18th Jan 1836 | 102 Enslaved | £2043 8s 10d
Parliamentary Papers p. 50.
T71/867: awarded to Thomas Thomson, St Thomas-in-the-East, surviving co-partner of William Rankin.
James A. Thome and Joseph H. Kimball, Emancipation in the West Indies: A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica in the year 1837 (New York, American Anti-slavery Society, 1838) pp. 285-286: meeting with Thomas Thomson in 1837. Thomson had sold out of his estates, 'one of the old school tyrants', but Thomson also said 'Slavery was a system of horrid cruelties.'
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Colony
Jamaica
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Parish
St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey
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Claim No.
475
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Estate
Newfield
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Collected by
Thomson, J. R[ingster?]
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Uncontested
Yes
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Awardee
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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:
'Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey 475 (Newfield)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/15670 [accessed 19th April 2024].
