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London banker and accused American Revolutionary conspirator. Stephen Sayre and Bartholomew Coote Purdon were party to an indenture of 24 and 25/03/1775 with John Williams of Wimpole Street and Charles Best of the Crescent, Minories under which Best was assigned the mortgage entered into by Williams with Sayre and Purdon over Williams' estates and enslaved people on Nevis securing Williams' debt to them of over £15,000. In turn Sayre and Purdon were indebted to Charles Best for £7000.
Common Records 1776-1777, British Library, EAP794/1/1/16, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-16 pp. 1-21 and 343-4. Stephen Sayre is the subject of a biography, John Richard Alden, Stephen Sayre: American Revolutionary Adventurer (LSU Press, 1999).
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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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Sayre and Purdon
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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:
'Stephen Sayre', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146666753 [accessed 21st December 2024].
