No Dates
Awarded a share (with his wife Sarah) of the compensation for the enslaved people on the Woodstock estate in St Ann Jamaica as one of dozens of legatees of William White, many of whom had connections with Essex or parts of what is now East London. Nothing further has been traced of the couple to date.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Mary
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£1,453 12s 6d
Awardee (Legatee)
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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 Dangerfield', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146631154 [accessed 25th December 2024].
