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Jamaica slave-owner, owner of the Latium estate, dying at Cheltenham 26/09/1794 aged 54 leaving a wife and five sons. Two of these sons were probably William Murray and Walter Murray of Dundee (each of whom q.v.).
CARIBBEANA Volume IV MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN ENGLAND RELATING TO JAMAICANS
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Absentee?
Transatlantic
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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
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1795 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Previous owner
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1774 [EA] - → Owner
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Business associates
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Probably also father and son, although possibly...
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Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England
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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.
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:
'Walter Murray the elder', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146651093 [accessed 3rd November 2024].
