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Left Ireland in 1818 as a volunteer in the Columbian army and saw action in the island of Margueritta, just off modern-day Venuzuela. Moved to Jamaica and worked as a book-keeper and overseer on several estates before writing A Description of Jamaica Planters in 1838, a damning account of the Jamaican slavery, outlining the inhumane treatment of enslaved people and the corruption of white society.
Benjamin M'Mahon,Jamaica Plantership (1838).
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1819 [SY] - → Book-keeper
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Book-keeper
For 18 months in the early- to mid-1820s. |
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1823 [EA] - → Book-keeper
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1823 [EA] - → Book-keeper
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Book-keeper
Mid-1820s |
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1822 [SY] - → Book-keeper
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1830 [SY] - 1831 [EY] → Overseer
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Jamaica... 1838
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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:
'Benjamin McMahon', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146630095 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
