Associated People (2) |
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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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- 1786 [EY] → Owner
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1810 [EA] - 1810 [LA] → Previous owner
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The Retreat appears in a deed of 01/08/1810, where it as shown as having been owned by George Ross of Cromarty and left in trust under entail. The enslaved people on it appear to have been transferred or subsumed into Orange Hill by 1817. See Orange Hill for more detail on the deed of 1810. |
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Deed Book 1810, British Library, EAP688/1/1/21, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-21 pp. 310-325. |
???? - 1848
Widow of prominent mahogany merchant and landowner
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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'The Retreat [ St Vincent ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/23859 [accessed 5th February 2025].
