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Appears in a list of inhabitants of St John, Barbados, 1774 as owning 195 enslaved. (No estate name is given.)
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/5. Return of persons in Saint John 1774. Note that the original list is partly torn: not all the numbers are visible and much of the handwriting is illegible or smudged.
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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:
'George Foster [or Forster] Clarke', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643419 [accessed 23rd December 2024].
