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Will of Alexander McLachlan late of Trelawny Jamaica but now of Charlotte Street Rathbone Place proved 10/05/1783. In the will [which has not yet been fully analysed by LBS] he explained that he was lessee of Cheshire plantation under a lease running until 1787, but owner of the enslaved people working on it, either in his own right or by formerly his wife's property before the marriage. He also owned a pen called Reserve that appears to have supported the Cheshire estate. He left half the produce from Cheshire over the remaining lease term, the Reserve pen, and another pen named Rock Pleasant, also in Trelawny, to his wife for life. He left his nephew Capt. Lachlan McLachlan £2000 of the 73rd Foot to purchase a higher commission.
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Absentee?
Transatlantic
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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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- 1783 [EY] → Lessee (Estate)
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- 1783 [EY] → Owner
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Uncle → Nephew
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Brothers
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Deceased Husband → Widow
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Rathbone Place, Charlotte Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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1789 - 14th Mar 1860
Possibly the first 'ethnic minority' MP to be elected (in 1832) to the House of Commons.
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:
'Alexander McLachlan of Trelawney and Rathbone Place', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146654711 [accessed 25th November 2024].
