas left £17,000 to build a school at Newton Stewart, which was built 1832-34 and closed in 1922.The building is extant.
1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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.
