1770 - 1815
Resident slave-owner in Jamaica, from a Scottish family. His father Walter Monteath of Kep was bankrupt in 1785 and his estate sequestrated. John Monteath bought Aniaso, later baptised Archibald John Monteath, c. 1802: a narrative of the life of Archibald John Monteath has been reconstructed by by Maureen Warner-Lewis.
William Maxwell Morrison, Decisions of the Court of Session (1801) Vol. 2 p. 1146, 'The Trustee on the estate of Walter Monteath against Colin Douglas and others', 12th December 1794; Maureen Warner-Lewis, Archibald Monteath, Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian (UWI Press, 2007).
We are grateful to Morag Fyfe for her help with this entry.
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1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner
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