9th May 1836 | 155 Enslaved | £3361 9s 10d
Parliamentary Papers p. 196.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) pp. 84-5: shows that Charles Thomas Alleyne was the son of John Foster Alleyne, and inherited the Mount Standfast and Porters estates, valued at £44,264, circa 1820. The Alleyne family built holdings in the 1820s and into the 1830s.
T71/562 p. 14: enslaved persons were registered by Charles Thomas Alleyne and Henry Alleyne in 1834.
See also Barbados claim nos. 4362, 4363, 2044 and 4501.
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Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
4361
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Estate
Mount Standfast
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Collected by
Gibbs, George atty
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Uncontested
Yes
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Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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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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'Barbados 4361 (Mount Standfast)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/6778 [accessed 19th April 2024].
