British Guiana 2362

18th Jan 1836 | 27 Enslaved | £1275 8s 4d

Claim Details

Claim Notes

Parliamentary Papers p. 132.

 

T71/887: awarded to the co-partners of the firm of Wm. & James Eccles & Co.

 

T.M. Devine, 'An eighteenth-century business élite: Glasgow-West India merchants, c. 1750-1815', Scottish Historical Review, 57 (1) (April, 1978), pp. 40-67: shows James, Robert and Thomas as the sons of William Eccles, a merchant of Ireland, and as shareholders in Robert Eccles & Co.  

 

T71/433 p. 2364: 29 enslaved persons were registered by Alex Glen in 1832.


Further Information

Colony
British Guiana
Claim No.
2362
Collected by
Eccles, Wm

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