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Partner in Sampson, Ainslie & Co. of Pamplemousses. Awarded the compensation for several claims in Mauritius. By 1851 his family were in England, Sarah Sampson widow aged 40 living at West Street Fareham Hampshire with two daughters and a son, all born Mauritius. The older daughter Sophia, aged 20 in 1851, married in London in 1856.
1851 census online; Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online] for Sophia Mary Anne Sampson, which gives her father as John Shaw Sampson deceased, gentleman.
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£613 3s 0d
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£37 18s 4d
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£349 19s 3d
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£721 5s 1d
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£4,901 7s 4d
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£349 19s 3d
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Business partners
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27th Nov 1782 - 8th Dec 1862
Wesleyan Minister, apparently sought to manumit his enslaved people for religious reasons
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023
CITING THIS RECORD:
'John Shaw Sampson', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146006569 [accessed 30th November 2023].
