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Resident slave-owner in Jamaica, dying c. 1834. His widow Dorothy Cammack Myers was awarded compensation for enslaved people previously registered by William Myers.
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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] - → Agent
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1826 [EA] - → Not known
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - → Joint owner
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Brother → Sister
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Inferred by LBS. Sarah Tierney Myers identified her nephew as John Morrison Myers in her will; in turn John Morrison Myers was identified in the Cambridge Alumni as son of William Myers of Jamaica....
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Deceased Husband → Widow
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Brothers
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Son → Father
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Inferred...
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Son → Mother
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27th Nov 1782 - 8th Dec 1862
Wesleyan Minister, apparently sought to manumit his enslaved people for religious reasons
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'William Myers', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146645867/ [accessed 29th March 2023].
