Maxwell Hyslop

Commercial Legacy Details

Partnership Role

Maxwell Hyslop & Co.
Senior partner

West India & South America merchant

No notes

Firm Notes

Bankruptcy in 1830 of Maxwell Hyslop of Tokenhouse Yard and Kingston Jamaica, partner with Wellwood Hyslop and late partner with Wellwood Hyslop and Edward Burton, carrying on trade in London and at Jamaica under Maxwell Hyslop & Co., and at Carthagena under the name of Wellwood Hyslop & Co., and with Pedro Villamil at Maracaybo Colombia under the name of Hyslops and Villiamil.

Firm Sources

London Gazette 19966 2/4/1841 p. 902.

Further Information

People of Interest

Ann Eliza French

1787 - 1835

Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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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