1734 - 18th Dec 1807
Born 1733 or 1734. Father of William Rhodes James III (who predeceased him) and grandfather of William Rhodes James IV (both of whom q.v.). His inventory in 1808 showed assets of £16,286 2s 6d but his remaining enslaved people were mortgaged to the Wedderburns, and his Fontabelle estate with the enslaved people attached to it had been put up for for sale by the Wedderburns in 1805.
http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/JamesWills&Inv.htm#William [accessed 24/11/2016]; The Royal Gazette 6 April 1805 Supplement p 12 JAMAICA, IN CHANCERY WEDDERBURN vs. JAMES & al., reproduced at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/j/JamesRichard.htm [accessed 24/11/2016].
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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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1766 [EA] - 1766 [LA] → Not known
Mortgagor in 1766, presumably as owner |
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1787 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Joint owner
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1766 [EA] - 1766 [LA] → Not known
Mortgagor in 1766, presumably as owner |
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1795 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Owner
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Son → Father
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Nephew → Uncle
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Father → Son
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Grandfather → Grandson
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Brothers
Notes →
Tentative identification only of Thomas James the owner of Abingdon with the Thomas James known to be son of William Rhodes James I and brother of William Rhodes James II. ...
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9th Oct 1760 - 1801
Prominent Liverpool merchant and slave-trader
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:
'William Rhodes James II', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146650331/ [accessed 24th March 2023].
