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RepositorySpecial Collections Archives (GB 0029)
Ref NoEUL MS 44/add. 1/4/d
Date1783-1808
LevelSeries
Extent5 items
TitleInventories and valuations
Creator NameGale; family; plantation owners
Morant; family; Jamaican plantation owners
DescriptionContent Advice: This file includes items relating to enslavement, as well as offensive terms or terms that have changed meaning over time. In some cases these terms are included in our catalogue descriptions in order to provide information about the content and nature of the source.

1 Inventory of enslaved people and livestock on Mount Hindmost Plantation and St Jago Penn, inventorised and appraised by Daniel McGilchrist. Close Copy Number 2, dated 25 October 1783.

2 Document entitled 'A List and Valuation of Negroes on Mounthindmost Esate this fourth day of July 1808', including details of the name, age, 'occupation', 'condition' and valuations of each enslaved person on the Estate, dated 04 July 1808.

3 Document entitled 'Valuation of Negroes, Stock etc. at Mount Hindmost 4 July 1808', including a summary of general valuations for 212 enslaved people, 69 steers, 42 mules, one cow, seven speyed heifers, one bull calf, plantation stores, waggons, wains and bricks. Dated 4 July 1808.

4 Document entitled 'An Inventory of Sundries on Mount hindmost Estate and Valuation of the same this fourth day of July one thousand eight hundred and eight', including sections on the 'Medicine Room', 'Store under Overseers House', 'Curing House', 'Still House', 'Boiling House', 'Place near the Smith Shop', Carpenters Shop and Tools', 'Blacksmith Shop', Coopers Shop', 'Corn House', 'Mill House', 'Overseers House', 'Overseers Sleeping Room' 'Piazza room', 'Bookkeepers Room' (No.1 and No.2), 'Earthenware', Cook room', Wash house', 'Dwelling house', 'Room' (No. 2, No.3 and No.4), 'Hall', 'Cook room' and 'Small Stock', dated 04 July 1808 Also includes an inventory and valuation of livestock and household furniture on St Jago Penn and Paisley Penn, the property of the late Lady Sheridan, dated 05 August 1808.

5 Evaluation report entitled 'Statement of Facts Relative to the condition and valuation of certain slaves, stock and utensils on the Mount Hindmost Plantation, Paisley Penn and St Jago Penn. For the Information of Edward Gale Morant Gale Esq[ui]r[e] and Miss Fearon the Devisee of Lady Sheridan', compiled by John Williams and William Russell [c 1808].
FormatManuscript
LanguageEnglish
AccessStatusOpen
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