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Thomas Tyson

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Biography

Indebted slave-owner on St Kitts, the compensation for the enslaved people on whose estates was paid to Reid, Irving of London. Nephew and heir of James Tyson from whom he inherited the Conarees estate and the enslaved people attached to it.

  1. Thomas Tyson appears in an unflattering light in John Johnson's Reports Relating to Mr. Gordon's Estates in the West Indies, 1824, as a long-term lessee of the Gordon family.

Sources

http://beinecke.hamilton.edu/islandora/object/hamBeiMss:25229#N11 [accessed 30/11/2018].

Further Information

Absentee?

Associated Estates (3)

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
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Conarees [ St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre ]
1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Other
Unknown [ St Kitts ]

Thomas Tyson made the registration of enslaved people belonging to Elizabeth Thomas Tyson.

1822 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Attorney
Unknown [ St Kitts ]

Relationships (2)

Thomas Tyson
Nephew → Uncle
James Tyson
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Thomas Tyson was also a legatee under the will of his uncle James...
Thomas Tyson
Husband → Wife
Elizabeth Thomas Tyson
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