No Dates
Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Orange Hill in Clarendon. However, while the interest on the money flowed to Mary Williams Fearon, the principal appears in fact to have been intercepted by the London merchant firm of W., R. & S., Mitchell as mortgagees.
T71/859 Clarendon no. 40 and 222; Power of attorney dated 23/2/1836 to Rowland and Samuel Mitchell from claimant M.W.Fearon as tenant for life, and Wm Wheeler Fearon as tenant in remainder. T71/1606 letter from Mitchells setting out letters from William Wheeler Fearon from Clarendon, 'the interest of the amount to be paid my Mother during her life and the Principal to be carried to my Mortgage debt on Savoy and Orange Hill.'
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£106 6s 9d
Awardee
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£857 16s 7d
Awardee (Tenant-for-life)
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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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1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
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Mother → Son
Notes →
William Wheeler Fearon described M.W. Fearon as his mother in his claim to the compensation commission. Several genealogical sources show Mary Wliiam Fearon's two children as Rowland Fearon and...
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Wife → Husband
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Mother → Son
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Mother-in-law → Daughter-in-law
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1788 - 1876
Irish merchant, slave-owner and philanthropist.
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 Williams Fearon', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/16817 [accessed 25th November 2024].
