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Trustee, it is currently unknown for whose benefit was the trust. This was almost certainly John Druce solicitor of Billiter Square between at least 1829 and 1840, when the firm's name is given as Charles Druce and Sons.
London Gazette, Issue 18580, 29/05/1829, p. 991 and London Gazette, Issue 19873, 10/07/1840, p. 1635. Another John Druce was a Naval agent c. 1800, in his own name and presumably as part of Ommaney & Druce; Ommaney is shown as an executor of this John Druce in 1827. London Gazette, Issue 15228, 04/02/1800, p. 121; London Gazette, Issue 18339, 27/02/1827, p. 474.
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British/Irish
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£1,417 1s 8d
Awardee (Trustee)
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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:
'John Druce', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/24318 [accessed 23rd December 2024].
