No Dates
Owner of Sally's Delight in St John and another unknown estate in St Catherine, Jamaica. Apparently Jewish.
Listed in Eli Faber, Jews, slaves and the slave trade (1998) p. 243 as Jewish but not otherwise identified.
We are grateful to Michael Turnbull for his assistance with compiling this entry.
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£44 11s 7d
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£354 13s 7d
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£29 3s 1d
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£800 1s 5.75d
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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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1820 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
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1815 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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:
'Esther Mendes', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/14565 [accessed 14th November 2024].
