British Guiana 2455 (Anna Regina)

18th Jan 1836 | 805 Enslaved | £40353 18s 3d

Claim Details

Claim Notes

Parliamentary Papers p. 133.

Izhak Gross, 'The Abolition of Negro Slavery and British Parliamentary Politics 1832-3', Historical Journal, 23 (1) (1980) p. 69: John Moss negotiated secretly with Howick, February -March 1833, on the compensation.

T71/433 p. 1881: 800 enslaved persons were registered for J. and H. Moss, by their attorney John MacLean.

Walter Rodney (ed.), Guyanese Sugar Plantations in the late Nineteenth Century: a contemporary description from the Argosy (Georgetown, Release Publishers, 1979) p. 19: in 1883, the estate belonged to Sir Thomas Moss (= Sir Thomas Edwards-Moss), who invested a net new £70,000 in the previous four years.


Further Information

Colony
British Guiana
Claim No.
2455
Estate
Anna Regina
Collected by
Barclay, R of Bevan, Barclay, Tritton
Uncontested
Yes

Associated Individuals (2)

Awardee
Awardee

Associated Estates (1)