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Spouse
Sarah
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Occupation
Merchant
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£309 1s 7d
Awardee
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£867 8s 7d
Awardee (Judgement creditor)
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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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1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - → Owner
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1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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Husband → Wife
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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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Elias Melhado', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/23055 [accessed 20th April 2024].
