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Shown as owner and then awardee of compensation for a group of enslaved people probably attached to Inverness plantation that belonged to her husband (the two claim numbers were adjacent).
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£285 18s 9d
Awardee
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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
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1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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Wife → Husband
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1774 - 1832
Head driver on Great Valley estate in Hanover, Jamaica. Executed by hanging following Sam Sharpe's War.
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Susannah Mathison or Matheson', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/21030/ [accessed 20th April 2024].
