1723 - 1786
Owner of Old Hope in Westmoreland and Seven Rivers and Anchovy Bottom estates in St James, Jamaica.
Will of Martin Williams [late residing at Westmoreland Jamaica but now] of London proved 03/05/1786. He left all his estate in trust for his wife and children.
In 1759, Martin Williams offered Thomas Thistlewood a position at Moreland estate, owned by his brother George.
PROB 11/1141/25.
Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (Chapel Hill, 2004) p. 47.
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Absentee?
Transatlantic
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Spouse
Elizabeth Barrett Waite
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Children
Martin;
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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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1774 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Owner
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1795 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
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1790 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
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1803 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
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1774 [EA] - 1786 [EY] → Owner
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Father → Son
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Father → Daughter
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Husband → Wife
Notes →
Elizabeth Barrett Williams later formed a relationship with Samuel...
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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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Martin Williams senior', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644547 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
