8th Aug 1836 | 172 Enslaved | £3955 14s 8d
Parliamentary Papers p. 327.
T71/899: counterclaim from Richard Deane.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 103: the Westmoreland estate was sold in 1826 by Sarah Prescod Wiliams.
T71/563 p. 122: Edward Lake Hinds registered 173 enslaved persons in 1834.
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Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
4849
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Estate
Westmoreland
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Contested
Yes
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Awardee
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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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'Barbados 4849 (Westmoreland)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/6113 [accessed 19th April 2024].
