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James MacVicar Affleck 'of Edinghame', a surgeon in Jamaica, was granted a variant to the coat of arms of the MacVicar family in December 1777. 'Dr James McVicar Affleck' had been an owner of a jobbing gang of 143 enslaved people. Either he or his son of the same name was an assignee of Williamsfield from William Innes between 1801 and 1807, and the attorney of Winchester estate in 1796-7.
http://www.clanmacvicar.com/heraldry/affleck.shtml [accessed 07/06/2019]; Nicholas Radburn and Justin Roberts, 'Gold versus Life: Jobbing Gangs and British Caribbean Slavery', The William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 76, No. 2 (April 2019), pp. 223-256. James Macviccar [sic] Affleck was buried at St Mary's Southampton 11/11/1802, Ancestry.com, James Macviccar Affleck in the England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 [database online].
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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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1807 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Previous owner
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1801 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Assignee
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1796 [EA] - 1797 [LA] → Attorney
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First Cousins
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Father → Son
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???? - 1848
Successful planter in British Guiana and Grenada; part of a close-knit mixed-race family with numerous business interests.
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:
'James MacVicar Affleck I', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146662457 [accessed 7th October 2024].
