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Edinburgh accountant, awarded the compensation for enslaved people on Iter Boreale in St George and Heywood Hall in St Mary as one of the trustees for Robert Mackay & Co., and on Concordia in Tobago as executor of Elizabeth Wightman.
T71/869 St George no. 327; T71/856 St Mary no. 244; T7/891 Tobaog no. 46.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Occupation
Accountant
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£4,942 15s 8d
Awardee (Trustee)
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£2,936 10s 11d
Awardee (Trustee)
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£1,706 10s 1d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
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15 Queen Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian (Edinburgh), Central Scotland, Scotland
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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 Renton', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/45888 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
