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Glasgow West India merchant, partner in Hamilton, Garden (q.v.) and then senior partner in Francis Garden & Sons (q.v.), which failed c. 1814. Francis Garden & Co. was active from at least 1781; his two sons Alexander and Hamilton W. Garden became partners with him. Alexander Garden, who left the partnership before its failure, was later Provost of Glasgow. No death date has been found for Francis Garden.
Devine, T. M. “An Eighteenth-Century Business Élite: Glasgow-West India Merchants, c. 1750-1815.” The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 57, no. 163, 1978, pp. 40–67. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25529280. Accessed 15 Apr. 2024.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Commercial (2) |
Name partner
Hamilton, Garden
West India merchant |
Senior partner
Francis Garden & Sons
West India merchant |
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Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Central Scotland, Scotland
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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:
'Francis Garden', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146667519 [accessed 23rd December 2024].
