23rd Jan 1836 | 124 Enslaved | £3140 18s 5d
Parliamentary Papers p. 312.
T71/880: claim by Thos. and John Berkeley, owners in fee. Counterclaim by Archibald Paull, of 147 Leadenhall St., as 'mortgagee by Indentr. dated 16th April 1830, £20,000 and upwards'. The counterclaim was admitted. Thos. Berkeley, of London, a merchant, was in Brussels according to St Kitts claim no. 674.
Times 19/03/1839 p. 7: John Henry Earle Berkeley, of Mt. Horne, Grenada, bought the Paradise estate for £35,000 in 1815. In 1826 he bought Mt. Horne and Plaisance; in 1827 he bought Paraclete. He lived in Brussels and visited the West Indies. He died in Grenada.
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Colony
Grenada
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Claim No.
700
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Estate
Plaisance Estate
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Contested
Yes
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Unsuccessful claimant
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Unsuccessful claimant
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Awardee (Mortgagee)
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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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Grenada 700 (Plaisance Estate)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/10805 [accessed 19th April 2024].
