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Name in compensation records
William Leith M'Cook
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£627 0s 1d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
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Trustee → Testator
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William Leith McCook was identified in a separate codicil to the will of David Ingram as one of the trustees and executors of Ingram's main Jamaican...
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2026
CITING THIS RECORD:
'William Leith McCook', Legacies of
British Slavery database, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/12078
[accessed 5th April 2026].
