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Resident attorney in Jamaica, local agent of W.R. Bernard in the latter's capacity as sole executor (see notes on Jamaica (St James) claim no. 359), and latterly as a slave-owner in his own right as co-owner of Vaughansfield.
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£42 7s 5d
Awardee
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£1,257 4s 11d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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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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1826 [EA] - → Executor
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - → Other
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1829 [EA] - → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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Business associates
Notes →
The two men were co-owners of Vaughansfield...
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Husband → Wife
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1789 - 14th Mar 1860
Possibly the first 'ethnic minority' MP to be elected (in 1832) to the House of Commons.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'William Henry Knott', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/43270/ [accessed 27th March 2023].
