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Levy Hyman

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Biography

Resident slave-owner and merchant in Kingston, reported to have presented himself as an elector in Kingston in 1820 at a time when Jews laboured under civil and political exclusion.


Sources

Holly Snyder, 'Rules, Rights and Redemption: The Negotiation of Jewish Status in British Atlantic Port Towns, 1740-1831' Jewish History Vol. 20, No. 2, Port Jews of the Atlantic (2006), pp. 147-170.

Associated Claims (3)

Jamaica Kingston 2284
£696 14s 4d
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Jamaica St Andrew 459 (Golden Hill)
£1,241 0s 5d
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Jamaica St Andrew 558
£154 19s 11d
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Associated Estates (2)

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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1809 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Golden Hill [ Jamaica | St Andrew ]

Note "in right of wife" as well in 1820.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
urban (Kingston) [ Jamaica | Kingston ]