West India merchant
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The business carried on by the subscribers at Glasgow under the firm of Campbell Rivers & Co., at Liverpool under the firm of Colin and John Campbell and Co., and at Kingston under the firm of Dennistouns, Scheviz & Co., and at New Orleans...under the name of Dennistouns, Bosworth & Co., was terminated in consequence of the expiry of the contract of Copartnery [on 31st October 1821 for Kingston and New Orleans, 31st December 1821 for Glasgow and Liverpool]. All debts due to and by the Company will be discharged by Colin Campbell or George Scheviz. The firms of Campbell, Rivers and Co., in Glasgow and Dennistouns, Scheviz in Jamaica are continued by Richard Dennistoun, Geroge Scheviz and George Campbell, in conjunction with George Alston and Robert Douglas Alston. Subscribers = Colin Campbell, Richard Dennistoun, Colin M'Lachlan; James Dennistoun jun., by his attorney Richard Dennistoun; Geo. Scheviz, Robert Dennistoun; George Campbell, William Bosworth by their attorney Geo. Scheviz; James Buchanan, jun., John Campbell.
London Gazette 17807 9/4/1822 p. 601
???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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.
