Associated People (14) |
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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
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1822 [SY] - 1829 [EY] → Joint owner
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1822 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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1822 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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1822 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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1822 [SY] - 1829 [LA] → Joint owner
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1768 [EA] - 1769 [LA] → Owner
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1778 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Joint owner
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1780 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Joint owner
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1785 [EA] - 1822 [EY] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
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1822 [EA] - 1836 [LA] → Previous owner
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1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - → Attorney
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£4,323 1S 10D
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Gray's Inn was located south of Annotto Bay in the old parish of St. George. A plan of the estate was drawn up in 1839 by Edmund Wallace Elmslie, possibly a relative of the former owner John Elmsie. Higman noted that by the end of the 1820s there were 300 enslaved people working on the estate but that high mortlity figures led the population to drop to 250 people by 1834. |
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B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), pp.136-8 |
Estate Information (57) |
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1765
[Name] Gray's Inn
[Crop] sugar, rum and logwood Account filed by Alexander Bell as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 136
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1768
[Name] Grays Inn
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to John Gray of the Kingdom of Great Britain Esq. Account filed by William Dickson as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 146
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1775
[Name] Grays Inn
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by John Boyn.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 11
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1776
[Name] Grays Inn
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by John Boyn, planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 98-9
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1778
[Name] Grays Inn
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Messrs Elmslie and Thomas. Account filed by Samuel Thomson late the overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 88
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1779
[Name] Grays Inn
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Messrs Elmslie and Thomas. Account filed by John McLaren.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 186
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1780
[Name] Grays Inn Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, horses Property of John Elmslie & John Thomas of Great Britain Esquires and in the Care and Dircetion of John McLacren Esquire their Attorney. Account Filed by John Sanderson, planter. Grays Inn Plantation & Fairyland (sp?) Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 31
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1781
[Name] Grays Inn Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, horses Property of Messieurs Elmslie & Thomas. Account filed by John McLaren, planter. Grays Inn Plantation & Fairyland (sp?) Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 44
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1782
[Name] Grays Inn Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of John Elmslie & John Thomas of Great Britain Esquires. Account filed by John McLean, attorney for Grays Inn. Grays Inn Plantation & Fairyland Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 193
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1783
[Name] Grays Inn
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of John Elmslie and John Thomas. Account filed by John McLaren, planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 101-2
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1785
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Property of John Elmslie Esq.; account filed by Robert Watson, overseer of Grays Inn Estate. Grays Inn Estate and Fairyland Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 63
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1786
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Account filed by Robert Watson, overseer. Grays Inn Estate and Fairyland Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 152
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1787
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Property of John Elenslie; account filed by William Henderson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 123
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1787
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle The property of John Elmslie Esq; account filed by William Henderson as overseer. Grays Inn Estate and Fairy Land Pen filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 224
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1788
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle The property of John Elmslie Esquire. Account filed by William Henderson as overseer. Grays Inn Estate and Fairyland Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 100
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1789
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle The property of John Elmslie Esquire. Account filed by William Henderson planter as overseer. Grays Inn Estate and Fairy Land Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 433-434 f.214
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1790
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle The property of John Elmslie Esquire. Account filed by William Henderson as overseer. Grays Inn Estate and Fairyland Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 301
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1791
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, horses Belonging to John Elmslie Esquire. Account filed by William Henderson. Grays Inn Estate and Fairyland Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 399 [f.190]
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1792
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by William Henderson as overseer. Grays Inn Estate and Fairyland Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 188-189 [f.95]
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1793
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, one horse Account filed by William Sanderson as overseer. Grays Inn Estate and Fairy Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 27
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1794
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, one horse, old copper Account filed by William Newton as overseer. Grays Inn Estate and Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 33
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1794
[Name] Grays Inn Penn
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, one horse, old copper Account filed by William Newton as overseer. Grays Inn Estate and Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 33
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1795
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, one horse Account filed by William Sanderson as overseer. Grays Inn Estate and Fairy Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 217
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1796
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, Account filed by Alexander Park, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Grays Inn Estate and Pen
[Crop] sugar, rum Owner not given. Account filed by Alexander Park, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 177
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1798
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, horses, mules Belonging to Chaloner Arcedeckne Esq. Account filed by Alex.r Park. Grays Inn Estate and Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 165
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1798
[Name] Grays Inn Penn
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, horses, mules Belonging to Chaloner Arcedeckne Esq. Account filed by Alex.r Park. Grays Inn Estate and Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 165
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1798
[Name] Grays-Inn
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St George as a sugar estate with a watermill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
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1799
[Name] Gray's Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, copper, hens, cows, horses, Account filed by Andrew Sutherland overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 120
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1800
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Andrew Sutherland planter overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 47
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1801
[Name] Grays Inn
[Crop] sugar and rum, some cattle Account filed by Andrew Sutherland.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 185
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1803
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Andrew Sutherland. Grays Inn Estate and Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 169
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1803
[Name] Grays Inn Penn
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Andrew Sutherland. Grays Inn Estate and Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 169
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1804
[Name] Grays Inn Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, mules, heifers, cows and steers Belonging to John Elmslie, Esq. Account filed by Andrew Sutherland (status not given).
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 177?
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1807
[Name] Grays Inn
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Property of John Elmslee Esq. Account presented by John Duff.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 213
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 8 Registered to John Elmsley senior.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11George.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 16 Registered to John Elmsly senior.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812and.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 378(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 280 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 355(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 291 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 351(Tot) 170(F) 181(M)
[Name] Grays Inn Estate In the possession of Andrew Sutherland Esquire as Attorney of John Elmslie Esquire.
T71/158 127
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 349(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 214 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 346(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 296 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 342(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Andrew Sutherland as Attorney of John Elinslie(sp?) Esquire.
T71/159 319
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 348(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 306 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 339(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 395 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 338(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn Estate In the possession of James Laing and Thomas P. Rogers as Attornies to james Elmslie, Adam Wallace Elmslie, John Elmslie, Henry Simpson Elmslie and William Elmslie, joint Proprietors of Gray's Inn Estate.
T71/160 188
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 340(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 358 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 334(Tot) 167(F) 167(M)
[Name] Grays Inn Estate In the possession of James Laing and Thomas P. Rogers as Attorneys of James Elmslie, Adam W. Elmslie, John Elmslie, Henry J. Elmslie and William Elmslie joint proprietors of Grays Inn Estate.
T71/161 84
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 332(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 231 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 334(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 235 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 327(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 160 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29portgeorg.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 314(Tot) 154(F) 160(M)
[Name] Grey's Inn Estate In the possession of George William Hamilton as Attorney of James Elmslie, Adam W. Elmslie, John Elmslie, Henry S. Elmslie and William Elmslie, Joint proprieotrs of Grey's Inn Estate.
T71/162 345
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 306(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 168 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 291(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 164 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 285(Tot)
[Name] Gray's Inn [Stock] 96 Registered to John Elmslie.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 280(Tot) 137(F) 143(M)
[Name] Gray's Inn Estate In the possession of Robert Fairweather as Attorney to the Heirs of the late John Elmslie Esquire deceased. As last registered by George William Hamilton Esquire.
T71/163 83
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1839
[Name] Gray's Inn
[Size] 2106 Registered to Alex. Geddes.
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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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.
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Gray's Inn Castle [ Jamaica | St George ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2581 [accessed 25th April 2024].
