Slave Factors (Colonial - Canada)
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Merchant and slave-trading firm of Kingston Jamaica and then Liverpool, a partnership between Samuel Rainford, Robert Rainford [sen.] and Jonathan Blundell jun.
Sheryllynne Haggerty, Merely for Money? Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815 pp. 181-188.
1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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.
