Lieutenant (on half pay), plantation owner on Antigua.
Owned Woodley Park, Kircudbrightshire
Epitaph from Robert Burns: "So vile was poor Wat, such a miscreant slave. That the worms even damn'd him when laid in his grave.'In his skull there's a famine!' a starved reptile cries;'And his heart, it is poison!' another replies."
Legacies of British Slavery:
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