Alexander Buchanan, a pioneering settler in South Australia, was born in Glasgow in 1810, 'the son of a Scots coffee planter in Jamaica'. Online genealogical material identifies him as the son of Alexander Buchanan of Newport, St Mary in Jamaica. LBS has not to date verified this.
http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=5248 [accessed 17/08/2019]. Alexander Buchanan in South Australia was an agent for Frederick Hansborough Dutton, who with his brothers has an entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography as pastoralists, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dutton-frederick-hansborough-2240 [accessed 17/08/2019].
1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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.
