• Simon Taylor (23 December 1739 – 14 April 1813) was a Jamaican-born planter and politician. Taylor was the wealthiest planter on the island, according...
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  • Simon Taylor may refer to: Simon Taylor (MP) (died 1689), English politician and merchant Simon Taylor (sugar planter) (1739–1813), British sugar planter...
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    of "doctresses", such as Grace Donne (who nursed her lover, Simon Taylor (sugar planter)), Sarah Adams, Cubah Cornwallis, Mary Seacole, and Mrs Grant...
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    Sir John Taylor, 1st Baronet FRS (1745 – 8 May 1786) was a Jamaican-born planter who was a fellow of the Royal Society and was created a baronet of Lysson...
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  • Lyssons Estate was a sugar plantation located in Lyssons which was owned by Simon Taylor, who was once the wealthiest sugar planter in the Colony of Jamaica...
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    estate attorney, Simon Taylor (sugar planter), who went on to become the wealthiest sugar planter in Jamaica. As an attorney, Taylor was Arcedeckne's "most...
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    Taylor, it became the property of Scottish sugar planter Patrick Tailzour following his marriage to Martha Taylor, daughter of George Hanbury Taylor and...
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  • 3,000 acres in cattle pens. In addition to being a sugar planter, Bayly was also a successful sugar merchant. He also served as a planting attorney for...
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    failed one". Zachary Taylor was born on November 24, 1784, on a plantation in Orange County, Virginia, to a prominent family of planters of English ancestry...
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    year. In 1846 Jamaican planters, still reeling from the loss of slave labour, suffered a crushing blow when Britain passed the Sugar Duties Act, eliminating...
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  • Thomas Thistlewood (category 18th-century planters)
    white Jamaican society, especially in comparison to wealthy planters such as Simon Taylor, but at the time of his death he was still far wealthier than...
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    attorney and planter who freed his slaves and became an abolitionist.[citation needed] James Blair (c. 1788–1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations...
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  • Watson-Taylor was the son of Jamaican planters George Watson-Taylor, later a Member of Parliament, and his wife Anna, a daughter of Sir John Taylor, 1st...
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    Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore (category Jamaican planters)
    the next 17 years there, becoming a planter, slave-owner, and merchant who profited from his involvement in sugar plantations in the Caribbean. By 1753...
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    Republicans, and returning control of the South to the white Democrats and the planter class, alienating War Democrats in the North. Grant won the popular vote...
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  • Welsher Anon. (Lewis Carlton) The Union Jack (2nd Series) 500 The Sugar Planter's Secret Anon. (Andrew Murray) Count Ivor Carlac The Union Jack (2nd...
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    the family of the planter Sir John Taylor, 1st Baronet, in time adding the Taylor surname to his own, and becoming the richest planter on Jamaica. He bought...
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    [bare URL plain text file] "The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer". The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer. 9: 350. November 12, 1892. Retrieved...
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    Atlantic slave trade. The country and economy were run by a small European planter elite which continued on when the colonies of the territory were merged...
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    George Washington (category 18th-century American planters)
    managing a planter's estate, and the couple had a happy marriage. They moved to Mount Vernon, near Alexandria, where he lived as a planter of tobacco...
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    Haitian Revolution (category History of sugar)
    colonists, European-born Frenchmen monopolized administrative posts. The sugar planters, or grands blancs (literally, "big whites"), were chiefly minor aristocrats...
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    Press. Smith, Simon (1998). British Imperialism 1750–1970. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-3125806405. Retrieved 22 July 2009. Taylor, Alan (2002)...
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  • "Leisure Reader", Diane Riche inventor of "invisible Planter", Sandy Alfard inventor of Alexandria Body Sugar, Violet Mason inventor of Spool Organizer, Brian...
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  • killer. Harold Schechter (2012). The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Simon and Schuster. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-4391-3885-4. Retrieved 15 June 2016. Most...
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  • Mary Seacole, and Grace Donne, who nursed Jamaica's wealthiest planter, Simon Taylor. Cubah Cornwallis, Mrs Grant, Grace Donne and Sarah Adams used hygienic...
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    Atlantic slave trade (category History of sugar)
    African coast began to supply enslaved Africans to the sugar planters. While at first these planters had relied almost exclusively on the native Tupani for...
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  • Thomas Brown (loyalist) (category Planters from the British West Indies)
    plantation northeast of present-day Augusta, anticipating life as a gentleman planter. Brown soon found himself embroiled in the coming revolution. On 2 August...
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    Autumn Rachel Hore - A Beautiful Spy Bernice McFaddon - Sugar C.J. Tudor - The Burning Girls Simon Scarrow - Blackout Jane Harper - The Survivors Catriona...
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    Gilmore Simms, Aunt Phillis's Cabin by Mary Henderson Eastman, and The Planter's Northern Bride by Caroline Lee Hentz, with the last author having been...
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    directly or from deceased brothers. In 1831, he became an absentee cotton planter, sending enslaved people to clear plantation land that his father had left...
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