People & Investments (1) |
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Trustee
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1836 →
17 Ironmonger Lane, Cheapside [The Times]
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Company objective: ‘to render available the fertile sources opened for the advantageous investment of capital by the effects of the act for negro emancipation, and ... to assist materially in working out the philanthropic results anticipated frm the measure by the Legislature’. To develop settlements in British Guyana (Demerara and Berbice). Established with capital of £0.5m; share issue 10,000 x £50 each; deposit of £2 per share. |
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The Times, 26 Febraury 1836 |
1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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.
