6th Jan 1801 - ????
First wife of Frederick Palmer. Brought ownership of enslaved people on her marriage. Deceased by 1833 when Frederick Palmer, widower, remarried.
Susanna Fletcher Yates, daughter of Jane Irving, a free woman of colour, by Charles Coulon Yates born 19/08/1797 and baptised in St Andrew Jamaica in 28/02/1798. Susanna, daughter of Coulon and Sarah Yates, born 06/01/1801 and baptised in St Andrew 14/02/1801. Assumed to be the second Susanna as she married a white man with no comment in the parish registers.
Marriage of Susanna Yates and Frederick Palmer at Port Royal 29/06/1826.
Ancestry.com, Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1879 [database online].
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Maiden Name
Yates
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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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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
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Wife → Husband
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Natural Daughter → Father
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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:
'Susanna Palmer (née Yates)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146664693 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
