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Jane Martin

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1830

Biography

Resident then absentee slave-owner on Jamaica. Almost certainly Jane Martin widow of Clifton Gloucestershire whose will was proved 18/02/1830. In that will, made in 1829, Jane Martin described herself as formerly of the island of Jamaica, and left 'all the negro and other slaves on the said island of Jamaica and elsewhere of or to which [sic] I am or shall at the time of my decease be any wise possessed of or entitled' and the proceeds of the sale of 'slaves' for which she had previously appointed an attorney, to her friend Sarah Fennell Scott (q.v.) of Clifton.


Sources

  1. PROB 11/1767/56.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic

Associated Estates (1)

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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
urban (Kingston) [ Jamaica | Kingston ]

Relationships (1)

Jane Martin
Testator → Legatee
Sarah Fennell Scott
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Addresses (1)

Clifton, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England
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