1738 - 1774
Attorney for his uncle John Cope Freeman in Jamaica, between at least 1764 and 1772.
George Fra. Hampson of Kingston, baronet. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1781. Slave-ownership at probate: 17 of whom 10 were listed as male and 7 as female. 1 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £5831.41 Jamaican currency of which £810 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £4700.16 currency debts and £10.03 currency plate.
The will of Francis George Hampson was proved in Jamaica 14/12/1775.
Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.
LOS 42.
We are grateful to Daniel Livesay for his assistance with this entry.
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Spouse
Mary Pinnock
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Children
Thomas Philip
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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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1764 [SY] - 1772 [EY] → Attorney
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Nephew → Uncle
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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.
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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Sir George Francis Hampson 6th Bart.', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146650217/ [accessed 24th March 2023].
