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Monumental inscription in the Cathedral in St Catherine, Jamaica: HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MERIDETH THE WIFE OF COLLNEL MODYFORD FREEMAN THE DAUGHTER OF COLLNEL EDWARD STANTON AND PRISCILLA HIS WIFE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 19th DAY OF SEPTEMBR 1697 IN YE 20th YEARE OF HER AGE.
Modyford Freeman of St Thomas-in-the-East, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1700. Slave-ownership at probate: 20 of whom 10 were listed as male and 10 as female. 8 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £878.33 Jamaican currency of which £378 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £78 currency plate.
James Henry Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875) p. 45.
Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.
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Merideth Stanton
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Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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:
'Modyford Freeman', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146663605 [accessed 28th May 2024].
