Samson Wood Sober

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Slave-owner in Barbados, heir in 1800 with his wife Jenett nee Walke of Thomas Walke (q.v.). He owned a sugar estate when he wrote his will in 1799 which has not yet been identified.

Will of Samson Wood Sober of St Peter Barbados [made in 1799] proved 2/04/1811. He left £1000 to his wife Jennett and £3000 to his daughter Judith at 18 and £3000 to his daughter Elizabeth Jennett. He left his sugar works [unnamed] on Barbados to his son Harrison Walke Sober.

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PROB 11/1521/324

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Transatlantic

Relationships (2)

Samson Wood Sober

Father → Son

Harrison Walke Sober

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Samson Wood Sober

Father → Daughter

Judith Trent (née Sober)

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People of Interest

Dorothy Diana Yates (née Smellie)

???? - 29^th Aug 1873

Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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.

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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Samson Wood Sober', Legacies of British Slavery database, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146654417 [accessed 4th April 2026].

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