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Harriott, William, ca. 1768-1822
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ca. 1768-1822
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HARRIOTT, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Harriott, St. Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, West Indies; b.; adm. 12 Jan 1784; left Dec 1785; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Jan 1786, did not matr.; migr. to Exeter Coll. Oxford, gent. commoner 4 Nov 1788 – 15 Jun 1789, matr. 3 Nov 1788, aged 20; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 May 1785; lived at Metz, France; m. [note will William Harriott, South Stoneham, Hampshire, proved PCC 16 Apr 1822] [perhaps m. at St. Martin’s in the Fields 5 Jul 1789 Ann Pither (IGI)]
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Judgement creditor on enslaved people in Jamaica. Owner of at least two Estates in Jamaica: Mexico Estate (213 enslaved people present in 1820) and Santa Cruz Park (151 enslaved people in 1821).
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Supplementary information drawn from UCL's Legacies of British Slave-ownership database. Entry URL:https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146638377
Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.