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Captain of the 61st Regiment of Foot, wounded in 1813 and based in Jamaica in 1823.
Ray Foster, Notes on Wellington’s Peninsular Regiments: 61st Regiment of Foot (South Gloucesters)', http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/Britain/Infantry/WellingtonsRegiments/c_61stFoot.html [accessed 16/09/2016].
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Occupation
Soldier
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1820 [EA] - → Other
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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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Captain Edward Charlton', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146649909 [accessed 26th April 2024].
