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Identified as Sarah Beresford, Great Britain, owner-in-fee, Sheldon [Derbyshire?]'
T71/864 Port Royal claim no. 149, where a note says 'This should be St David No. 149'; in 1832 Simon Taylor registered enslaved people in St David for 'Sarah Beresford (formerly Sarah Simpson)', T71/144 p. 301. Mrs Sarah Simpson appears in earlier St David registers, e.g. 1829.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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£324 14s 6d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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England
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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:
'Sarah Beresford', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/12761 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
