Honduras merchant
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Hyde, Hodge & Co. Great St Helens dissolved 1838 as it concerned George Hyde; James Hyde, James Bartlett Hyde & John Hodge continue
John Hodge and James Bartlett Hyde, surviving partners of James Hyde & Co., of Belize, British Honduras merchants and mahogany cutters; late firm of James Hyde & Co. 1861.
John Hodge of Belize, James Bartlett Hyde of No. 2 Great st Helens, surviving co-partners of the firm of James Hyde & Co. Trading at Belize aforesaid.
Lineage asserted between firm established by James Hyde and James Bartlett 'two of the oldest settler families' and John Hodge a London merchant, bought out by British Honduras Company in 1859 which was in turn renamed the Belize Estate and Produce Co. ('B.E.C.) in 1875
London Gazette 19639 24/7/1838 p. 9
London Gazette 22378 20/4/1860 p. 27; London Gazette 22512 21/5/1861 p. 2182.
London Gazette 23099 20/4/1866 p. 34
http://www.belizenet.com/history/toc.html Chapter 7 accessed 2/1/2011.
1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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.
