1803 - 1837
Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Eden estate in St Mary as receiver in Gladstone v Grant.
After the death of the owner of Eden, Alexander Grant, his daughter and heiress Mrs Macdowall Grant of Arndilly together with her husband and creditors of the estate brought a suit to force the trustees to go forward with the sale of the estate, the proceeds from which under Alexander Grant's will were to repay his creditors and to be redeployed in buying land in Scotland.
James Macdowall Grant, the son of David Macdowall-Grant and Eleanor Mary Grant, died in Jamaica in 1837.
T71/856 St Mary no. 276.
London Gazette, Issue 15084, 27/11/1798, p. 1145.
Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain - the Kingdom in Scotland (19th ed. 2001) Vol. 1 p. 884.
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Absentee?
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£29 3s 1d
Awardee
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£2,932 5s 3d
Awardee (Receiver)
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£83 7s 0d
Awardee
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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] - → Receiver
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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:
'James Macdowall Grant', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/17442 [accessed 25th November 2024].
