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Born in Jamaica, daughter of Montague James (q.v.) and Elizabeth James, and widow of John Reid of Wakefield estate and Cheltenham (q.v.), dying at Liverpool Q1 1847. Owner of Hermitage Settlement in her own right.
Ancestry.com, [database online], where she appears as Mary Houghton Reid.
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Absentee?
Transatlantic?
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Maiden Name
James
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Spouse
John Reid
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£2,460 7s 7d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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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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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
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Widow → Deceased Husband
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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:
'Mary Haughton Reid (née James)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/12162/ [accessed 18th April 2024].
