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Slave-owner in St Mary and St George, Jamaica. Alive in 1820 but deceased by 1823. A group of Pickersgills in Yorkshire, presumably members of his English family, were supposed by a London law firm to have filed a counterclaim for the compensation for the enslaved people on Richmond Castle estate.
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Absentee?
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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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1820 [EA] - → Lessee
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1823 [EA] - → Owner
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1817 [EA] - → Executor
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1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
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1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
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Testator → Executor
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Other relatives
Notes →
Possibly father and son given that Thomas Pickersgill's executrix was Sarah Haggart [also given as Hagart]....
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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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Thomas Pickersgill', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146646147 [accessed 26th November 2024].
