James Hewitt Massy-Dawson

Commercial Legacy Details

Company Role

Rock Reversionary and Loan Society
Director

1824 - ????

Financial services - credit (Financial services - credit)

No notes

Firm Notes

fl. 1824-1849, the Society was advertising in 1824 for proposals for the purchase of interests in real and personal property for life, for years, in perpetuity and in reversion. Of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and 14 directors in 1824, at least five appear in the compensation records : the Chairman Charles Nicholas Pallmer; William Peatt Litt; John Bourke Ricketts; J.H. Massey Dawson; and Nevile Reid.

Firm Sources

The Edinburgh Gazette Publication date:10 September 1824 Issue:3263 Page:168

Further Information

People of Interest

October alias Robert Barclay

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.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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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