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Amsterdam merchant, awarded with others the compensation for the enslaved people on La Fraternite and Nieuw Hoop in British Guiana, in both cases probably as mortgagees.
T71/885 British Guiana nos. 290 and 357.
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Absentee?
'Foreign'
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Occupation
Merchant
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£3,889 15s 11d
Awardee
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£7,861 18s 0d
Awardee
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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:
'Pieter Swanenberg', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/45301 [accessed 23rd November 2024].
