Margaret Taylor

Awarded the compensation for a single enslaved person (named Margaret Taylor Bennett) in Kingston Jamaica.

1. 'A person of colour late of Kingston Jamaica but now residing at Dawlish in the county of Devon.' She came to England 1830 as attendant to a Lady 'with whom she has ever since resided'. Owned one slave Margaret Taylor Bennett domiciled in Kingston, 'became possessed of the said slave by purchase from the savings alone of her own industry'. Did not claim 'in consequence of your Petitioner's secluded situation and from utter ignorance of the course to be pursued.'

She was conceivably the servant of Hannah Barnes (q.v.), but no trace of her has yet been found after the mid-1830s.

Kingston no. 2659.

1. T71/1607 petition received 12/11/1835 from Margaret Taylor.