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When using the notes on compensation claims there are numerous references to Parliamentary Papers and to T71/....
Parliamentary Papers refers to the list of compensation claims published in British Parliamentary Papers: Accounts of slave compensation claims... PP1837-38 (215) XLVIII.
T71 refers to the Office of Registry of Colonial Slavery and Slave Compensation Commission Records held in the at Kew, London. The records include, for example, T71/852-915: Registers of claims.
1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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.
