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Bennet or Bennett Harvey, awarded compensation as owner of Airy Mount in St John Jamaica, and counterclaiming as guardian of Frances Summers for other enslaved people on the same estate.
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£580 10s 11d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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£677 11s 0d
Unsuccessful claimant (consensual) (Guardian)
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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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1819 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Given as Bennett Hervey |
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Guardian
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1817 [EA] - → Executor
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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:
'Bennett Harvey', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/20024 [accessed 23rd December 2024].
