1726 - 1802
Vice Admiral James Seton (1726-1802) was governor of St Vincent 1787-1798, and was reportedly granted the right to use the title of Earl of Dunfermline by George III. Father of James Seton (d. 1831) (q.v.), who himself had been on St Vincent during the Carib War. Vice Admiral James Seton bought and rebuilt Brook Heath or Brookheath House in Hampshire. LBS has not to date traced slave-ownership by Vice Admiral James Seton.
George Seton, History of the Family of Seton during eight centuries (Edinburgh, 1896) Vol. II, pp. 630-631; http://www2.thesetonfamily.com:8080/gallery/Brookheath_House.htm [accessed 24/08/2020]; http://www2.thesetonfamily.com:8080/history/Profiles/Vice_Admiral_James_Seton_of_Barnes.htm [accessed 24/08/2020].
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Transatlantic
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Country house
Brook Heath house [Built]
description → Country house in Fordingbridge Hampshire, bought and remodelled by Vice Admiral James...
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Brook Heath, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, Wessex, England
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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:
'Vice Admiral James Seton', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146665579/ [accessed 8th October 2024].
