West India merchant
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Dissolution of co-partnership between John Miller, Robert Ferguson and John Stuart at Glasgow under firm of John Miller and Company and at Kingston Jamaica under the firm of Miller, Ferguson and Co., 31/12/1828, John Miller retiring: business to be carried on under firm of John Miller, jun., and Co., and in Kingston under firm Miller, Ferguson and Stuart
Glasgow June 14 1838; Dissolution of co-partnerships carried on by the subscribers as merchants in Kingston in Jamaica under the firm Miller, Ferguson and Stuart, and in Glasgow under the firm of Robert Ferguson and Company: John Stuart authorised to receive and pay all debts. Robert Ferguson, John Miller junr., John Stuart
London Gazette 18564 3/4/1829 p. 631
London Gazette 19628 22/6/1838 p. 1425 [extract from Edinburgh Gazette of June 19 1838]
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.
