Samuel Misson Richards

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With John Bradshaw (q.v.) awarded the compensation for enslaved people in 40 claims on Antigua. The two men were almost certainly buying up small claims from slave-owners in Antigua.

A Samuel Misson Richards married at Liverpool in Q2 1859. Otherwise there is no trace of Richards in Britain.

Sources

FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Marriages, 1837-1983 [database online].

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Samuel Misson Richards

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John Bradshaw

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People of Interest

Colin Campbell Lloyd (née Baillie)

1781 - 1830

Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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:
'Samuel Misson Richards', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/40886 [accessed 27th December 2024].

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