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Colin Graham Simpson

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Biography

  1. Colin Graham Simpson registered ownership of three enslaved people in St Thomas-in-the-Vale, Jamaica, in 1817.

  2. He was overseer at Palm Estate in St Thomas-in-the-Vale in the early 1820s when Benjamin McMahon was a book-keeper. McMahon details a power struggle between Simpson and Quamin, the head boiler on the estate and describes extremely harsh punishments meted out by Simpson: "He was mean and miserly in his habits, not violent in his temper, but terribly vindictive; if once he took a dislike, he never stopped till he destroyed his victim, if he were able."


Sources

1/ T71/25 627.

  1. Benjamin McMahon, Jamaica Plantership: Eighteen Years Employed in the Planting Line in that Island (1839) p. 38.

We are grateful to Siddharth Singh Ahlawat for his assistance with compiling this entry.

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
1823 [EA] - → Overseer
Palm Estate [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]