Barbados 2870 (Vineyard)

25th Apr 1836 | 112 Enslaved | £2239 1s 0d

Claim Details

Claim Notes

Parliamentary Papers p. 187.

T71/897: claim by Thomas Lee and Nicholas R. Garner.

Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 57: Lee and Garner were Liverpool merchants - this was the only claim shown in Table 3.2, 'Compensation awarded directly to merchants'; p.81 - reference to an 1830 Chancery suit versus Richard Smitten on mortgages on Mangrove Pond and The Farm, in St Thomas, and Black Rock, in St James; p.90 - shows Thomas Lee buying Mangrove Pond from Chancery in 1836, and Lightfoots in 1835.

T71/556 p. 238: enslaved persons were registered by Thomas Lee, as the property of Lee & Garner.

T71/1611: letter, dated 23/01/1836, Thomas Lee, 33 Southampton St, [St Helens?], holder with partner of 200 powers of attorney: 'we are under heavy advances to many of them and required to make further advances to others'.


Further Information

Colony
Barbados
Claim No.
2870
Estate
Vineyard
Collected by
Lee, Thomas
Uncontested
Yes

Associated Individuals (2)

Beneficiary
Awardee

Associated Estates (1)