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Will of James Anderson of New City Chambers [but shortly intending to embark for the West Indies], proved 07/01/1823. In that will (made 31/03/1821), among James Anderson's assets was an amount of £1921 purchased from his brother Alexander Purcell Anderson, part of a £4000 mortgage over Brewer's Bay estate and the enslaved people on it on Tortola due from their deceased brother Andrew Anderson, which James Anderson left to Andrew Anderson's three children, James, Caroline Ellen and Anna Elizabeth Anderson.
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Absentee?
Transatlantic?
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Children
Robert (with Elizabeth Preston)
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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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- 1823 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
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- 1823 [EY] → Executor
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1820 [SY] - 1823 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
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Father → Natural Son
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Uncle → Niece
Notes →
James Anderson also left to his nieces (and nephew James) a share of the mortgage over Brewers Bay due from their late...
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Uncle → Niece
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James Anderson also left to his nieces (and nephew James) a share of the mortgage over Brewers Bay due from their late...
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Brothers
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Son → Father
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Inferred relationship...
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Brothers
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New City Chambers, City of London, Middlesex, London, England
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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:
'James Anderson of New City Chambers', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644105/ [accessed 18th April 2024].
