Clement Horton

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Will of Clement Horton storekeeper of HM's Ordnance Barbados [made in 1791] proved 05/06/1813. He left to his wife Mary [then in England] his property at Sevenoaks in Kent and named enslaved people: 'viz. Eoin and George men, Scipio a boy, Betty Grace and Rose women with their future issue and increase and Betty a girl with her future issue and increase..and whatever other slaves I am in possession of'. He made his wife his universal legatee with reversion to his mother for life and then to the two children of his brother William.

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PROB 11/1545/89

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Mary

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Sevenoaks, Kent, South-east England, England

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Ann Katherine Storer (née Hill)

1785 - 1854

Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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:
'Clement Horton', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146654639 [accessed 19th April 2024].

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