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Owner of an estate on Tortola and possibly the man identified as Wm or J.M. Donovan in Virgin Islands Claim no 254.
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Name in compensation records
Wm. Donovan
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£1,907 0s 11d
Other association
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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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1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
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1818 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1825 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Executor
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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:
'John Middleton Donovan', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/-335245946 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
