11th Apr 1836 | 125 Enslaved | £2773 1s 9d
Parliamentary Papers p. 183.
听
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 88: in 1838, Thomas William Bradshaw bought the Highland estate in St Thomas for 拢14,285. He sold it within a year to Nathaniel Forte for 拢15,714.
听
T71/561 p. 113: enslaved persons were registered by John C. Packer in 1834. 听
听
See also Barbados claim no. 374 for John Cutting Packer as resident in 1834.
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Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
2115
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Estate
Highland
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Collected by
Deane, R atty
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Awardee
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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:
'Barbados 2115 (Highland)', Legacies of British Slavery database, [accessed 20th September 2024].
