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Robert Fergusson

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Shown in the Jamaica Almanacs against three linked estates in St Thomas-in-the-East between 1810 and 1821: in the Slave Registers Sarah Fergusson (q.v.) owned a similar number of enslaved people between 1817 and 1820, selling all or many of them to the Harbour Head estate before 1823.

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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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1810 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Not known
Mount Donald / Castle Hill / Grampion [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Registered to Robert Fergusson 1810-1821. He was probably owner, but conceivably the previous owner in the later years: the enslaved people might have been the same as those shown against Sarah Fergusson in 1817 and 1820.

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Robert Fergusson
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Sarah Fergusson
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Tentatively inferred by LBS to have owned the same group of enslaved people in St Thomas-in-the-East, sold by Sarah Fergusson between 1820 and...