23rd Nov 1835 | 321 Enslaved | £7029 16s 1d
Parliamentary Papers p. 19.
T71/858: claim from 'Joseph B and Elizabeth Osborn Yates [sic] Clarendon, trustees and executor and executrix of Kean Osborn'.
Times 29/07/1867 p 1: announcement by Samuel Ashton Thompson that he was taking the Yates surname in accordance with a certain instrument of Joseph Brooks Yates's will of 1855.
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Colony
Jamaica
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Parish
Vere
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Claim No.
65
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Estate
Caswell Hill
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Uncontested
Yes
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Beneficiary deceased
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Awardee (Executor or executrix)
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Awardee (Executor or executrix)
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Awardee
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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:
'Jamaica Vere 65 (Caswell Hill)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/18800 [accessed 23rd April 2024].
