UCL

Richard Harris of Berbice

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1813

Biography

Slave-owner in Berbice, dead by 1818, and probably the man below. Possibly the same man also as the dead owner in British Guiana no. 224.

  1. 'In December last, at Barbadoes, in his 49th year, Richard Harris, Esq., many years an eminent planter in the colony of Berbice.—He was on his way to England, his native country, from which he had been absent 25 years.'

Sources

  1. Lancaster Gazette 2 April 1814, from the painstaking transcriptions by Lisa Booth at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/Transcriptions/LisaB/DeathsTrans2015.pdf [accessed 12/05/2017].

Further Information

Absentee?

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 224
£902 7s 5d
Previous owner (not making a claim)
Details

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1818 [EA] - 1818 [LA] → Previous owner
No. 11 Corrantyne Coast [ British Guiana | Berbice ]