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Slave-owner in Jamaica. Possibly the Alexander MacLarty brother of Colin MacLarty identified by Alan Karras as moving to Jamaica in 1797, both medical men. Alexander MacLarty acted as attorney for Colin Maclarty's Chester Vale estate 1817-1820, and himself owned Clydesdale in Port Royal. Dead by 1821.
Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 p. 60.
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Absentee?
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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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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
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1810 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
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1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
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1820 [EA] - → Agent
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Testator → Trustee
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Other relatives
Notes →
William Shand's first wife was Alexander MacLarty's...
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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:
'Alexander MacLarty', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146638885 [accessed 8th October 2024].
