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Monumental inscription in Kingston Cathedral: HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MRS ELIZABETH FREEMAN WHO DYED JULY 2d 1728 AGED 50 YEARS ALSO ANN GOAD, HER NIECE, OBIIT 11 SEP 1731, AGED 31 YEARS. LIKEWISE, YE BODY OF CAPTAIN GAYWOOD GOADE, HER NEPHEW OBIIT 1st SEPTR. 1758, AGED 45 YRS.
Elizabeth Freeman of St Thomas-in-the-East, widow. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1728. Slave-ownership at probate: 120 of whom 64 were listed as male and 56 as female. 41 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £7262.91 Jamaican currency of which £3081 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £241 currency cash, £4247.81 currency debts and £43.5 currency plate.
James Henry Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875) pp. 90-91.
Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.
1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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:
'Elizabeth Freeman', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146663607 [accessed 27th May 2024].
