1803 - 1886
Clergyman resident in Barbados in the 1830s when he was awarded compensation for the enslaved people on Thorpe Cottage as owner and on Thurban, Chimbarago [?] and one other estate in Barbados as executor of Geo. Thorpe, assignee of judgement creditor. George Thorpe was his grandfather. By 1861, Rev. James King Went was in England, living first at Paddington and then at West Teignmouth Devon in 1871 and 1881. Messrs Samuel and James King Went had been slave factors in Barbados in the 1770s.
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Spouse
Elizabeth Ann
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University
Cambridge (Corpus Christi) [1825 ]
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£605 17s 8d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
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£1,790 9s 4d
Awardee
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£1,033 13s 7d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
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£473 16s 8d
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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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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
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Grandson → Grandfather
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Son → Mother
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Teignmouth, Devon, Devon & Cornwall, England
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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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Rev. James King Went', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/41093 [accessed 8th November 2024].
