UCL

Unknown

Jamaica | St Dorothy

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
James Abel
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
George Abel
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
Robert Shaw

Notes

A group of enslaved people, presumably settled permanently on land, owned by George and James Abel and Co., merchants of London 1817-1820. Presumably the merchant company took over an estate following a credit judgement but the origins have not been identified.

Estate Information (2)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot) 17(F) 23(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Shaw as attorney to George and James Abel and Co. London.

 
T71/13 114-115
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Shaw as Attorney to Messrs George and James Abel and Co, Merchants of London. No new number of enslaved people recorded but no increase or decrease either, so assumed to be the same as the previous registration.

 
T71/14 108