28th Sep 1835 | 165 Enslaved | £2804 4s 7d
Parliamentary Papers p. 8.
T71/855: awarded to John Gale Vidal, St Catherine, owner-in-fee.
Times 11/12/1824 p. 4: sale of Shenton, as a result of James Wildman's bankruptcy, subject to an annuity for life of £800 of a lady aged about 71 years.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 60 shows this as mercantile interception; Vidal was the Mitchell's attorney in Jamaica, and therefore the relationship may have been sufficiently close not to require a counterclaim.
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Colony
Jamaica
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Parish
St Thomas-in-the-Vale
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Claim No.
4
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Estate
Shenton Estate
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Collected by
Mitchell, Rowland
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Uncontested
Yes
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Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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-Vale 4 (Shenton Estate)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/20818 [accessed 25th April 2024].
