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Shown as owner of Boulogne and trustee of Lower Pearl estates in Grenada in 1817. One of the parties in the Chancery suit of Hurd v. Law. Probably the brother but possibly the nephew of James Law (q.v.), the former partner in the London West India merchant Lushington & Law: both men, the brother and the nephew of James Law, were named William Law. William Law the brother died in 1818; William Law the nephew was bankrupt in 1815 and still alive c. 1822, but out of England, when administration of the will of James Law was granted to James Evan Baillie on behalf of John Balfour the executor of Arthur Balfour (a bond creditor of James Law).
T71/267 pp. 9-13 and 68-72; London Gazette 19205 28/10/1834, p. 1915; 'Ellice v Goodson' in The Jurist, containing reports of cases determined in law and in equity during the year 1838 (1839) Vol. 2 pp. 127-129.
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Absentee?
British/Irish?
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£3,691 7s 0d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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£3,722 6s 5d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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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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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - → Trustee
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1820 [EA] - → Owner
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1817 [EA] - → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Trustee
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Other relatives
Notes →
Either brother-brother or uncle-nephew. James Law died 1807; his brother William died 12/09/1818; a second William Law was nephew of James Law and son of William Law (d. 1818). See 'Ellice v Goodson'...
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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 Law', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146633111 [accessed 25th November 2024].
