Henry Osburne Seward

Commercial Legacy Details

Partnership Role

Seward and Davison
Senior partner

West India merchant - British Guiana

No notes

Firm Notes

Henry Osborn [sic] Seward and William Davison, carrying on business in this district under the firm of Seward and Davison, instigated the sale of plantation Fellowship belonging to Richard Watson by Deputy First Marshal of District of Demerary and Essequebo. William Davison was shown as an insolvent by June 1863 [amounts deposited 15/6/1860]

Firm Sources

London Gazette 19231 20/1/1835 p. 107; 22741 2/6/1863 p. 2880

Further Information

People of Interest

Ann Eliza French

1787 - 1835

Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.

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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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