Associated People (10) |
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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:
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1762 [EA] - 1763 [LA] → Joint owner
This is a tentative association only. The estate was shown against 'Goodwin Goodin & Hardyman'. Mary Hardyman and James Hardyman were the plaintiffs in a Privy Council case against 'Grace' [probably George] Goodin in 1770. |
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1774 [EA] - → Owner
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1778 [EA] - 1796 [LA] → Previous owner
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1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Joint owner
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1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Previous owner
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1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Previous owner
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1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Previous owner
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1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Receiver
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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£1,383 2S 8D
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Estate Information (62) |
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1758
[Name] Friendship Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses No Ownersip details. Account filed by William Barnes.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 73
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1759
[Name] Friendship Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses No ownership details. Account filed by William Barnes.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 113
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1762
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Goodwin (sp) Goodin ? and Hardyman. Account filed by William Gibton.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 45
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1763
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Goodwin (sp) Goodin ? and Hardyman.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4
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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Crop] Sugar [Stock] 105 Listed as belonging to Benjamin Heath with 2 men bearing arms and 0 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 86 hogsheads of sugar.
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
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1778
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Fowle.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 134
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1779
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Fowle.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 135
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1780
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Fowle.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 136
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1781
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Fowle.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 132
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1782
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Fowle.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 131
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1783
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Fowle.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 130
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1784
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Fowle.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 129
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1785
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Fowle.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 128
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1787
[Name] Friendship Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq deceased; account filed by Andrew Turnbull, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 69
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1787
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq deceased; account filed by Andrew Turnbull as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 190
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1788
[Name] Friendship Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Benjamin Heath Esquire deceased. Account filed by Joshua Killer Lewis as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 232
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1789
[Name] Friendship Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esquire deceased. Account filed by Joshua Killer Lewis as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 248
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1790
[Name] Friendship Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esquire deceased. Account filed by Joshua Killer Lewis as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 364
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1791
[Name] Friendship sugar Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Under the direction of William Fowle and Michael Barnes Esquires as trustees and executors to the estate. Account filed by Joshua Killer Lewis as overseer 01/01/1791 to 05/07/1791 and Arthur Forbes as overseer 05/07/1791 to 31/12/1791.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 272-273 [f.131]
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1792
[Name] Freindship
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esquire deceased and under the direction of William Fowle and Michael Barnes trustees and executors. Account filed by Arthur Forbes as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 146-147
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1793
[Name] Freindship Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esquire deceased and under the direction of William Fowle and Michael Barnes trustees and executors. Account filed by Arthur Forbes as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 370-371 [f.186]
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1794
[Name] Friendship Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum By William Fowle executor of B Heath and trustee to the estate. Account filed by said William Fowle.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 113
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1794
[Name] Friendship Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq deceased under the care and direction of Richard Heath Esq appointed receiver by the Chancellor. Account filed by said Richard Heath for the year ending 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 132
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1796
[Name] Friendship Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum. Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Heath Esq, dec. Account given by Richard Heath Esq, appointed Receiver by Chancery.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1799
[Name] Friendship
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a cattle mill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 66 Registered to Findlater & Ruddach.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 62 Registered to Findlater and Ruddach.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 156 Registered to representatives of Alexander J. Findlater.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 17(Tot) 5(F) 12(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as receiver of the estate of Alexander James Findlater deceased, who claimed in right of his wife Susannah Jane Findlater deceased.
T71/202 514-515
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot) 7(F) 14(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as receiver of the joint estate of Alexander James Findlater and John Ruddock deceased.
T71/202 516-517
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot) 15(F) 19(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as receiver of the estate of Alexander James Findlater deceased.
T71/202 512-513
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 161 Registered to the heirs of Alexander J. Findlater.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot) 15(F) 26(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as receiver of the estate of John Ruddock deceased.
T71/202 510-511
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 178 Registered to the heirs of Alexander J. Findlater.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of the Estate of Alexander James Findlater decd who claimed in right of his wife, Susanna Jean Findlater.
T71/206 118
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver for the Estate of Alexander James Findlater and John Ruddock decd.
T71/206 114
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver for the Estate of Alexander James Findlater decd.
T71/206 113
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 181 Registered to the heirs of Alexander J. Findlater.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver for the Estate of John Ruddock decd.
T71/206 115
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 182 Registered to the heirs of Alexander J. Findlater.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of the Estate of Alexander James Findlater decd, who claimed in right of his wife, Susanna Jane Findlater decd.
T71/210 193-194
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of the joint Estate of Alexander James Findlater and John Ruddock, decd.
T71/210 189
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of the Estate of Alexander James Findlater decd.
T71/210 191-192
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 165 Registered to Alexander J. Findlater deceased.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 35(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of the Estate of John Ruddock, decd.
T71/210 195
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 168 Registered to the heirs of A. J. Findlater.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of Estate of Alexander James Findlater, who claimed in right of his wife, Susanna Jane Findlater decd.
T71/214 55
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of the joint Estates of Alexander James Findlater and John Ruddock decd.
T71/214 53
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of Estate of Alexander James Findlater decd.
T71/214 54
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 147 Registered to A. J. Findlater deceased.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of Estate of John Ruddock decd.
T71/214 57
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 62 Registered to A. J. Findlater deceased.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 55 Registered to A. J. Findlater deceased.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 13(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of the Estate of Alexander James Findlater decd, who claimed in right of his wife.
T71/217
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of the joint Estate of Alexander James Findlater and John Ruddock.
T71/217
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver for the Estate of Alexander James Findlater.
T71/217
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Receiver of the Estate of John Ruddock decd.
T71/220 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 28 Registered to William Heath.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 105 Registered to William Heath.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot)
[Name] Friendship Estate In the possession of William Heath as Trustee of Friendship Estate; increase owing to 6 births and acquisition of 83 enslaved people through Trust; decrease in total owing to 8 deaths.
T71/222 301
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)
[Name] Friendship [Stock] 14 Registered to William Heath.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1839
[Name] Friendship
[Size] 575 Registered to William Heath.
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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27th Nov 1782 - 8th Dec 1862
Wesleyan Minister, apparently sought to manumit his enslaved people for religious reasons
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2025
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Friendship [ Jamaica | St James ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/1708 [accessed 5th February 2025].
