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Apprenticed to an attorney, Robert Spottiswoode, in London in 1782, when the London merchant Thomas Gowland appeared as his 'next friend' and guardian. Seemingly dead by 1807. LBS has concluded that there were two men of this same name. This man was the son of Jacob Johnson senior, and married Catherine Williams, spinster in Westmoreland, Jamaica, 16/08/1786.
The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Court of King's Bench: Plea Side: Affidavits of Due Execution of Articles of Clerkship, Series I; Class: KB 105; Piece: 2, through Ancestry.com UK, Articles of Clerkship, 1756-1874 [database on-line]; Familysearch.org, Westmoreland Parish Register, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1739-1825 p 112.
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Absentee?
Transatlantic?
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Spouse
Catherine Williams
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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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1807 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Previous owner
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Uncle → Nephew
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Husband → Wife
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Brothers
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Brother → Sister
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Son → Father
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Father → Daughter
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Father-in-law → Son-in-law
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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:
'William Ricketts Johnson the elder', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146652679 [accessed 26th December 2024].
