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Resident slave-owner in Barbados. James Thomas Rogers bought the Lammings estate, St Joseph, in 1837 from James Wm Biddy for £10,000. He paid a deposit of £8571 and undertook to clear the debts of the estate.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 89.
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Name in compensation records
James T. Rogers
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£2,207 19s 8d
Awardee
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£97 1s 11d
Awardee
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£33 0s 3d
Awardee
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£3,394 10s 1d
Awardee
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£2,207 19s 8d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
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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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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Rogers was later Morris's executor but his registering capacity in 1832 was not shown. |
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1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
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1837 [SY] - → Owner
James Thomas Rogers bought the Lammings estate, St Joseph, in 1837 from James Wm Biddy for £10,000. He paid a deposit of £8571 and undertook to clear the debts of the estate. |
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
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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.
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:
'James Thomas Rogers', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/41287 [accessed 21st November 2024].
