1780 - ????
Resident slave-owner and mortgagee in Jamaica, son of George Scott (q.v.). He matriculated Christ Church Oxford in 1799 aged 18.
“Several honourable characters from among the proprietors from pure motives truly sought the spiritual welfare of the slaves. Foremost among these was H. Scott, esq, who, with his pious lady, resided on their property at Hopeton. They felt the claim the slaves had on them and applied to the Brethren to have a missionary stationed at Hopeton. In 1827 a mission was established at New Carmel in the immediate neighbourhood, the land bring made over by Mr Scott.”
http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/ScottAndDouglas.htm [accessed 18/03/2017].
J. H. Buchner, 'The Moravians in Jamaica' (1854) http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/moravia1.htm.
We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.
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Name in compensation records
Hutchinson M. Scott
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University
Oxford (Christ Church) [1799 ]
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£1,413 6s 4d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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£5,501 14s 7d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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£681 4s 4d
Awardee (Assignee)
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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] - → Assignee
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1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Trustee
Given as 'Hutchison Scott' but almost certainly Hutchinson Mure Scott |
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1823 [EA] - → Attorney
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1801 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1801 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
Given as 'Hutchison Scott', but since Hutchinson Mure Scott was mortgagee of other estates of Robert Keith Senior, this was almost certainly the same man. |
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1815 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Given as 'Hutchison Scott', but since Hutchinson Mure Scott was mortgagee of other estates of Robert Keith Senior, this was almost certainly the same man. |
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1823 [EA] - → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
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Son → Father
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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.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2022
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Hutchison (or Hutchinson) Mure Scott', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/13084 [accessed 29th November 2022].
