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Absentee slave-owner on St Vincent. The claimant for the Grove estate in St Vincent was shown as Henrietta Hill, and the 1831 registration for the estate was made in the name of Henrietta Gordon Hill by John Hill. The estate had been bequeathed by Robert Gordon of St Vincent (q.v.) to his grand-niece Harriet [sic] Gordon Hill, and Harriet Gordon Hill was shown as the claimant in St Vincent for the Spring estate. LBS has concluded the two were the same woman.
A monument in Clifton noted under the entry for William Hepburn jun. shows the death of H.G. Hill in 1859. Harriet or Henrietta Gordon Hill had a daughter, Henrietta J. Hill.
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Absentee?
British/Irish?
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Maiden Name
Hepburn
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Name in compensation records
Henrietta Hill
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Spouse
John Hill
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Children
Henrietta J. Hill
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£71 2s 0d
Awardee
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£2,207 4s 11d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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£2,003 14s 11d
Unsuccessful claimant (Guardian)
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Legatee → Testator
Notes →
Harriet Gordon Hill was great-niece and co-heir of Robert Gordon of St...
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Sister → Brother
Notes →
Inferred by...
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Daughter → Mother
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Mother → Daughter
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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:
'Harriet or Henrietta Gordon Hill (née Hepburn)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146642839 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
