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Resident slave-owner in Jamaica. Monumental Inscriptions shows him dying of Spring Mount 10/03/1788 age 56, but the Accounts Produce show him dead by 1778.
Benjamin Heath of St James, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1778. Slave-ownership at probate: 274 of whom 152 were listed as male and 122 as female. 56 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £21,951.43 Jamaican currency of which £16,745.75 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £489.03 currency debts and £39.5 currency plate.
James Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875) p. 321.
Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.
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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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1778 [EA] - 1796 [LA] → Previous owner
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1774 [EA] - → Owner
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1778 [EA] - 1796 [LA] → Previous owner
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1774 [EA] - → Owner
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Father → Son
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1810 - ????
Enslaved young woman in St Peter, Barbados. Manumitted on the eve of Emancipation. Married a butcher in Speightstown.
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:
'Benjamin Heath', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146651081 [accessed 23rd November 2024].
