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Jedediah Kerie Edmead

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Free man of colour, one of the 14 named men of colour to whom civil liberties were extended in 1830 on St Kitts, shown as the owner 1817-1834 of Lavingtons (an estate identified elsewhere as Key), the compensation for which was paid into the Chancery suit of Boddington v Seton.


Sources

Parliamentary Papers Vol. no. 15 An Act to Extend the Privileges of the Native Free Coloured and Black Inhabitants of this Island (December 1830) Accounts and Papers 1831-1832 Vol. XXXI.

Associated Claims (4)

St Kitts 465
£234 17s 7d
Awardee
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St Kitts 466
£82 11s 6d
Awardee
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St Kitts 467
£15 1s 3d
Awardee
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St Kitts 754 (Lavingtons)
£1,105 9s 5d
Beneficiary unsuccessful
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Associated Estates (2)

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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Key [Lavingtons in the compensation records] [ St Kitts ]
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
Unknown [ St Kitts ]