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Slavery in Jamaica, Records from a Family of Slave Owners, 1686–1860 - Volumes
Volumes
6 volumes in Slavery in Jamaica, Records from a Family of Slave Owners, 1686–1860
![View volume: Papers relating to the title and disposal of the estate, [1686]-1861.](https://d1sxy7l4fhu207.cloudfront.net/assets/img/thumbnails/71842a_tn.jpg)
Papers relating to the title and disposal of the estate, [1686]-1861
Correspondence and accounts relating to the administration of the estate at Amity Hall, parish of Vere, Jamaica, inherited by Munbee Goulburn from his father and uncle, and settled to the trusts of his marriage settlement in 1782. After Munbee's death, intestate, in 1794, the estate, apparently heavily encumbered, was put in Chancery, and was so administered until his son, Henry, attained his majority in 1805. During this period, the family's agents in Jamaica maintained a correspondence with Mrs. Susannah Goulburn, Munbee's widow. From 1802 Henry Goulburn took an increasing part in the correspondence, and from 1805, and throughout his life (a period which included both the abolition of the slave trade, and the emancipation of slaves in the British colonies) he was in continuous, if necessarily very distant, contact with his agents and factors. Read more →
Correspondence with agents and others, 1790-1854
The earliest surviving correspondence relating to the estate is contained in a letter book 1790-1811, which contains copies of Munbee Goulburn's correspondence with his attorney, 1790-1791, and his son Henry's responses to similar correspondence, 1804-1811. Correspondence bundles, containing letters from attorneys, overseers and other interested parties in Jamaica, and copy responses from the recipients, survive from 1793, and in good series from 1797. In the whole period 1797-1854, correspondence lacks only in the years 1818-1825. The original bundles (apparently, from surviving labels, created by Henry Goulburn) have been retained, and the contents arranged in order of recipient's use (i.e. for in-letters, by date of receipt, not of dispatch, an important factor in understanding the recipient's views and responses when mails were disrupted as they were, especially, in the early period by French attacks on British shipping). It should be noted that accounts, supplies lists and expenditure abstracts were generally separated by Goulburn from their covering letter, and filed in distinct bundles (whether upon receipt or later is unclear). Some however remained with the correspondence and have been left where they are found. As security, letters from Jamaica were frequently copied before being entrusted to the mail, and the copy sent with the subsequent letter endorsed on it. The brief list of letters gives date of original, and only mentions date of copy where this seems helpful. Read more →
Estate accounts, 1802-1855
Amity Hall Estate accounts with managing attorneys and attorneys in account with Henry Goulburn; monthly returns of expenditure on labour and journals of work done; expenses incurred; weekly paybills; along with related papers and notes by Henry Goulburn on the accounts. Read more →
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Correspondence with factors & sales accounts, [1794]-1856
Correspondence with factors acting on Henry Goulburn's behalf for the sale of sugar and rum in London and Liverpool and concerning supplies and equipment shipped out at the request of the attorneys of Amity Hall Estate. Also sales accounts with London and Liverpool factors, invoices and statements and some lists of supplies required. Read more →
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