2nd May 1836 | 75 Enslaved | £1699 3s 11d
Parliamentary Papers p. 190.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) pp. 99-100: Robert Reece bought the property 1832 and Sarah Bispham contested his claim on the basis of a mortgage to William Clark Haynes in 1830 [although it is classified as uncontested in the compensation records].
T71/555 p. 291: enslaved persons were registered by Robert Reece in 1834.
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Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
3285
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Estate
Bannatyne (?)
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Collected by
Lee, Thos atty.
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Awardee
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1810 - ????
Enslaved young woman in St Peter, Barbados. Manumitted on the eve of Emancipation. Married a butcher in Speightstown.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Barbados 3285 (Bannatyne (?))', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/2788 [accessed 30th September 2022].
