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1815 [EA] - 1816 [LA] → Owner
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Demerara - not yet traced in the slave registers or in the compensation records. |
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1815
[Name] Recess
[Crop] Cotton Announcement of the public execution sale of the cotton Plantation Recess situated in a Cary [sic] on the east coast of Demerary (with its 'appurtenances' and the enslaved people on it) to be held in March 1816 in behalf of James Watson versus the representative of Alexander Tulloh, proprietor of Plantation Recess.
London Gazette 17040 15/07/1815 p. 1434
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28th Mar 1802 - 6th May 1874
Daughter of a wealthy planter and wife of the rector of St Elizabeth, Jamaica. Bigamous convicted forger.
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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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Recess [ British Guiana | Demerara ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/7626 [accessed 2nd November 2024].
