1709 - 1788
Abraham Redwood (1709-1788), previous owner Cassada Garden, the grand-father of Abraham Redwood (d. 1838, q.v.) and probably of Langford Redwood (q.v.), and the founder of the Redwood Library in Newport Rhode Island.
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Absentee?
USA?
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Spouse
Martha Coggeshall
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Children
Six
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Occupation
Merchant, landowner and slave dealer
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Oxford DNB Entry
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£636 16s 10d
Previous owner (not making a claim)
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£2,856 18s 11d
Previous owner (not making a claim)
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Grandfather → Grandson
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Abraham Redwood of Newport', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146633420 [accessed 23rd November 2024].
