No Dates
Co-owner with David Bernard the elder of the Retreat estate in St James: both men appear to have died c. 1769. Nothing further has been traced of him: online genealogical material suggests that he might have been connected to Massachusetts.
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1767 [EA] - 1767 [LA] → Joint owner
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1769 [EA] - 1772 [LA] → Previous owner
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Business associates
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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:
'Joseph Eddy', Legacies of
British Slavery database, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146651131
[accessed 4th April 2026].
