1784 - ????
Sarah P. Williams sold 211 enslaved to Edward Lake Hinds between 1823 and 1826. See Hinds’s Return in the Barbados Slave Register for Westmoreland, St James in 1826.
She was the daughter of John Edwards and Sarah Lewis and married John Prescod Williams (q.v.) in St Lucy, Barbados, 9 August 1810.
T71/538, pp. 153-8; Caribbean Births and Baptisms, 1590-1928, FamilySearch; Caribbean Marriages, 1591-1905, FamilySearch, accessed 22 April 2015.
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Maiden Name
Lewis
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Name in compensation records
Sarah P. Williams
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Spouse
John Prescod Williams
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£233 6s 5d
Awardee
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£252 9s 1d
Awardee
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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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1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Executrix
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1824 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Executrix
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Widow → Deceased Husband
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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:
'Sarah Prescod Williams (née Lewis)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/3960 [accessed 26th December 2024].
