4th Jul 1836 | 152 Enslaved | £2881 5s 0d
Parliamentary Papers p. 299.
T71/867: claim by John West and David Laing, St Thomas-in-the-East, trustees of Mount Lebanus Estate. Counterclaim from Wm Wyllys [of Morley House in the parish of Stanton Drew Somerset - T71/1200] for an annuity of £700, due £1600.
T71/150 p. 561: enslaved persons registered by Thomas McCornock as attorney to the trustees of Mt Lebanus estate in 1832.
Jamaica Almanac (1832): Mt Lebanus registered to William Wyllys.
Alan Furness 'The Jamaican coffee Boom and John Mackeson, A Blue Mountain coffee planter 1807-19', Jamaican Historical Review Vol. III No. 3 March 1962: identifies Wm Wyllys as owner of Mt Lebanus in 1807, when Wyllys and his brother-in-law John Mackeson travelled together to Jamaica.
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Colony
Jamaica
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Parish
St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey
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Claim No.
473
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Estate
Mount Lebanus Estate
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Contested
Yes
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Unsuccessful claimant (consensual)
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Awardee (Trustee)
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Awardee (Trustee)
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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:
'Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey 473 (Mount Lebanus Estate)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/22206 [accessed 9th November 2024].
