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Co-mortgagee with Robert Wallace, James Tasker and James Hunter (all three of whom are identifiable as partners in Wallace Hunter (q.v.)), of two estates and the enslaved people attached to them belonging to Bernard M. Senior in Jamaica. In addition Wallace, Tasker and Robertson were awarded a share in slave compensation in 1837 for a judgement debt from 1824 for £851 plus interest on Spring Garden in Trelawney. John Robertson himself has not been further traced in connection with Wallace, Hunter, although a logical inference would be that he had been a partner in the 1820s at least. He was presumably the same man as the John Robertson who was one of the co-owners with James Tasker and others of the Samson cargo ship, launched at Greenock in 1830.
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Absentee?
British/Irish?
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£3,298 8s 2d
Awardee
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£1,532 11s 5d
Awardee
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£2,094 14s 0d
Awardee
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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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1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
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1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
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1824 [SY] - 1837 [EY] → Judgement creditor
Wallace, Tasker and Robertson were awarded a share in slave compensation in 1837 for a judgement debt from 1824 for £851 plus interest. |
Commercial (1) |
Firm Investment
Wallace Hunter
West India merchant? |
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Business associates
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Business associates
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Business associates
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1785 - 1854
Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2022
CITING THIS RECORD:
'John Robertson', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/46405 [accessed 3rd December 2022].
