West India merchant (Colonial - Caribbean)
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Partners listed c. 1795 as Robert McKay, James Gordon, John Riddell, William Robertson, John Robertson, and John Spens Munro.
The firm failed in 1818.
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Devine (1978) 'An Eighteenth-Century Business elite: Glasgow-West India Merchants, c. 1750- 1815 ', The Scottish Historical Review , 57:163, Part 1, pp. 40-67.
Stephen Mullen, 'The 鈥楪lasgow West India interest: integration, 锟糲ollaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World', PhD thesis, University of Glasgow (2015) p. 165-166.
We are grateful to Martin Sweet for his assistance in compiling this entry.
1801 - 25th Nov 1880
English clergyman, resident in Jamaica from 1827 but returning to England with his Jamaican-born wife and children six years later.
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.
