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Resident slave-owner on St Vincent, Speaker of the House of Assembly, and buyer of Rose Hall, Clydeside and Palmyra with 145 enslaved people with John Cropper and Nathaniel Basnett Cropper in 1800 for £40,000, of which £23,000 was to go directly to Hamilton's creditors. Kenneth Morgan records the sale of 14 enslaved people by the devisees of David Miller in an indenture dated 01/03/1808.
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1800 [EA] - → Joint owner
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Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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:
'David Miller of St Vincent', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146666483 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
