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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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Absentee?
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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Business partners
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Earnside, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Central Scotland, Scotland
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1785 - 1854
Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.
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 31st December 2024].
