1798 - 1886
London solicitor, brother of Thomas Drew Beavan (q.v., a trustee on an award in Jamaica) counterclaimed apparently unsuccessfully for the compensation for the enslaved people on Bachelor's Adventure in British Guiana under a mortgage, possibly as agent of Thomas Hopkinson (q.v.), and signed at the NDO for the compensation awarded to Joseph Hopkinson for the enslaved people on Clonbrock, again in British Guiana.
T71/885 British Guiana no. 568A & B (which identifies him as of Sackville Street); British Guiana no. 577.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Wealth at death
£11,658 2S 1D
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Occupation
Lawyer
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£36,270 18s 2d
Unsuccessful claimant (Mortgagee)
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Brothers
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Sackville Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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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:
'John Phillips Beavan', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146630439 [accessed 23rd December 2024].
