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Trustees for Alexander Forbes held Aberdeen estate in St Elizabeth 1772-1782. Alexander Forbes 'of Scotland' had reportedly previously leased Aberdeen from Alexander McFarlane's Island estate, 'and [the estate] still belonged to an Alexander Forbes as a slave-and-sugar estate in 1772'. Neither man (if different) has yet been identified further, but either or both might be Alexander Forbes of Kingston (q.v.).
Gordon Collier, Ulrich Fleischmann A Pepper-pot of cultures: aspects fo creolization in the Caribbean p. 179.
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1772 [EA] - 1782 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
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1785 - 1854
Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Alexander Forbes', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146648447 [accessed 15th August 2022].
