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Son of Donald Mackay (the builder of Drumbuie House, d. 1791). John Mackay Macdonald reportedly went to Jamaica to oversee his father's estate there (which has not been traced to date by LBS) and then moved to Berbice, taking ownership of the Bloomfield estate there. He returned to Britain, then bought the estate of Carrigeenaveagh near Cork in Ireland. To date no death-date or will has been found for him.
David Alston, Slaves & Highlanders, http://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/index.asp?pageid=223640 [accessed 01/04/2020] identified him as the Jno Mc-C Macdonald in the Berbice Slave Register for 1817 dated as 1818 as owner of Bloomfield. Stephanie Barczewski Country Houses and the British Empire 1700-1930 (2014) pp. 262-269 shows him as one of five slave-owners ('West Indian planters') purchasing estates in Ireland (it gives his Cork estate as Carricknaveagh).
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Absentee?
Transatlantic
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Spouse
(1) Catherine Maria (2) ellen Hillard Fuller
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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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1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
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Carrigeeneveagh, near Cork, Ireland
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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:
'John Mackay Macdonald', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146664807 [accessed 24th November 2024].
