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The trustees of Catherine Cole Johnston and her husband Robert Johnston (q.v.) were awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Harmony Hill in St Ann Jamaica. The couple were living in Rhode Island at the time of Emancipation.
T71/857 St Ann no. 118. There are substantial papers related to Catherine Cole Taylor and John Taylor within the Powel papers held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, http://hsp.org/sites/default/files/legacy_files/migrated/findingaid1582powel.pdf [accessed 26/04/2018].
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Absentee?
USA
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Maiden Name
Taylor
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Spouse
Robert Johnston
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£2,184 18s 9d
Beneficiary
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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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1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
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Wife → Husband
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Daughter → Father
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Newport, Rhode Island, USA - United States of America
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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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Catherine Cole Johnston (née Taylor)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/1339515658 [accessed 23rd December 2024].
