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Partner in Robert Semple & Co. (q.v.) of Berbice and Liverpool. Apparently resident in Berbice.
London Gazette, Issue 21003, p. 2370: announcement 16/06/1849 inviting to come forward creditors of the estate of James Laing an inhabitant of Berbice and partner with George Laing at New Amsterdam in Laing Brothers and Company, an insolvent under Ordnance No. 29 1846. Laing appears to have been alive still at this stage: George Laing deceased follows immediately afterwards, who died in transit between Madeira and St Helena aboard the Prince Regent in around 26/01/1847.
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£581 8s 1d
Awardee
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Commercial (1) |
Other partner
Robert Semple & Co.
West India merchant |
1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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 Laing', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/41717 [accessed 20th April 2024].
