1783 - ????
Apparently resident attorney and slave-owner in Jamaica, albeit marrying Edith Pearce in Monmouth in 1818. The James Pearce King who was Mayor of Monmouth in 1844-1845 was presumably their son.
Ancestry.com, England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 [database online].
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Absentee?
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Spouse
Edith Pearce
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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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1820 [EA] - → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - → Agent
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1820 [EA] - → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
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Brothers
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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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'James Bryan King', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146640539 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
