Falmouth
Purchased 1st Jan 1832
Town house in Falmouth Jamaica, now the Falmouth Post Office
Falmouth Field Guide, 'Vermont House', Justin Grieving based on a field report by Ed Chappell, http://falmouth.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/show/falmouth/water-square-and-market-street/post-office [accessed 09/03/2013]. This site shows Thomas Robert Vermont dying in 1865.
Thomas Robert Vermont, 'a senior resident magistrate of the local parish', built Vermont House in Falmouth Jamaica some time after he purchased the lot in September 1832. The building is now the Falmouth Post Office.
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Current owner
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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.
