1758 - 1826
Shown as 'merchant and planter' in Jamaica by Smith and Mitchell and the son of Andrew Buchanan (1725-1783), a Virginia merchant in Glasgow, dying at Sherborne in 1826. Online genealogical sources show children of this George Buchanan d. 1826 as being born on Come Lee [sic] estate c. 1800 and on Wilton estate in Jamaica in the 1810s.
John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, Old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry (1878) LXVVI Mount Vernon.
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Absentee?
Transatlantic
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Spouse
Married but no further details
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Children
George; Robertson; Andrew
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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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1809 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Not known
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1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Guardian
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1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Not known
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Father → Son
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Nephew → Uncle
Notes →
William Robertson's will identified George Buchanan of Comesee Jamaica as his nephew and as his benefactor when William Robertson was under distressed circumstances....
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Sherborne, Dorset, Wessex, England
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1805 - ????
Enslaved man brought to England as a domestic servant; his former owner was indicted for the mistreatment of Thompson in 1824.
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:
'George Buchanan senior', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146650723 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
