25th Apr 1836 | 153 Enslaved | £3054 13s 2d
Parliamentary Papers p. 189.
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 87: Bezsin Reece's first estate purchase was of the Yorkshire estate in 1830; he went on to acquire other estates in the 1830s, including The Pine.
T71/555 p. 279: enslaved persons were registered by Bezsin Reece in 1834.
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Colony
Barbados
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Claim No.
3174
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Estate
Yorkshire plantation
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Collected by
Reece, Bezsin
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Uncontested
Yes
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Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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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'Barbados 3174 (Yorkshire plantation)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/4758 [accessed 9th November 2024].
