Jamaica Kingston 2659

Parliamentary Papers p. 41.

T71/1607: petition received on 12/11/1835 from Margaret Taylor 'a person of colour late of Kingston Jamaica but now residing at Dawlish in the county of Devon' stating that she came to England in 1830 as attendant to a Lady 'with whom she has ever since resided'. She owned one enslaved person named Margaret Taylor Bennett domiciled in Kingston, 'became possessed of the said slave by purchase from the savings alone of her own industry'. She did not claim 'in consequence of your Petitioner's secluded situation and from utter ignorance of the course to be pursued'.

See possible link to Mrs H. Barnes: Kingston claim no. 1856 and St Catherine claim no. 502.