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Samuel Douglas

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 9th Jan 1799

Biography

Owner of Windsor Castle estate in St Mary, Jamaica.

  1. "Academy, Newton Douglas. On the 14th of June [1803], the foundation of an academy was laid at Newton Douglas, by Sir William Douglas of Douglas Castle, Bart. and the other executors of the deceased Samuel Douglas, Esq. of Windsor Castle, St. Mary, Jamaica, as ordered by his will: to the establishment and maintenance of which charitable insititution, he has left the greatest part of his estate, both real and personal." The legacy was reportedly £17,000.

  2. The son of Nathaniel Douglas and Margaret Heron. A merchant in Savannah, Georgia, he died in Charleston, North Carolina, 09/01/1799.


Sources

Jamaica Almanacs (1811, 1812).

  1. Monthly Register and Encyclopedian Magazine, Vol. 3 (1803) p. 155. New Statistical Account of Scotland Vol. 4 pp. 190-191, 331.

  2. http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/samuel_douglas5.html#.VubFSCllBTE [accessed 14/03/2016].

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic?

Associated Estates (2)

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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
- 1799 [EY] → Owner
Windsor Castle [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1799 [SY] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner
Windsor Castle [ Jamaica | St Mary ]

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Benefactor
Samuel Douglas Free School / Douglas Ewart High School...... 
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Under his will proved in 1799 Samuel Douglas left £17,000 to build a school at Newton Stewart, which was built 1832-34 and closed in 1922.The building is extant. ...

Physical (1)

School
Samuel Douglas Free School [Built] 
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Samuel Douglas left a reported £17,000 to build and endow the Free School at Newton Stewart. The school is now the Douglas Ewart High School, althrough the original building is an antique shop and...
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