1777 - 1853
William Fraser Tytler was awarded compensation for three enslaved people on Airy Castle in Jamaica 'having married the only child of George Grant deceased.' Son of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, the Scottish historian and lawyer.
William Fraser Tytler married Margaret Cussens Grant at Edinburgh 07/03/1801.
In 1823, John Alves and Charles Scott as attorneys for William Frazer [sic] Tytler and his wife Margaret Cussens [sic] conveyed 51 'Negro slaves and their future issue' to Priscilla Franks (q.v.) for £5,415.
Succeeded his father Alexander as Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh (1800-1821).
Ancestry.com, Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 [database online].
London Metropolitan Archives Acc/0775/924 Conveyance 11/08/1853.
Roger L. Emerson, Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightnenment: Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews, pp. 258, 259; http://archive.stjohns-edinburgh.org.uk/TytlerWilliam.html [accessed 12/11/2017].
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Absentee?
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Spouse
Margaret Cussans or Cussens Grant
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£35 5s 6d
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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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1823 [SY] - 1823 [EY] → Seller
William Fraser Tytler and his wife Margaret Cussans sold 51 enslaved people to Priscilla Franks, probably from Airy Castle. |
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Local Government
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Sheriff
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Son-in-law → Father-in-law
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Balnain, Highlands & Islands, Scotland
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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:
'William Fraser Tytler', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/16655 [accessed 1st February 2025].
