No Date | 146 Enslaved | £3213 18s 1d
Not listed in Parliamentary Papers.
T71/897: claim by Catherine Smitten. Numerous counterclaims were made: from inter alios Brandon and Killick; Benjmain Ifill; Isaac and Solomon Jacob Levi. The case went to the colonial court on 30/11/1838.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) pp. 104-5: Catherine Smitten had estates sold by the Court of Chancery in 1836, but bought Maynards in 1836.
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Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
2186
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Estate
Mangrove Pond
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Claimants in List E or Chancery cases
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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:
'Barbados 2186 (Mangrove Pond)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/6826 [accessed 26th April 2024].
