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Glasgow merchant and slave-owner, partner in Robert McKay & Co. (q.v.). His heirs appeared between 1798 and 1832 as the owners of the Palmetto River estate in St Thomas-in-the-East, which had earlier been owned by Robert McKay & Co. He died at 'Easter House' [Easterhouse, Glasgow] 22/09/1798 'of Earnside'.
Edinburgh Magazine NS Vol. X (1798) p. 319; T. M. Devine, 'An Eighteenth-Century Business élite: Glasgow-West India Merchants, c. 1750-1815' The Scottish Historical Review Vol. 57, No. 163, Part 1 (Apr., 1978), pp. 40-67.
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British/Irish
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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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1798 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
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Partner
Robert Mckay and Company
West India merchant |
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Earnside, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Central Scotland, Scotland
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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:
'John Spens Munro', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146658341 [accessed 10th December 2024].
