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Associated People (4)

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
1799 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Ashburner
1803 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Nathan Lucas
1813 [EA] - 1813 [LA] → Attorney
John Oliverson
1813 [EA] - 1813 [LA] → Previous owner
Thomas Ashburner

London Gazette showed that the Content estate was advertised in 1812 to be put up for auction in 1813, together with half of Lot No. 7, in behalf of Alexander Fullerton and John Oliverson as the attorneys of the executors and executrix of Thomas Ashburner plaintiffs in execution, suggesting that the buyer from Thomas Ashburner had not paid some of the purchase price.

Notes

Demerara - not yet traced in the compensation records.

"...maps held by the Dutch National Archives list the owner of The Content as J Kendall in 1798 and as Ashburner in 1799." Nathan Lucas owned The Content by 1803 when he visited the property, returning again in 1806-7. Transcripts of the detailed journal kept by Nathan Lucas in 1803 are held at the Library of the Linnaean Society and the Natural History Museum in London.

The London Gazette showed that the Content estate was advertised in 1812 to be put up for auction in 1813, together with half of Lot No. 7, in behalf of Alexander Fullerton and John Oliverson as the attorneys of the executors and executrix of Thomas Ashburner plaintiffs in execution, suggesting that the buyer from Thomas Ashburner had not paid some of the purchase price.

Sources

Email from Dr P. A. K. Covey-Crump, 15/11/2017.

London Gazette 16685 26/12/1812 p. 2604.

Estate Information (1)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot) 89(F) 109(M)  
[Name] Content  
 

Registered by David King atty of N. Lucas prop.

 
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