Jamaica Portland 259 (part) (Friendship Hall)

Parliamentary Papers p. 300.

T71/868: a complex case. Yates counterclaimed as joint tenants of a term of years 500, as lessors of plantation in judgement of ejection etc., for £10,717 18s 1/2d, from February 1823. For details see T71/868.

John Hughes, Liverpool Banks & Bankers 1760-1837.  A history of the circumstances which gave rise to the industry and of the men who founded it. (Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons, 1906) p. 79: description of the failure in July 1833 of Fletcher Roscoe & Co., a Liverpool bank in which Yates' erstwhile partner Thomas Fletcher was in turn a partner. Among the assets of Thomas Fletcher were a one-fourth interest in a mortgage for £5636 7s 1d on Friendship Hall, this coffee plantation in Portland with 70 enslaved persons; and one-fourth of a mortgage for £16,000 on the moiety of a sugar estate called Fellowship Hall, St Mary's, and the 50 enslaved persons on the estate.