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Liverpool merchant, partner in Ewart Myers (q.v.), awarded the compensation with his partners for Long Lane Delaps in Antigua as mortgagees-in-trust. Taylor retired in 1837, although this was only notified in 1843.
T71/877 Antigua no. 86.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Name in compensation records
Wm Taylor
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Occupation
Merchant
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£2,790 8s 8d
Awardee (Mortgagee)
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Business partners
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Business partners
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Business partners
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Liverpool, Lancashire, North-west England, England
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1789 - 14th Mar 1860
Possibly the first 'ethnic minority' MP to be elected (in 1832) to the House of Commons.
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:
'William Taylor', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/44891 [accessed 8th November 2024].
