1816 - 1882
Alexander Grant Dallas (1816-1882), born in Berbice, son of Murdoch Dallas (q.v.) and colonist in Canada. Joined Jardine Matheson, was later a director of the Hudsons Bay Company, married Jane Douglas the daughter of James Douglas, the man of colour who became Governor of Vancouver Island in Canada, and himself appears in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography as 'HBC administrator and businessman.'
Ancestry.com, England, Select Burials, 1538-1991 [database online]; Slaves & Highlanders; Dictionary of Canadian Biography, W. Kaye Lamb, 'Dallas, Alexander Grant', http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=5461 [accessed 21/02/2014].
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Director
Hudson's Bay Company Canada
notes → Also served as President of Council and Governor in Chief of our territory of Rupert's Land in 1862....
sources → W. Kaye Lamb, 'Dallas, Alexander Grant, HBC administrator and businessman', <a...
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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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Alexander Grant Dallas', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644863 [accessed 19th September 2024].
