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Friend's Retreat

British Guiana | Berbice

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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
1801 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Richard Worswick
1801 [EA] - 1812 [LA] → Joint owner
John Walmsley
1812 [EA] - 1818 [LA] → Joint owner
Adam Thornborrow

Lancashire Archives DDO 4/21 Jul. 1812 Lease and Release: for £1213.10.2: Joseph Greaves, Charles Thomas Jones, and James Whittle of Liverpool, and Joseph Blair of Manchester, merchants, (assignees of George Danson and John Walmsley of Liverpool, merchants, bankrupts) to Adam Thornborrow of Berbice, merchant -- as DDO 4/17; DDO 4/22 26 Feb. 1817 Notice to Governor of Berbice that Adam Thornborrow has purchased a moiety of Friends' Retreat as in DDO 4/18.

Notes

Berbice - not yet traced in the compensation records

Estate Information (3)

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1801
[Name] Friend's Retreat  
 

Lancashire Archives DDO 4/181 Jan. 1802 Mortgage for £3000: John Walmsley, late of Martinique, now of Lancaster, merchant, to Alexander and Richard Worswick of Lancaster, bankers -- a third of plantation as DDO 4/17 [The Expectation], and Friends Retreat with 40 slaves in all.

1809
[Name] Friend's Retreat  
 

In 1809 Friend's Retreat, the property of George Danson and John Walmsley bankrupts of Liverpool, 'or one of them' was to be auctioned, together with the 'Negroes' attached to it.

 
London Gazette 18 March 1809Issue:16238Page:365
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot) 14(F) 17(M)  
[Name] Friend's Retreat'  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Friend's Retreat situate on the West Coast the property of John Lancaster. This return by Benjamin Lancaster q.q. Berbice 08/12/1817.

 
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