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London merchant, apparently specialising in the Irish trade. He helped his brother Walter Coningham (q.v.) and William Alexander (q.v.) to finance the purchase of the Colonarie Vale estate on St Vincent in 1802 when he agreed to accept their bills of exchange in favour of the mortgagees of the estate (Lang, Turing, Snell and Reay). His will proved 15/02/1826 made no reference to slave-property: he left personalty of £56,000 among his family.
PROB 11/1708/276.
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Upper Gower Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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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:
'William Coningham of Gower Street', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146666195 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
