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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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Business partners
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Business partners
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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 20th April 2024].
