Wright Family

JG: Jamaica Gazette.
LDS:
Ch:
Booth:      Vere 1707-1773
Burton:     St Elizabeth 1707-1774
            Clarendon: to 1800
            Vere 1696-1800
            Westmoreland: to 1800
            Kingston
            St Catherine ch to 1784
            St Andrew
            St Dorothy

Cohen:      St E 1790-1815
Earl: St E 1830-1845
Forbes:     St E to 1800 - index only no Margaret.
            Westmoreland 1696 to 1800 - index only no Margaret.
Hayles:     Clarendon to 1750 - nil sig.
            St Cats

Vere

St Andrew

            St Dorothy
Maitland: St E to 1864
            Manchester to 1844 - index only
Penford:    St E to 1800, nil sig
            Westmoreland to 1800, nil sig
Roberts:    St E 1788-1821
            Vere 1714-1803
Sherman:    St E 1762-1854
Sinclair:   St E to 1813
            Manchester 1813-1842 (index done, copied to 1826)
            St C nil to 1800
            Clarendon
Wint:       St E 1800-1820
            Vere 1770-1800
Wright:     Clarendon 1706-1750
            Kingston to 1781 (Index done, some copied)
            St Cat 1693-1800
            St E 1707-1826
            Vere to 1800
            Westmoreland to 1805
            St John to 1800.

Marriages
Burton:     Westmoreland Mar to 1800.
Burton:     Vere Mar 1696-1800
Maitland:   St E to 1855
Wright:     Clarendon Mar to 1800 (index done, but not all copied)
Wright:     Kingston to 1781 (Index done, some copied)
Wright:    St Catherine Mar 1680-1750
Wright:     St E to abt 1840
Wright:     Vere Mar 1696-1800

Burials
Booth:      Vere early to 1824
Burton:     St Catherine Bur to 1776.
Forbes:     St E Bur: to 1800.
            Westmoreland ditto
Maitland:   St E to 1856
Wint: St Catherine to 1776
Wright:     Clarendon   Bur to 1800
            St Catherine Bur to 1776
            Vere 1765-1806 at least
            Westmoreland 1757-1824
Wrights:    St E Bur to 1821.
Penford:    St E Bur: to 1800.
            Westmoreland ditto

The Parish Records seem to be reasonably good on baptisms of whites. Early records probably did not cover baptisms done away from the church, later records have lists of individuals baptised on the properties.
The issue of mixed race couples are not as well recorded, initially the child is usually recorded as the base born child of the mother, usually with no reference to the father, except that the child is often baptised with what was presumably the father’s surname. The use of the phrase “reputed son/dau of” appears in the latter half of the 18thC.
Burials records are limited, probably because the dead were buried very quickly for obvious reasons in a hot climate, and so a priest was not involved. In St Elizabeth at least, the burial records state burials of white persons. This might explain why there is no record of Rebecca Wright or Patty Penford being buried in Black River: Rebecca Wright was the memorial tomb stone in spite of having died in Bristol – her remains must have been transported back to Jamaica for interment.

WRIGHTS & SINCLAIRS of JAMAICA

The Jamaica Maitlands have 2 Wright connections, and Sinclair, Hayle & Burtons. Francis (1) Maitland's mother, Rebecca Dunston Wright was possibly the daughter of Dunston Wright (although her baptism does not name a father); his wife, Ann, was the daughter of Andrew Wright and Ruth Sinclair (the daughter of John Hayle Sinclair and Judith Burton).
The Wrights & Sinclairs of St Elizabeth, Westmoreland and Vere parishes in Jamaica were an extensive family and appear in the parish records of birth, marriages and deaths from the beginning of the records (about 1710). The entries in the early days are probably not complete: baptisms are best recorded, but the couples often did not marry (particularly where the woman was of mixed race) and burials were carried out very quickly, more often than not without a priest present.
They were also connected with the Roberts, Cohen, Booth, Brooks, and other families.

Burton Summary

Our direct Burton ancestor was Judith Burton, partner of John Hayle Sinclair. It is not clear who she was, but she was very probably a grand daughter of Francis (died 1690) & Judith (died 1712) Burton. A fuller explanation is under Judith Burton’s entry below.

A Peter Burton or Burten left a will in 1669. A Peter Burton was also listed as owning 18 acres in St Andrew in 1670 (St Catherine in Sketch Pedigrees of Jamaica 1670); this does not tie in with the area mentioned in the will of 1669. Neither of these were probably connected with our family. A Capt Richard Bourden owned 2250 acres in St Catherine in 1670.
Our Burton family start with Francis Burton who was granted 874 acres in St John’s on the Town River (Rio Cobre) in 1682. Over the next few years Francis Burton acquired several more plots of land totalling about 1600 acres. One of these was a large sugar estate in St Thomas in the Vale called Stoneland, acquired by a series of mortgage transactions. Francis left his estate between his three sons, Nicholas, Benjamin and John, in his will of 1690, with bequests to his wife Judith and daughter. In later life, as a widow, Judith bought land in Spanish Town, presumably a town house for her old age.
There are deeds relating to a Richard Burton, bricklayer in Kingston 1694.
Judith’s will of 1712 also made bequests to her children and grand-children. There is no indication from where the Burtons originated. Subsequent wills of the family give a good description of the family.

Hayle Summary

The Hayles were planters in Clarendon with plantations on the Vere/Clarendon border and further north up the Rio Minho in Clarendon. An estate plan has been constructed from the 1700 land grants of the holdings north of modern day May Pen of John Hayle & his son John junior. The early holdings on the River Minho (also called Rio Minho & Dry River) were probably indigo production; they did not seem to be particularly large. The later holdings further north were in what was described as mountain land, and were probably more oriented to livestock and indigo – John Hayle jnr’s inventory contained indigo products and cotton and a deed in 1709 between his cousins Richard & Thomas refers to an Indigo works, probably on the early land on the Vere/Clarendon border.
In the mid-late 17thC, indigo was a rare and very valuable dye (hence the royal purple etc): it was found to grow well in the Americas, and was the first export crop grown in Jamaica. Early settlers often started by working small plots of a few acres, expanding as they went on. Tax changes pushed its production to the American mainland colonies about the turn of 1700’s. It is probable that by the mid 1715’s, indigo production had ceased and the owners of land unsuited to sugar reverted to being stock farmers with pimento, log wood and other local crops.

Both cotton and indigo were labour intensive crops. 20 acres of indigo needing 17 negroes to work it. John jnr was the only one who showed these crops in his inventory, later ones seem only to have livestock.

Deeds:
There seem to have been several families with similar names: Hayle, Hales & Hals. Spelling seems to be consistent through the indexes, so I have concentrated on “Hayle”.

Not to be confused with Thomas Hals and descendants, one of the original group when the British invaded Jamaica in 1655. He and his descendants appear regularly in the Deed indices. Letters Patent were also seen. Many properties with similar names would have belonged to Thomas Halse and his descendants. Includes “Hales Hall”, now on the southern outskirts of Mandeville.

Early patents indicate that there was a group of 3 Hayles: John, Thomas & Richard. The use of the spelling HaYle seems to have been consistent through all the documents, so I have concentrated on those with that spelling. It may be assumed that they were brothers; the only combination of brothers with this spelling were born in St Albans.

John Hayle bought 35 acres from William Lord in 1671 on the Dry River (River

Minho). This was probably the land referred to in the 1673 patent as belonging to John & Richard Hayle.

The three brothers were granted three plots of land of 58, 42 & 110 acres in 1673 on either side of the River Minho; the 1747 Bellini & 1755 map show them just south of the (later) border between Vere & Clarendon.

The 42 acre plot went to the children of Richard, Richard, George & Mary (ref deed 1693) via their guardian, Richard Cargill of Vere: he discharged John Hayle, then of Vere, from any liability for the goods & chattels of the children, maybe when they reached majority.

The 110 acre plot was split early on, 50 acres being sold by Richard & John to Thomas Parry in 1676, 60 acres going to Thomas. The latter plot was left to Thomas’s 3 sons, Richard Josiah & Thomas: this was formally passed to them by deed from uncle John in 1700.

Thomas snr bought 70 acres of land in 1680 near Kittle Spring (shown on early maps in northern Vere, just south of the border with Clarendon) bounding on Richard & John Hayle’s land, which he left to his sons. In 1711, the surviving sons of Thomas snr, Thomas & Richard, agreed to split the two plots equally; Richard then sold his half, leaving Thomas jnr with his plot including the indigo works. The details of this land transaction are difficult to understand and need further research (2011). Thomas jnr seems to have owned 520 acres in St Andrew, of which he and his wife Elizabeth sell half in 1723, before he died in 1725. Thomas jnr’s wife, Elizabeth lived on in Kingston until after 1743. William Hayle, probably their son, was described as a bricklayer in a number of deeds, but was evidently a substantial contractor and was paid about £1800 for supplying masons and bricklayers on fort construction in 1753/4.

John Hayle senior, our direct ancestor, and his son, John junior, were later granted land in several adjoining plots around 1700 totalling 1059 acres; the southern properties going to John snr’s nephews. The Hayle property would seem to be on the land north west of May Pen, probably on the road to Pleasant Valley, probably south of or at Dawkins Smokey Hole as indicated on “Maplandia” & Google Earth. John senior bought about 50 acres from Dr James Smith in 1699: this land went to his son Nevil. Dr James Smith is referred to as John snr’s son-in-law, and has a wife Elizabeth in the 1699 deed, but there is no mention of Elizabeth Hayle in John snr’s will, he was probably in fact the brother of John jnr’s wife.
John snr’s will left the Smokey Hole property to John jnr’s son Thomas, who in the 1740’s sold 100 acres to John Shickel. A property called Yarmouth in Vere (on the Hilliard River, between the Rivers Milk & Minho) was left by John Hayle snr to his son Nevil. It appears that Thomas sold 300 acres, probably the rest of the property from his grandfather, to his cousin Samuel Nevil in 1741. This 300 acres was inherited by Samuel Nevil’s son Nevil, via Grace Bowman as executor.
The Yarmouth land may have been that bought in 2 lots from John Harris and James Smith in 1699.

John jnr seems to have been of some substance himself, showing assets in his inventory appropriate to the 400 or so acres he probably held. As he died before his father, he was not mentioned in senior’s will, although his children were. John jnr seems to have had a mortgage on 400 acres from one Francis Allen in 1712, probably his main holding at Smokey Hole. There is little data (6/2011) on where John jnr’s property went to, but the later deeds have yet to be read. One of his grandsons, Edward (son of Samuel) still owned land in 1744 as a minor. John jnr had at least 9 children and many grand children.

100 acres of land in Smoakey Hole sold by George Manning to John Wright in 1750, part of John Hayle patent.

John & Priscilla had, from their wills, at least 5 children; John junior was probably the eldest but having died early the major beneficiary of John Snr’s will was Nevil. The inventories of both John Senior & junior show them to have had 71 slaves at their death. Neither the wills nor the inventories give direct details of the land owned. However, sugar estates seemed to have about 1 slave for 8 acres. This ties in with the known size of the land granted to each of them.

The inventories of John father & son are typical of the era, but show somewhat different lives. John snr had a lot more furniture in his inventory, probably reflecting a larger, more prosperous home; he had some livestock, but there is no mention of other agricultural produce while John jnr produced Indigo as well as livestock. John jnr had a sizable debt owed to him as an asset in his inventory, but no deed has been found to account for this.

Our Hayle ancestor was Priscilla Hayle, wife of John Sinclair. She would have been a grand daughter of John Hayle, by either John’s eldest son, John (mentioned in John Hayle senior’s will – no age indication), or his son Nevil (from baptism record, b 1707). John jnr’s daughter Priscilla was alive in 1714, the date of John senior’s will. At the moment, there is no way of telling which she was.

The family made many land transactions during the early part of the 18thC.

1754 owners:
Hayle, Ann, Clarendon 151
Hayle, Richard deceased, Clarendon 354

Descendants of William Pusey Hayle
1. William Pusey Hayle was born Abt. 1775. He married Frances Bryan Fearon December 26, 1800 in Clarendon (Source: B0058 Clarendon Parish Register I, 1666-1837, p 239.). She was born Abt. 1775.

More About William Pusey Hayle:
Addressed as: Esquire
Residence: 1800, Vere
More About Frances Bryan Fearon:
Residence: 1800, Clarendon
More About William Hayle and Frances Fearon:
Status of bride/groom: Spinster
1811: Hayle, William P., Fearon's Place 135/ 34, Clarendon (Fearons place about 1100 acres)
1811: Shickle, John Hayle, Savoy, Liectford and Pen 381/ 382 Clarendon

This probably refers to Hayles:
Notes on Clarendon (http://www.aboutjamaica.com.jm/clarendon.htm)
Hay’s Savannah (now spelt “Hayes”) was named after John Hays, an early English settler. There is also Hay’s Corn piece. Both are part of the New Yarmouth Sugar Estate. The village of Hayes, built on the savannah, is about seven miles south of May Pen. (this may be a distortion of Hayle(s)).
Sheckles, in the parish of Clarendon, is named after John S. Sheckles, Member of the Assembly, Custos of Clarendon, and Brigadier-General of the Militia. A resident in the island for 55 years, he died in 1782.
Smokey Hole, in the parish of Clarendon, was first known as “Dawkins Smokey Hole”, the latter name partially deriving from that of a previous owner of the area, Colonel Dawkins. Spaldings is a place-name from Lincolnshire, England.

Sinclair Summary

A search of the internet for Sinclair/Caithness/Jamaica gave no relevant finds, but showed that there were Sinclairs either migrating to the Colonies, including Jamaica or being transported there.

Our Sinclair ancestors begin with John Sinclair who died in 1740, and was an emigrant from Caithness in NE Scotland, probably from Thurso (“last resort” beneficiary of his will was Thurso Parish). He had a number of siblings still in Thurso as listed in his will. A John Sinclair, gent, first appears in 1724, when he was of St Catherine. He made a number of deeded transactions over the succeeding years, including a rental arrangement for several hundred acres of land which seemed to be getting him in trouble in the late 1730’s.

His son, John Hayle Sinclair, was the father of Ruth Sinclair, mother-in-law of Francis Maitland. John Hayle Sinclair seems from the tone of his will to have fallen out with his family, either the Hayles, or more probably with his uncle Peter.

Wright Summary

The relationship of the Wrights of St Elizabeth and Vere Parishes in Jamaica is difficult to establish with any great confidence. Those relating to the Maitland direct line are summarised, with fuller details later in this paper:
Information has been gleaned from parish records, the Jamaica Almanacs, the 1804 maps and Vere Langford Oliver's work (see below). Property information can be found under the Jamaica General chapter.

Our Wright family probably started in Vere with Andrew Wright, d 1712, granted land in 1703, then his son William. William & Elizabeth had Francis Wright, b 1715 (possibly Andrew's father) and his brother Dunston, b 1713.

Our lines of Rebecca Wright and Andrew Wright (both born mid 18thC) probably came from this family. Rebecca and Andrew were known to each other: Rebecca made Andrew an executor of her will. They could have been 1st cousins (on the male, but maybe not the female, line) but records are not complete enough to establish any relationship. It is notable that Rebecca Wright was baptised Rebecca Dunston Wright in 1752; Andrew Wright's elder brother was baptised John Dunstone Wright in 1750 (and died soon after). This is a strong indication that they were related in some way. Rebecca named her first born son Francis (her second son Richard might have been after John M's father). Andrew's father was Francis, and may be his grandfather (2 Francis Wrights died about 1760 in Vere). One of Andrew's daughters was also called Rebecca.

There was also a Bazill Wright granted land in St Elizabeth in about 1675 - he may have been of the same family; in 2008, Patents and Plats have only been checked for St Elizabeth. What, if any, was the relationship between the slightly later Wrights of Vere, and Bazill is not apparent in 3/2008.

The family living at Stretton Hall in the East of Vere were probably the earliest in Vere.

Dunston Family:
St Catherines: John Dunston JP 1751.
John Dunston probably had wife Frances who later married Fortunatus Dwarris of Kingston, Jamaica, doctor of phy. Will dated 17 June 1789.

SUMMARY of INDIVIDUALS RELATED to MAITLANDS:

ANN WRIGHT

Summary:

The wife of Francis (1) Maitland and daughter of Andrew Wright and Ruth Sinclair (see below), was born in 1788 in St Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, probably at Mitcham Pen in the East of the Parish.

ANDREW WRIGHT:

General:

Andrew Wright, the father of Ann Wright, was a white(?) Jamaican, born in St Catherine in 1752, son of Francis & Ann Mary Wright and died in Mitcham, Surrey, England 24/2/1806.

He was of a family of substantial planters in the South and South West of Jamaica.
He was the father of Ann & Rebecca Wright by Ruth Sinclair.

RUTH SINCLAIR

Summary

Ruth Sinclair was the mother of Ann Wright, by Andrew Wright. The parish record shows her being born about 1764 and describes her as a "mestu" (quadroon), the daughter of Judith Burton, a mulatto; her father was John Hayle Sinclair according to his will. She died about 1799, her will being proved in July of that year.
She had three daughters by Andrew Wright (Ann, Mary & Rebecca, Mary dying between 1799 and 1806). Her will implies that she had two further daughters by one John Read, who was mentioned in her will.
Her father was the son of a planter and the grandson of a 1st generation planter from Caithness. Her grandfather had siblings still in Scotland when he died about 1740.

REBECCA DUNSTON WRIGHT

The mother of Francis Maitland by John Maitland

DETAILS of INDIVIDUALS RELATED to MAITLANDS:

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FRANCIS MAITLAND

AM07/01

Married:

ANN WRIGHT:

AM07/02

Summary:

The wife of Francis (1) Maitland and daughter of Andrew Wright and Ruth Sinclair (see below), was born in 1788(PR) in St Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, probably at Mitcham Pen in the East of the Parish. Her father was Mitcham's owner in 1793 when he was advertising for a runaway slave. She and her sister, who later married George Roberts of Jamaica, were taken to England with her father and step-mother, Elizabeth Wint. Their father imposed a curious condition to their inheritance that his daughters should marry before returning to Jamaica on pain of losing their inheritance. Hence their marriages in England! She seems to have inherited Mitcham pen and her surviving sister, Rebecca, Silver Grove; the properties are contiguous and were operated together between about 1810 and 1840.
She returned to Jamaica after the birth of her first daughter, ch 1807 in Camberwell. Her next 7 children were baptised in Jamaica. She and Francis returned to England where he died in 1824. After that event, her movements are unknown, but it is likely that she at least visited Jamaica again, having become the owner of Giddy Hall, before dying in London in 1833. It may be significant that some of her sister's, Rebecca Roberts, children were baptised around Camberwell and Kennington, where Ann's last child was baptised in 1825, after Francis' death.

Details:

MT: b. 8/2/1788 m.29/7/1806 d.23/10/1833 (ref will: in London).
MB: departed this life October 23rd 1833 aged 45 years at Giddy Hall. (not correct from will).
(1) St Elizabeth PR: Born: Feb 1788, ch 18/12/1789, St Elizabeth
Parents: reputed dau of Mr. Andrew Wright by Ruth Sinclair, a free
Mestu, child reputed white.
"Residing in Chester Place, St Mary Lambeth" in her will of 1834, but no record of her burial in St Mary at Lambeth PR.
Chester Place not found in "Sewer Rates" Records for Lambeth 1834.

This seems the most likely wife of Francis Maitland.
a) their first born son was called Andrew Wright, their first born, a daughter being Frances Ann.
b) the baptismal entry for sons George, Alexander and Septimus refers to Francis as being a person of colour, but his wife as being reputed white (this implies some negro ancestry).
c) geographically more likely: why were they married in London? Probably Andrew Wright's will specifying that Ann must be married before returning to Jamaica. The record at St Clement Danes almost certainly refers to them.
d) the baptism of 6 "slaves belonging to the estate of Andrew Wright" at Giddy Hall when Francis's slaves were baptised (12/4/1814).
e) Andrew Wright was the proprietor of Mitcham pen, which came into the Maitland family. This Ann Wright is mentioned in Andrew's will.
f) Ann's sister, Rebecca, married George Roberts, co-owner with Francis of slaves at Mitcham & Silver Grove.

Will found by Jackie Ranstone:
Ann Maitland, Supreme Court Wills 114/172 entered 22/5/1834. "Ann Maitland of parish of St Elizabeth, county of Cornwall, but at present residing in Chester Place in the parish of St Mary Lambeth in the County of Surrey in the Kingdom of Great Britain, widow, I give and bequeath unto Wm. Wilson of London, Merchant and John Salmon of the parish of St Elizabeth, esq. all that my Plantation and Estate called Giddy Hall situated in St Elizabeth with slaves, cattle and stock, Plantation utensils and effects ... in Trust for all and every or such one or more of my sons Andrew Wright, John, Francis, George, Alexander, Septimus and Octavius and daughter Emma Rebecca living at my decease..."
Three pages follow about trustees duties etc.
A codicil dated 10 May 1826, (date as report, but prob of original will: Emma married 1832) London says:
" I revoke ... my appointment in said will of Wm Wilson of London as Executor and in his place appoint my son-in-law Samuel Sherman of the parish of St Elizabeth, planter. As soon as convenient after my decease ... - Giddy Hall and slaves cattle etc and other estate valued and ??? to be paid to my daughter Emma Rebecca Sherman or to her heirs one eighth part or equal moiety."

inventory found in Jamaica Archives totalling £6882, of which £3550 was in slaves. Copy Held.

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JOHN MAITLAND

AM08/01

The author of this work first made the assumption that John Maitland, the father of Rebecca Wright's children was the son of Frederick Lewis Maitland by Mary Arnot, in spite of a significant age difference: there was no evidence of there being any other John Maitland being born in the area at the time. The only other one about then was a Captain John Maitland with a seaman killed in a shipwreck somewhat earlier (1775). In 2005, John Maitland's will appeared, with his mother as a legatee, unfortunately by the name of Sarah! In 2008 it was established that our John Maitland was indeed a mariner who settled in St Elizabeth Parish.

REBECCA DUNSTON WRIGHT

AM08/02

Born^PR: St Elizabeth, May 1749, St Elizabeth PR.
Ch^PR: 12/11/1752, St Elizabeth
Parent: Patty Penford, mulatto & possibly, Dunston Wright.
Died: 1805, Black River, St Elizabeth (ref gravestone & will).

Will & Inventory held.

Summary:

The mother of Francis (1) Maitland, Rebecca Dunston Wright was born in 1749 of Patty (later called Patty Penford), a freed mulatto slave belonging to Roderick Rose, possibly by Dunston Wright. Patty was a woman of substance in her own right, as described in their privilege act in 1784. Rebecca had a (half) sister by Patty, Margaret Forbes. Margaret was the partner of Hyem Cohen, a rich man who died about 1804, leaving a substantial real and personal estate, which included a large portfolio of debtors. According to Rebecca's inventory, he owed her about £680.

Rebecca had real estate in Westmoreland and St Elizabeth in addition to a significant personal estate by the time of her death in 1805 which she left to Francis. The Westmoreland property was called The Cove (see below), was at Scott's Cove on the Westmoreland & St Elizabeth boundary; according to her will, it was 214 acres. Francis Maitland was "of Westmoreland" when he bought Giddy Hall, so he may still have been resident there. Some of her St Elizabeth property looked to have been rental property in and around Black River (probably at least 5 dwellings), but her will described her as of Black River when she died in Bristol and mentioned her dwelling house on Black River Bay, so some of it must have been for her own use. This latter may well have been the property bought by John Maitland in 1784. It was just west of the town centre, on the shore. The dimensions are those of a town property: there still some handsome properties along the road west out of town - let's hope it was one of these!

There is no indication that she had any other partner after John Maitland's death in 1787. She probably lived off the property left by him or she may have had property left by her mother who did not die until 1795. The name Pentford appears on the 1804 map on the west side of Scott's Cove. She must have been close to the Cohen family, who were substantial land holders and bankers in the area on the 1804 map. At some stage she and presumably Francis sailed to England as she died there in the winter of 1804/5; he was married there July 1806.

She must have been of some status to judge by her gravestone in Black river churchyard and the fact that she was buried there in spite of having died in Bristol, England (according to her will). Her inventory totalled £8328, £7000 of which was in the value of her 80 slaves. It shows her as having 5 tenants owing house rent; the household utensils values indicate that The Cove was a less equipped property than her other residence and so was not her principal abode.

She would have been on good terms with Andrew Wright, father of her future daughter-in-law, as he (or at least an Andrew Wright) was an executor of her estate. He in fact died shortly after her, also in England. It may be assumed that she was on close terms with Hyem Cohen of Black River and surrounds, her brother-in-law (except that nobody was married!)

The property referred to in her will as The Cove was Cove Pen, on the Westmoreland side of Scott’s Cove, listed in later Almanack in the Bluefields area. It was originally purchased by her mother, Patty.

John Maitland is recorded as buying property in Westmoreland in the 1780's.

Her Cohen nephews and nieces, (Alexander & Henry, Catherine & Caroline) to whom she made bequests were the children of her sister, Margaret Forbes by Hyem Cohen of Black River (ref HC will).

Rebecca had a sister, Margaret Forbes who had a daughter Elizabeth Littlehales, and 4 children by Hyem Cohem.

Partner: John Maitland
Issue:
1/1. Francis Maitland, ch. 25/2/1784,

Vol 1, folio 49 (1720-1800):
1784 May 23: Francis Maitland baptised, reputed son of John Maitland by Rebecca Wright. Born 25 feb 1784. (Listed under Non White).

1/2. Richard Maitland, ch. 4/8/1786. (StE PR)

Vol 1, folio 54:
1788: Richard Maitland baptised, reputed son of John Maitland by Rebecca Wright. Born 4 August 1786.
Presumed died between 1789 and 1806 – mentioned in grandmother Patty Penford’s will but not in mother’s

Born:
St E PR has following entry
Rebecca Dunston Wright, daughter of Patty, a mulatto, lately a slave belonging to Mr. Roderick Rose, three years old last May and baptised Nov 12 1752. Thus born 5/1749. (St E V1F8)
(Patty later shown to be Patty Penford)

Reference in Hyem Cohen's Will to Patty Penford as mother of Rebecca Wright - her will not found in Jamaica Indexes.

A Dunston Wright was born 6/12/1713 of parents: William & Elizabeth Wright, Vere (PR). Was this her father??
No mention of "Polly" or "Patty" Rose on St Elizabeth PR.
1754: Rose, Matthew, St. Elizabeth 126
Rose, John, St. Elizabeth 1105

Died:

MI of Jamaica: Gravestone @ Black River church (#1658):
(Re)becca Wright, 29/?/1805, aged 56. (seen by A Maitland in April 1998, less legible, even less so in 12/2006).
Her will was dated 14/11/1804, and proved in Canterbury in 28/6/1805. From the gravestone, it may be assumed that she died early in 1805.

This was our Rebecca, her will confirms this is the correct burial. No burial entry found in PR.

Privilege Bill:
PRO CO 139/39 (Jamaican House of Assembly minutes)
Courtesy of Dan Livesay Jan 2008[i] (see notes).

23 December 1784: “…Patty Penford of the parish of Saint Elizabeth a free Mulatto woman and Rebecca Wright and Margaret Forbes her Daughters and Francis Maitland the Son of the said Rebecca Wright and Elizabeth Littlehales the Daughter of the said Margaret Forbes to the same rights…”

They are listed as having been baptized, Christian, and having received communion. Patty is possessed of “real and personal Estate in this Island to a very Considerable value which she intends to bestow on the said Rebecca Wright and Margaret Forbes and their Children."

Dunston Wright

See below, son of William Wright

Leah Wright & Cohen Connection

Possible sister Leah born about 1748.
Parish records show Leah Wright baptised 7/7/1791, a free negro aged about 43.
2 sons recorded, reputed sons of David Cohen
Hyman Cohen, b 25/12/1788, ch 1791, St Elizabeth.
David Cohen, b 12/12/1792, ch 14/4/1793, St Elizabeth.
who became a big property owner.
See end of this section for Cohens.
A Leah Wright bur 4/12/1812, at churchyard, free negro, aged 47.
A slave, Maria Wright bapt 8/6/1794, belonging to Rebecca Wright St E (she is mentioned in Rebecca's will).

Her Will
(PCC 1805 484 Nelson Prob 11 1428 f485) Dated 14/11/1804, proved 28/6/1805. Full Will Text
"Late of Black River .. but now of Bristol ...
left some specified slaves to nephews Alexander & Henry & nieces Catherine & Caroline Cohen ... (see Cohen family later in this file).
left the remainder to son Francis Maitland: land of about 214 acres in Westmoreland named "The Cove" (Difficult to read, but confirmed by the will inventory), Dwelling house on land adjoining Lowerworks Estate on or near the Black River called "the Ground" (again best guess), a tenement or property lying behind the Church on Black River Bay, (Lowerworks just north of Black River town centre)
tenements in or near the Logwoods on Black River Bay
The remainder of his slaves.
The remainder of her estate.
Executors Andrew Wright, Francis Maitland both of Jamaica, and Christopher Henbury of Bristol and Thomas Hogg of Jamaica.
A study of the 1804 map of Jamaica shows no suitable property entries for her, either in Westmoreland or St Elizabeth.

Jamaica inventory Date 7 September 1805, Ent 20 September 1805.

A possible nephew:
Henry Cohen was born 1796, and died December 1846, Age: 50 years
Burial: December 17, 1846, New burial ground, Black River, St. Elizabeth
Occupation: 1846, Domestic
Residence: 1846, Black River, St. Elizabeth

The Cove
A property called Cove listed to Letellier, Ann, Cove, 13/2 in 1817 Almanack. 1818, 11 slaves and 2 stock. 11 in 1831.
1829 Cove Pen listed to Thomas Tate, 36 slaves, he also owned Old Shafston & Rotherwood, both significant pens. in 1831, Cove listed as 33 slaves.
In 1891 & 1910, a property called Cove listed to William Hogg, a pen post office Blue Fields. Was this the same family as Thomas Hogg, one of Rebecca Wright's executors.

ANDREW WRIGHT - 1752

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Born^PR: 18/2/1752, ch 6/3/1752, St Catherine (PR)
Parents: Francis & Ann Mary Wright.
Partner: Ruth Sinclair, mulatto, in Jamaica.
Also Married: Elizabeth Mary (Pusey) Wint, 28/12/1790, Clarendon, she a widow (PR).
Died^VLO: 24/2/1806, Mitcham, Surrey, England, "Andrew Wright esq aged 54 years late of the Parish of St Elizabeth & Mitcham Penn in the Island of Jamaica." (ref PR from VLO).

Will & Inventory held.

General:

Andrew Wright, the father of Ann Wright, was Jamaican born in 1752, probably white, and died in Mitcham, Surrey, England 24/2/1806.
He acquired and probably developed the pens (cattle farms) of Mitcham (which he said he named after the town in Surrey, although in fact it had the same name when owned by Earl Balcarres in 1763) & Silver Grove, in the latter part of the 18thC. His property in Vere, the 200 acre estate of Single Rock, near Calabash Bay was probably a family property (not to be confused with Calabash Bay, St Elizabeth, both of which bays are on the 1804 map, but with A Wright shown on the 1804 in Vere). From the wording of his will, it would appear that Mitcham was his principal residence in Jamaica. His inventory shows it to have been well furnished by the standards of the area and time.

His estate also had an overseer's house and another property called Ramsgate in his inventory.

He had a mulatto partner, Ruth Sinclair, by whom he had 4 daughters, only 2 of whom probably survived to adulthood. In 1790 he married Elizabeth Mary Pusey, born about 1743 and daughter of Benjamin Pusey of Cherry Hill and Cherry Garden Estate in the Parish of St Dorothy, Jamaica; she was the widow of Samuel Wint, of Spanish Town, Jamaica. She was buried at Brompton Church, London, 6/8/1821 (tablet in Nave) aged 78. She had a son John Pusey Wint, by her first husband. Benjamin Pusey was a Member of Assembly for St Dorothy’s in 1751 (JFS, Almanack 1751). A William Pusey was a member of Assembly in 1776/82 for Vere; he was also a magistrate, in 1782, a Col in the Midlands division of the Militia.

He appeared in print in 1793 3 times, as a vestreyman for St Elizabeth, as the owner of a horse racing at Lacovia, and as the owner of a slave who "ran" that year - history does not relate any subsequent recapture!

He came to England (probably after November 1804, re Rebecca Wright's will) with his daughters by Ruth, his wife was probably still in Jamaica at the time of his will. His inventory showed him with substantial personal estate of £21557, about £13700 of which was the value of his slaves and £5700 livestock (77 cattle and 137 horses and mules).

He left Single Rock, some named slaves (also specified in his inventory) and £5000 to John Pusey Wint, his stepson. Most of the remainder he left to his daughters Ann and Rebecca, stipulating that they would forfeit their inheritance if they returned to Jamaica unmarried: this explains Francis & Ann's marriage in London soon after his death, and Rebecca and George Roberts marriage somewhat later! He did not appear to have had any children by his wife, Elizabeth Pusey, who he married in Jamaica, in 1790. It must have taken some time to sort his estate as slaves belonging to his estate were baptized in 1814 at Giddy Hall.

He also refers to a relation and cousin Andrew Wright Booth of Vere (not yet 21 in 1804) in his will. An Andrew Wright Booth was ch 25/11/1813, son of the late Andrew Wright Booth. The "late Andrew Wright Booth" was probably the one referred to in the will and is likely to be an unrecorded son of John Gaul and Rachel Judith (Wright) Booth, who were breeding between in Vere about 1773 and 1796. See under Francis Wright below.

On the 1804 map, "A Wright" is shown as the proprietor of estates at Single Rock, Mitcham and Silver Grove pens. The Earl of Balcarres still owned property around there: he had been a Governor of Jamaica. Was there any connection between him and the Wrights?

Much information was from Oliver's Carribeanea (quoting Mitcham PR).

Deeds Grantor:
1782 312/221 Andrew Wright to Susannah Rose, Sa Neg
1783 316/114 Andrew Wright to Peter Neath et al, Mortgage
1785 338/120 Andrew Wright to George Netherwood, Con Slaves

RUTH SINCLAIR - 1764

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St Elizabeth PR a free "mestu" in children's record:
Born^PR: abt 1764, ch April 1768 age abt 4 yrs.
Parent: Dau of Judith Burton (Mulatto?) in PR. Father John Hayle Sinclair deduced from his will.
See later section for the Sinclair family.
Partners: Mr Andrew Wright & John Read.

Died: probably early 1799, but no record of death found (3/2008).

Will: Proved 24 Jul 1799 (no inventory found).

Ruth Sinclair of... Vere,... spinster... poor in health and weak in body... To my well beloved daughter Ann Wright, Mary Wright and Rebecca Wright....3 negroes (named)
To my beloved daughter Isabella Read who I make and nominate as my heir of this my last will and testament... slaves...To my well beloved daughter Ruth Read....To my well beloved friend John Read of.... Vere......my dearly beloved brother Alexander Sinclair of St. Eliz. and Thomas Read of Vere appoint as executors... My wench Camilla and Camilla is to serve Isabella Read till she is 15 years....
From the way in which the will is phrased, it is probable that Ruth had children by John Read after those by Andrew Wright, who had married Elizabeth Pusey in 1790.

Deeds Grantor:
1783 314/57 Judith Burton to Ruth Sinclair Sa Neg
1798 449/139 Ruth Sinclair to Thomas Read S Slaves

Issue:
(Ann & Mary both reputed daughters of Mr. Andrew Wright by Ruth Sinclair, a free Mestu, child reputed white, named Wright in PR):
1/1. Ann Wright (2/1788).
1/2. Rebecca Wright died bef 1830.

No record of her in the St Elizabeth PR, but mentioned in Ruth's and Andrew's wills.
Married: George Roberts, 2/11/1816, St John's Hackney.
George Roberts was a co-owner (with Francis Maitland) of slaves and eventual proprietor of Silver Grove pen: presumably through inheritance by Rebecca. Silver Grove visited by AM 4/2002
Issue:
2/1. Edward Maitland Roberts, b Giddy Hall, 15/8/1817, d
Silvergrove 12/4/1888.
2/2. William Allen Roberts, born England, 23/11/1818.
2/3. Rebecca Roberts, born England, 13/7/1820.
2/4. Georgeanna Roberts, born Silvergrove, 8/4/1822.
2/5. George Roberts, b abt 1824-5
George married, 2nd, Ruth Angell at "Lookout", Balaclava, Manchester, 27/1/1830 and died between 1840 & 1845 (ref Almanac), leaving issue.
PR: GR of Manchester, Gent, & RA of St Elizabeth, spinster, person of colour by licence.
PR: Also found marriage of Benjamin Angell & Sarah Reed of Manch, 18/12/1833

1/3. Mary Wright (9/1790)

dau of Andrew W by a negro (mestise0, Ruth Sinclair (PR).
Mentioned in Ruth's will of 1799, but not in Andrew's of 1806: probably died in this period.

1/4. Sarah Wright, Reputed dau, she a free mestu Ruth Sinclair,

b. 22/9/1785, ch 24/9/1785 (quite probably died soon after)
St Elizabeth PR.

Also in St Elizabeth PR:
Issue of Andrew Wright and Elizabeth Pables (both white):
This Elizabeth is probably not his wife Pusey, who would have been too old.
1/2. Lewis Wright, 12/8/1795
1/3. Mary Chambers Wright, 12/7/1799

ANDREW WRIGHT DETAILS:

From Caribbeana by Vere Langford Oliver (1910). Vol 1/P227 (CU Library)

"He has a high stone tomb, formerly enclosed with iron railings to the east of the church and on the top there is the inscription: "Here lies interred the body of Andrew Wright esq formerly of this Parish and late of the Parish of St Elizabeth and of Mitcham Pen, in the Island of Jamaica, who departed this life on the 18th February 1806, aged 54 years. For his great partiality to this place (ed: Mitcham Surrey) he named his Pen in Jamaica Mitcham".
(AM: in fact, the property was known as Mitcham in 1763).
The iron railings were removed from his tomb in 1883 by order of the Mitcham Burial Board. His baptism is not recorded in the register. Caribbeana also gives a shirt précis of his will.

Jamaica Gazette, 1794, the following advertisement:

Mitcham Pen, 13/11/1793:
Runaway slave from the subscriber about the latter end of August last, a new negro man named Jamaica, about 5 feet high: has filed teeth, country marks on both temples and right shoulder and breaks down back, marked on right shoulder AW rather small; had on when absconded a blue baise frock and took with him an afnhurgh(?) one, Reward £2-15s. Andrew Wright.

12/1/1793:
St Elizabeth Vestreyman: Andrew Wright
23/3/1793:
On Tuesday the 22nd a subscription purse, for two years old, two mile heats, was run for over the Race course at Lacovia, by Mr. Andrew Wright’s Bay Colt, and Mr. Salmon’s Pepper Filly, Brunettes. The first heat was won by the Colt, but in the second he ran out of the course and was distanced ...

His Will
His will (PCC, 265 Pitt), was signed 21 January or February 1806, Proved to "Charles Grant of King Street Southwark" at PCC in London, 5 March 1806 and 28 July 1806.
The will fills 13 pages in the register, probably the lawyer on piecework! Full Will Text
His estate took time to finalise: slaves baptised 1815 at Giddy Hall were described as belonging to the estate of Andrew Wright.
He is described as Andrew Wright of St Elizabeth co Cornwall, Jamaica, esq, but now residing at Great Tower St, London.

Bequests:

Trustees and Executors:
"my friends John Chambers of Saint Elizabeth, esquire, Jeremiah Snow of Broad St, Ratcliffe Highway, Middlesex, hatter, John Pusey Wint and James Cross of Southwark, Surrey, Gentleman, They were also guardians of Ann & Rebecca until 21 or marriage.
of .. my pen and plantation in Saint Elizabeth called Mitcham with the slaves, cattle, plantations, utensils and effects .. and all other my lands, tenements, slaves and real estate in Jamaica or elsewhere ..and ...to "cultivate manage and improve the (pen & plantation) to the best advantage and consign the produce thereof from time to time to Great Britain to be sold" and .. use the income towards the £5000 and mortgage payments and repairs and other outgoings for the estate.
To son in law John Pusey Wint: about 30 slaves, Single Rock Estate, near Calabash Bay, Vere (about 200 acres), and 5 £1000 annual payments from Mitcham pen.
to "relation and cossin" Andrew Wright Booth of the parish of Vere £1000 when 21 years old.
to pay an annuity of £300 sterling "to my dear wife Elizabeth Mary Wright" for life (if she makes further claims, she may forfeit the whole), with a further £300 single payment if she moves from Jamaica to GB.
£100 to each Trustee.
to pay .. for the education and benefit of my reputed daughters Ann Wright and Rebecca Wright born of Ruth Sinclair, until aged 21 or married, whichever is the sooner.
..the residue of the income shall, until the last daughter is 21 or married, be added to .. the residue of my personal estate
The residual estate left to Ann and Rebecca Wright and their issue, failing that to John Pusey Wint and Andrew Wright Booth. If either Ann or Rebecca returned to Jamaica unmarried, their share would pass on "were she virtually dead without issue of her body"
"And I direct my said executors to devise to Ann and Rebecca Wright respectively as soon as conveniently after my decease copies of this my last will and testament to the intent that they may be fully acquainted with the contents thereof and particularly the clause prohibiting their return to Jamaica under the circumstances aforesaid"

Inventory: date 18 November 1807, Ent 27 October 1808.
Shown by John Pusey Wint, acting executor
Left

Elizabeth Mary Pusey (Wright & Wint)

Parish Church of Brompton (on the North Wall of nave) (London)
In memory of Elizabeth Mary Pusey, dau of Benjamin Pusey of Cherry Hill and Cherry Garden Estate in the Parish of St Dorothy, Jamaica. Relict of Samuel Wint, esq of Spanish Town and Andrew Wright, esq of Mitcham Pen St Elizabeth of the same Island. She was interred in the cemetery of this church 6th August 1821 aged 78 years. This tablet is erected in her memory by John Pusey Wint esq, her son.

Puseys appear in the Jamaica records from a very early date, early 1660’s.

MI Jamaica:
Alley, St Peter’s PC (formerly Vere) Clarendon
Mural Tablets.
William Pusey esq, Representative in Assembly for this parish, and Colonel of the Midland Division of Horse Militia, d 11 June 1783 aged 42
Elizabeth his wife, d 8 June 1780 in her 40^th year.

John Pusey esq, d 24 Jan 1767 aged 75 (and floor slab)

Death (PR):

Vere

Pusey

Elizabeth

17780614

Wife of Wm Pusey

Bapt (PR):
St E Wint John Pusey 18121206 @ Hodges

St E Wint John Pusey Negro Slave
St John Wint Mary Index

Vere Wint James Anderson 17761116

Vere Wint Ann Anderson 17761116

Vere Wint Elizabeth Anderson 17761116

Vere Wint Francis 17980714 A Slave

Vere Wint Sarah 17980714 A Slave

1/1. John Pusey Wint,

ch 20/3/1781 St Catherine, of Samuel & Elizabeth Mary Wint. (PR), was proprietor of Hyde Pen in Vere parish from at least 1815-24. Married abt 1807, Eliza. Died aft 1871 re census.
John Pusey Wint died Q2 1876, age 95, Kensington 1a83.
Wints were shown in Vere on the 1804 map.
The Wint family seem to have been in the Staffordshire/ Derbyshire border area from the Census results.
It would appear that the Wints did not come to England until after 1851.
2/1. Eliza Wint, b 9/12/1807, ch 7/7/1807
2/2. William Shute Wint, b 3/9/1814 of JP Wint & wife.

Died 1840.
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 From: "John Parker"[ii] (see notes)
I am a teacher at the King's School, Canterbury. I have worked here thirty years, part of that time in a school hall and former church, St. Mary's, Northgate (Canterbury). The floor will be lifted this summer for refurbishment purposes and I know that there is a stone (about 7X3 feet) dedicated to "William Shute Wint, died at the age of twenty six in 1840, 13th. Lancers."

This hall is now a drama centre. Other items have been found and the Canterbury Archaeological Trust will look in early July.
…. this regiment later became the Light Brigade. Many of the Lancers died of cholera on the way back from India in 1839.

2/3. John C Wint, 1816-1866 ref Brett Ashmeade Hawkins.

may not be correct:
MI Jamaica: Ryde, Near Newport:
Mr J.C. Wint born 23 January 1816 died 30 June 1866

2/3. John Pusey Wint, b abt 1813 found in census with father.

Ch 6/12/1812, Hodges Pen, St Elizabeth (PR).
M. 11/3/1841 in Horkstow, Lincoln, Sarah Ann Hele, dau of John Carroll Hele (he was in a shipwreck (story online) and swam ashore).
1861 Census, 12 Kensington Sq, London:
John Pusey Wint (Hd, 48, Fundholder, Jamaica), Sarah Ann (w, 38, Teignmouth, Devon), John Pusey (s, 18, Boulogne), John Pusey Wint (father, wid, 80, Fundholder, Jamaica).
1871 Census, 12 Kensington Sq):
John P Wint (Hd, 90, Fundholder, Jamaica), John P (son, 58, Fundholder, Mar, Jamaica), John P (g/s, 28 Merchant's Clerk, France), Sarah A (d-in-l, 48, Teignmouth).
1881 Census, 8, Poplar Grove, Fulham:
John P Wint (Hd, wid, 68, Independent, Jamaica), John P (son, unm, 38, Independent, France, B Subject).
1901 Census, 120 High St, Kensington:
John P Wint (Hd, S, 58, France)

JP Wint had a bad spring 1813, 2 advertisements in the Jamaica Gazette:
27/2/1813:
Stolen from Goshen Pen, a dark bay mare, small star on her forehead. A doubloon reward on delivering her to the property and 4 doubloons on providing by whom stolen on application to the overseer at Goshen or the subscriber at Ryde near May Hill,
JP Wint.
23/6/1813:
Ryde, May Hill.
Strayed from the subscriber on Saturday the 12^th, a black and white Fox hound bitch branded on the near side R. A doubloon reward,
JP Wint.

From the Jamaica Gazette:
JP Wint on list of Jurors for February 1814 Grand Court.

From Brett Ashmeade-Hawkins, 9/2006:
John Pusey Wint was born in Jamaica, but like most Planter's sons was sent home to England to be educated. He seems to have returned to Jamaica in 1815. He and his wife and children lived at Ryde, a coffee plantation near Newport, some 2,000 feet above sea level in the Carpenter's Mountains of southern Manchester Parish. The climate here would have been very cool and it must have been a healthy location, a welcome relief from the heat, mosquitoes and fevers of the plains far below. John Pusey Wint's son, John C. Wint (1816-1866), who eventually inherited the coffee plantation, is buried at Ryde and his tomb may still be seen there. In the 1960s the Ryde property was purchased by Ansell Hart, one of Jamaica's best-known Antiquarians, who thought it was the most perfect place in Jamaica to retire.

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PATTY PENFORD

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A freed mulatto slave, in daughter Rebecca’s baptism entry described as: “lately belonging to Mr Roderick Rose”.

Buried: 10/7/1795, in the Church Yard, St Elizabeth (prob Black River).

Nothing found so far of her birth in St E, Westmoreland, Vere, Clarendon, St Catherine & St Andrew Indices. St E & Westmoreland registers checked for other similar names to about 1760, none found. If she had Rebecca in 1749 and a son 1769, she was probably born between 1725 and 1734. (9/2008).
It is noticeable that illegitimate children bore a variety of surnames, not always related to the mother’s name.

Will - 63/142 Dated 11/7/1789, Ent 8/9/1795 no inventory found.

Deeds:
228/181 Lewis Vassall to Patty Penford dated 28/7/1766, Ent 24/9/1768. She bought a mulatto slave named Sam from Lewis Vassall of St Elizabeth; she was a spinster of St Elizabeth.

249/116 purchase of 12.5 acres of land dated 5/9/1769 Ent 8/8/1772.
291/73 purchase of Little Culloden Date 19 January 1778 Ent 27 May 1778
339/116 Purchase of the Cove Date 1/12/1784 Ent 4 March 1785
15 November 1784 Privilege Bill, copied from the National Archives in Kew.

1766:
She is recorded as buying 3 properties in Westmoreland.

The first was purchased from Alexander & Mary Forbes (planter of St Elizabeth) in 1769 12 ½ acres on the sea, and whilst it is described in the deed, there is little idea of where it was, however the Forbes are shown on the 1755 map. J£60 sell to Patty Pentford 12.5 acres of ground in Westmoreland, part of 23 acres of land patented to Morice Rowlinson, bound South East on White Savannah Gulley, South West on the Sea, Northerly on Lewis Alfoand?, and Westerly on Derrick Durrant.

The next was Little Culloden, bought 1778 from Thomas Taylor of Hannover, practitioner of Physic and surgery of Hannover for J£200 .. convey Little Culloden containing 96 acres and one half .. bounding southerly on the sea easterly on Great Culloden Westerly on Ankerdown (Ankendown?). She left this property to daughter Margaret Forbes. (Little Culloden is a guest house in 2010).

White House & Vicinity (Jamaica, A Visitor’s Guide; Harry S. Pariser)

The ruined 19^thC castle in the grounds of Auchindown Farm is rumoured to have been built by one Archibald Campbell to house Napoleon. Its two towers are, rather absurdly, connected underground. The 300 room Sandals South Coast is slated for construction near here. See the early morning fish market at Whitehouse, where dugout canoes are still constructed. At now nearly landlocked Scott’s Cove the Spanish once unloaded munitions and supplies for the colonists who remained to fight off the British. Vendors sell fish and bammy here.
Accommodations: Basic rooms in White House are available above the fast food place. White House Beach Villa is to the right after the town. The Jamara Villa... Dine at the Auchindown Restaurant. .... Attractive Natania’s Guest House (969-2513; Whitehouse PO) at Little Culloden has a garden, pool and beach; ... The Little Culloden Villa (979-9200) offers five a/c bedrooms, including two in a gingerbread-style cottage. It comes with cook, housekeeper, and satellite TV.

Sandals South Coast appears to be just to the NW of New Hope (Culloden), between there & Auchindown.

The last and biggest was the Cove Pen bought in 1785 from Thomas Hogg for J£1000. The boundary of the Pen begins on the road from Black River to Sav-la-Mar on the eastern edge of Scott’s Cove. She granted to Thomas Hogg 15 feet square around the grave of Thomas George, the owner in 1775; nothing has been checked, but the assumption would be that Thomas Hogg inherited the Cove from Thomas George. This is the property marked as Penford’s in the 1804 map. She left the Cove to Rebecca who in turn left it to Francis Maitland. The Pen bordered on land patented to Major General James Bannister[iii]

MI of Jamaica: Major General James Bannister late Governor of Sarrenham (Surinam) who departed this life the 10^th November Ano Domi 1674 in the 50^th year of his age.

She also had a property called the Grounds adjoining Lower Works Pen on the northern edge of Black River. I suspect that this was her “retirement home”, with Margaret Forbes occupying Little Culloden and Rebecca Wright the Cove with her 2 boys, Francis and Richard Maitland.

Named fully in Hyem Cohen's will: subsequently found in Privilege Bill.

In 1784, she was the subject of a Privilege Bill, granting her, her daughters and grand children the rights of whites: she seems to have been a woman of substance, and baptised etc. These were relatively unusual, only about 650 cases being recorded in Jamaica. They were necessary to enable persons of colour to own more than £2000 worth of property.

In her will of 1789, she was of St E, free mulatto..
To Rebecca Wright, free quadroon… Cove Penn abt 214 acres… for life and then to her 2 sons, Francis & Richard Maitland…
18 slaves and their children to Rebecca Wright
Half of my mares at the Pen of Mr Andrew Wright to Rebecca…
Daughter Margaret Forbes .. Land called Little Culloden 96.5 acres, or if sold before Patty’s death the resulting sum.
11 slaves and their children to Margaret Forbes
To grand daughter Elizabeth Littlehayes 2 slaves and my black mare
To Francis Maitland 2 cows one mare and the remaining half of the mares at Andrew Wrights pen.
To Rebecca and Margaret house etc on Black River bay .. land adjoining Lowerworks Pen called the Grounds 3.5 acres
Remainder to daughters Rebecca & Margaret.

Margaret Forbes by the time of Patty’s will was probably a partner of Hyem Cohen, a rich man, and may have been the younger of the 2 daughters mentioned. As she was probably supported by him, she would have received rather less than Rebecca, whose partner John Maitland was by this time dead.

Roses Valley,
in St Elizabeth, is named after the first owner, William Rose (Jamaica Almanacs, 1811) of this now defunct estate. Roses Valley is now a village in the centre of which is a Baptist Church, There is also Roses Valley Post Office. DPNJ.
Rose Hill is only about 2 miles from Giddy Hall.

Issue:
1/1. Rebecca Dunston Wright. B 5/1749
1/2. Margaret Forbes (Hyem Cohen will).

Patty bought 12 ½ acres from Alexander Forbes and his wife Mary in 1769 – could this be Margaret’s father?
(Birth not found 2/2008 in St Elizabeth or Westmoreland)
Described as a free quadroon in Hyem's will of 1803, and Margaret already deceased.
Buried 21/8/1797, Northampton (PR)
Will not found but many other Forbes about.
Hyem Cohen died about 1803 (ref will & inventory)
Issue by Hyem Cohen (ages ref HC will):
(These 4 were mentioned in Rebecca Wright's will of 1805 as nephews & nieces).
2/1. Catherine Cohen, aft 1778
2/2. Caroline Cohen, aft 1778
2/3. Alexander Cohen aft 1782
2/4. Henry Cohen, aft 1778
2/5. Elizabeth Littlehayes,

assumed to be a daughter of Margaret Forbes rather than Rebecca Wright by the way in which the documents were written. Mentioned in privilege bill and Patty’s will

1/3. John PInford, son of Patty Pinford,

The Illeg Son of Patty Pinford a free mulatto, b 1776 bap 28/11/1769 (St Elizabeth PR). No other mention of him in wills or otherwise. Assumed died early.

Other Penford data:
Also St E PR (LDS London):
Issue of Alexander Forbes & Mary his wife:
Forbes, Helen 7/11/1759 2/2/1761
Forbes, Mary, born 19/12/1762, bap 1765,

Penford, Charles, bapt 12/6/1795, Negro belonging to Rebecca Wright abt 15 years of age

Westmoreland: Penford, Martha, A free mulat? Ch. 16/12/1784

MI St Catherine’s:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ALEXANDER FORBES ESQR PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL OF JAMAICA BELOVED AND RESPECTED FOR HIS GREAT ABILITY UNSPOTTED INTEGRITY AND UNIVERSAL BENEVOLENCE. HE WAS YE SECOND SON OF SR DAVID FORBES OF NEWHALL IN YE COUNTY OF EDINBURGH IN SCOTLAND. BORN AT EDINBURGH THE 27th JULY 1689, DIED AT JAMAICA THE 13th NOVEMBER 1729.

Arms (As Forbes of New hall), Azure on a chev. between three boars' heads erased argent, as many unicorns' heads erased, gules. Crest, A cubit arm grasping a snake, gules.

FRANCIS WRIGHT - 1715

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The father of Andrew Wright.
Probable origins:
Born^PR: 12/10/1715, ch^PR. Vere, 15/11/1715, Spon: Sarah Booth,
Parents: William & Elizabeth Wright.
Married^PR, 1^st: Ann Mary (Ann Maria), bur^PR 31/1/1754 St Catherine
Married^PR, 2^nd: 12/8/1755, Kingston, Susannah Chambers; he a planter of St Catherine, she a widow of Kingston (PR).
Died^PR: 15/5/1758 St Catherine.
Will not found, Inventory held.

1754: Francis Wright owned in Vere 26 acres (JFS)

In 1749, Francis Wright entered into a partnership with John Chambers whereby Francis agreed to farm 600 acres of land in St Thomas-in-the-Vale belonging to John Chambers. They each provided slaves and livestock for a share in the profits. The deed is a long document describing the exact arrangements, account to be kept etc. John Chambers’s wife Elizabeth is mentioned. After John Chambers’s death in about 1752, and Francis’s wife’s death in 1754, Francis married Susannah Chambers. In 1756, there were a couple of deeds moving slave ownership about for a nominal sum – this was presumably part of unravelling the partnership arrangement. Elizabeth then gives up her claim to that (large) part of John Chambers’s estate left to her, it passing to Robert Clarke, but with Francis Wright’s use for life.

The name Mary Chambers Wright appears twice in the Wright baptism records. John Chambers executor of Andrew Wright’s will. Barzilla Wright of Westmoreland referred to Jacob Chambers as his uncle and John Chambers in his will of 1747. John Chambers an extensive grantee of land (plats).

Chambers shown on the jamaica1747bowen map in St Thomas in the Vale on the river which runs into Kingston Bay, in the area of what is now Bog Walk.

In his estate inventories he is described as a planter of St Catherine.
The inventory of 1758 was shown by Susannah Wright, and was valued at £1662/13/2d and included 13 men 12 women and 6 children.
A second inventory was carried out after Susannah’s death when the estate was referred to as being “unadministered”: Joseph Wright, planter of Vere was named as an administrator and the property to be shown by by John Anderson junr
“An appraisal of the negroes belonging to Francis Wright dcd.”
This second inventory was only of the slaves, which had reduced since the earlier one from £1330/5/- to £1030 in the late one.

Deeds:
749 137/102 Ent 9/11/1749 Francis Wright of St Elizabeth, planter sells to John Wallen 1 negro.
1749 149/39 John Chambers to Francis Wright 23 November 1749 ent 20 Aug 1752
1755 161/130 John Howell to Francis Wright Lease
1756 163/34 (now 51) Peter Chambers & Francis Banks to Francis Wright
21/1/1756 ent 13/3/1756
1756 163/33 (now 52) Francis Wright & Susannah Chambers to Robert Clark

10/2/1756 Ent 13/3/1756
1758 Inventory 38/54 Dated 17 august 1758 Ent 23 January 1759

1760 Inventory 40/155 date 27 November 1760 ent 18 May 1761

Issue of Francis & Anne Marie Wright:
1/1. John Dunstone Wright, ch 25/9/1750 St Catherine

(of Ann Maria), bur 8/6/1754, an infant. (PR)

1/2. Andrew Wright, b. 18/2/1752, ch 6/3/1752, St Catherine. (PR)
1/3. Susannah Wright, b 23/10/1753, ch 10/1/1754, St Catherine,

bur 30/4/1755, an infant. (PR)

JOHN HAYLE SINCLAIR

AM09/07

A John Nevile Sincklair ch Clarendon, 14/12/1731 of John & Priscilla.
On line above the ch of Samuel Nevil s of Nevil & Elizabeth Hayles (PR).
Several Hales breeding about this time.

Parents: John & Priscilla Sinclair.
John Sinclair's will of 1741 makes JHS his heir. JS names his wife as Priscilla, who left much to JHS in her will in 1764.

Will entered 19/11/1766. Inventory held.
Property called Bernuda Castle.
Wills LOS 36/134

I John Hayle Sinclair... give devise and bequeath unto Sophronia Sinclair, Nicholas Sinclair, Susannah Sinclair, Sarah Sinclair, Thomas Sinclair, James Sinclair, Patrick Sinclair, Edward Sinclair, Joseph Sinclair, and Ruth Sinclair, the children born of the body of Judith Burton (and also John Sinclair born of the body of Sarah Bonner) all my whole estate real and personal or mixed...
In case the surnames hereby expressed should be disputed and Exocotions? Taken on there unto by any person or persons claiming or to claim by right of consanguinity or otherwise any part of my said Estate or the whole thereof as I can find none of my relations ready to do me the least kindness nor did one of them assist me to get money or wealth/ my will and desire is and I do hereby to all intents and purposes give devise and bequeath the said estate real personal or mixed to the above mentioned identical devisees... and in case they attain the age of 21 years without white children... it is my will that Judith Burton shall reside in my home called Bermudas Castle in order to take care of my children during her natural life as she pleases (as long as she doesn't marry or cohabitat) (then all is denied her)

I appoint my dear and trusty friends Thomas Wastnoys? and Joseph James Swaby executors and guardians
Inventory valued at £J2033, of which £1735 was 37 slaves, £220 in livestock and the remainder as household goods.

Inventory: total of £2033-5s, including 43 slaves.

1754: John Hayle Sinclair owned 437 acres in St Elizabeth, & 1580 in Vere.

Thomas Durrant to John Hayle Sinclair – 1755

160/9 (28) ent 30/3/1750
Thomas Durrant planter of St E and JHS planter of ST E
Thomas Durrant sells to John Hayle Sinclair for 10/- 300 acres of land called Manatee Valley commonly called the Ovens.

JH Sinclair – Burton – 1765 – was this part of Thomas’s estate?
210/126 April 1765.
Indenture (selling part plot of land) between JHS and Judith, Thomas & Francis Burton and Sophronia Sinclair all of St E. £8 from Judith, £150 from Thomas, £48 from Francis, £50 from Sophronia Sinclair, 2 slaves to Judith Burton, 2 to Thomas Burton & 10 acres in Alligator Pond Savannah, being part of 350 acres conveyed to Thomas Durrant in and about the place the place he dwelleth on. To Francis B one slave, to Sophronia Sinclair one slave.

A Robert Sinclair was an attorney at law 1790 Jamaica.

A John Hayle Shickle appears in the Deeds and Crop Records in the 1780-90’s. Who????

20/3/11:
While trying various searches in Google, in this case for Sinclair Jamaica, your post on genforum came up dated about a year ago.

I am descended from John Hayle Sinclair via one of his many daughters. I wondered where you got the possibility of his being a son of Earl Sinclair and the Westmoreland connection?

My evidence so far is that my JHS was in Clarendon & St Elizabeth. I have copied of the salient points of his will, and that of a John Sinclair who died in about 1740, and mentions his son, John Hayle Sinclair, as does John snr's wife Priscilla. John snr seems to have been an immigrant, and could well have been a son of the Earl.

There was also a Captain William Sinclair in Jamaica about the same time, and I believe he was from the Clan Chief family.

What is your connection with the Jamaica Sinclairs?

Antony Maitland
palis325@gmail.com 20/3:

Hello my maiden name is Sinclair and my grandfather came from a family of 12 from Westmoreland. Last year I went to Scotland to see if I could trace our lineage and it was surprising to see my family deep connections. I found some gravestones in Roslyne Scotland that made some references to Westmoreland/ Jamaica. Could u give me some more info. I also pulled some file from numerous archives ...at this point trying to piece together our history.
Hope to hear back

Had Issue by:

JUDITH BURTON

AM09/08

From children’s dates, she must have been born before 1735.

Parents are uncertain:

As she was not married to JHS (white) and the wording of his will, it is likely she was white, or nearly so as JHS refers to his children’s ability to produce white issue.
There is no real doubt that she was a product of the family of Francis Burton, but via which of his sons is open to question.

1: Nicholas Burton & Sarah Witter (see under Nicholas for explanation)
Born: abt 1730, ch 5/9/1755, but no surname given in the PR entry.

2: a deed of 1730 between Benjamin & Thomas Burton and Judith Burton, spinster of St Elizabeth – who was she? Benjamin & Thomas were probably the sons of Benjamin, son of Francis. She was probably an unrecorded granddaughter of Francis & Judith and probably white. There is no other reference to a Judith Burton of this period.

Thomas (Francis, Benjamin) mentions in his will of 1764 sons Thomas Christopher & John Francis and daughter Judith, inter alia. One of his executors was John Hayle Sinclair. The deed between JHS & Judith, Thomas & Francis Burton & Sophronia Sinclair might refer to the 3 issue of Thomas Burton and to Judith’s daughter Sophronia; the deed in 1765 would tie in with sorting out Thomas’ estate. Thus Judith Burton, partner of JHS might have been a daughter of Thomas Burton.

3: Benjamin Burton (Francis, Benjamin) had issue with Dorothy Rochester, baptised 1734, one of whom was Ann Judy Tervier Burton. Maybe this was her. Depending on the date of her birth, this one could be the same as in #2 above.

The only other Judith Burton so far found (5/2011) was a daughter of Thomas & Mary Burton, Thomas son of Benjamin, son of Francis; this Judith was of a later generation than the partner of John Hayle Sinclair.

Of St Catherine in will. Inventory held.

Deeds Grantor:
1783 314/57 Judith Burton to Ruth Sinclair Sa Neg

Issue of Judith Burton, no father in the PR, but all in JHS’s will except Priscilla, so there is no real doubt that they were his children.

1/1. Elizabeth Sophronia Sinclair, will entered 20/6/1806 of St

Elizabeth, dated 10/9/1786, John Swaby and Judith Burton executors.
Issue of John Rotten (died at sea 1795) & Elizabeth Sinclair:
2/1. Robert Rotten, b. 10/8/1769.
2/2. Arabella Rotten, b. 17/8/1774.

Emails from Samantha Hoy[iv] 7/05.
She descended from Ambrose and Bridget (nee Smalbroke) Rotton, who are her 10 x great grandparents. They were also John Rotton's 4 x great grandparents and she is researching all the Rottons from the family who originated in Kings Norton, Worcestershire in the 13th Century. Ambrose and Bridget built Stratford House in Birmingham in 1601 and it still stands today, a lovely old half-timbered house.

1/2. Nicholas Sinclair,
1/3. Susannah Sinclair, renounced executorship of Edward's will
   8/9/93.
1/4. Sarah Sinclair, b abt 1755, ch April 1768,
   Natural Child abt 13 - St E PR.
1/5. Thomas Sinclair, b abt 1759, ch April 1768,
   Natural Child abt 9 - St E PR.
   Issue by Judith Powell:
   2/1. Mary Ann Sinclair, b.3/4/1803.
1/6. Priscilla Sinclair, b abt 1759, ch 16/3/1759,

Natural Child. No age given and not mentioned in will, probably died early. (PR) no father (V1/19)
Ref Downie: born 17/10/1759.

1/7. James Sinclair, b abt 1760, ch April 1768,

Natural Child abt 8 - St E PR.
Issue of James & Fanny:
2/1. Thomas Sinclair, ch 21/12/1792.

1/8. Patrick Sinclair,
1/9. Edward Sinclair, b abt 1762, ch April 1768,

Natural Child abt 6 - St E PR.
Died about 1793 of St Elizabeth.
Will St Elizabeth, planter, 1793, It 1#38.
Partner: Susannah Harriott, who made deed of gift to Sarah Sinclair 20/9/1796.
Issue:
2/1. Sarah Sinclair, b 9/8/1793
(Susannah also had child Catherine Ann Malcolm b abt 1795.

1/10. Joseph Sinclair, b abt 1763,

ch April 1768, Natural Child abt 5, St E PR.
Executor of Edward's will 1793.
Issue of Joseph Sinclair & Ruth Million (PR: Mellin):
2/1. John Hale Sinclair, b 1790, ch 23/12/1794 - PR.
2/2. Joseph James Sinclair, born 1792, ch 23/12/1794 - PR.
2/3. Ruth Sinclair, born abt 1800.

1/11. Ruth Sinclair b abt 1764, ch April 1768,

Natural Child abt 4 - St E PR.

1/12. Alexander Sinclair

(mentioned as Ruth's brother in her will - not in John's will). Of Manchester. Born abt 1766. Alexander Sinclair at Prospect, St. Elizabeth, with 85 slaves in 1811.
His will of 16/8/1822. Mentions Sarah dau of brother Edward, heirs of Francis Maitland, housekeeper Lucy Facey & nephews John Hale Sinclair and Joseph James Sinclair.
Issue (ref will, & Downie, probably of Lucy Facey):
2/1. Thomas Sinclair, born abt 1788.

Will entered 28/1/1824 probably his, of Manchester.
Issue in will (by Sarah Brown??):
3/1. Edward Sinclair, ch 31/10/1826
3/2. George Horatio Sinclair, b. abt 1820, ch 31/10/1826.
3/3. Judith Sinclair, born 1819, ch 27/9/1820.
3/4. Archibald Sinclair, ch 31/10/1826.
3/5. Possibly the issue of Elizabeth Wander

(ref will codicil).
Manumission: Eliza Wander & the child with which she is enceinte, by Thos Sinclair, probate, 23/2/1824.

2/2. Joseph Sinclair, b abt 1794, ch 4/9/1813

Issue of Joseph Sinclair & Mary Ann:
3/1. Andrew Sinclair, b 10/8/1834
3/2. Rudolph Sinclair, b 14/6/1839.
3/3. Louisa Sinclair, b 8/8/1843.

2/3. James Christopher Sinclair, born 1791, ch 7/5/1826.

Married Grace Powell, 27/10/1839,
Issue:
3/1. Alexander Sinclair, b 8/3/1810, ch 19/5/1833?
3/2. James Sinclair, b at 1811.
3/3. Catherine Sinclair, b abt 1815
3/4. Annie Sinclair, b abt 1819.

2/4. Alexander Sinclair of Manchester.,

b abt 1796, ch 4/9/1813.
Will entered 19/12/1829 mentions mother Lucy Facy, siblings Joseph, James, Sarah, Susannah, Priscilla , and Elizabeth. (all still living 17/11/1824)

2/5. Sarah Sinclair, b abt 1797, ch 3/12/1817.
2/6. Susannah Sinclair, Spinster of Manchester

Will Ent 23 Nov 1841 probably hers:
"My property call? Toy? Ball?". Dau 5 acres each.
Issue (by "good friend Ralph Segree"?):
3/1. Isabelle Sinclair, m. Mr Strupart?... her children
3/2. Esther Facey Segree,
3/3. Adeline Segree, ch 25/10/1826.
3/4. Susannah Sinclair Segree,
3/5. Rachel Segree, ch 25/10/1826. Not in will.
3/6. Sarah Victoria Segree, b 28/2/1836, ch 10/6/1838.
3/7. Lucy Facey Segree, b 18/4/1832, ch 28/9/1835.
3/8. Rebecca Fernandes Segree 5 acres each...
3/9. Matthew Segree, ch 5/10/1826.
3/10. Augustus Segree, b 6/3/1830, ch 28/9/1835.
3/11. Abraham DeSouza Segree, b 3/4/1834, ch 28/9/1835.
3/12. Rebecca Fernandes Segree, ch. 1842:

not in will - mother died at or just after birth??

My good friend Ralph Segree... executor and guardian

2/7. Priscilla Sinclair, b abt 1805, ch 7/5/1819.

Issue with John Lea:
3/1. Alexander Sinclair Lea, ch 25/10/1826.
3/2. John Sinclair Lea, ch 25/10/1826.
3/3. William A. Sinclair Lea, ch 25/10/1826.

2/8. Elizabeth Sinclair. Of Manchester,

mentions Prospect Plantation and father and brother Alexander.
Will dated 1/11/1827, ent 29/8/1833.
Issue with Jacob Segree:
3/1. Ralph Sinclair Segree, ch 25/10/1825.
3/2. Abraham Facey Sinclair Segree, ch 25/10/1825.

2/9. Judith Sinclair, born abt 1786, ch 21/12/1792.

(in land deed for 14 acres of mountain land adjoining Providence plantation from Robert Bowes 29/6/1815, ent 5/11/1821 names daughters; Alexander names grandaughters with same name).
Issue of Robert Bowes & Judith Sinclair:
3/1. Henrietta Bowes, born 9/10/1806.
3/2. Caroline Sinclair Bowes, b 24/3/1810, ch 10/5/1813.
3/3. Mary Magelina (or Sinclair) Bowes, b abt 1814.

Issue of John Sinclair & Sarah Bonner:
1/12. John Sinclair.

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WILLIAM & ELIZABETH WRIGHT

AM10/09

Parents: Andrew and Rachel Wright
Mentioned in Andrew’s will etc.
Seems to have left no trace (will or inventory). It becomes difficult to find births much before about 1710 in most parishes as the records were only just starting.

Issue of William & Elizabeth Wright, Vere PR:
1/1. Son Wright: b. 6/12/1712, ch. 8/1/1713.
1/2. Dunston Wright, ch. 6/12/1713 (possible father of Rebecca)
1/3. Francis Wright, b. 12/10/1715, ch. 15/11/1715,
1/4. William Wright, b. 21/8/1718, ch. 2/10/1718,

Sponsors Simon Booth, John & Sarah Fisher

In his will, Andrew Wright, son of Francis (1/3.) above refers to Andrew Wright Booth of Vere as his cousin and relation. It seems likely the "late Andrew Wright Booth" was probably the one referred to in Andrew Wright's will and is likely to be an unrecorded son of John Gaul and Rachel Judith (Wright) Booth, who were breeding between in Vere about 1773 and 1796. Rachel Judith Wright was christened 8/8/1756 in St Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph & Elizabeth Wright. Joseph & Elizabeth had earlier had children christened in Vere. For AWB to be a cousin of Andrew Wright, Rachel Judith would have had to have been a close relative. Perhaps Joseph Wright was a brother of Francis Wright, Andrew's father.
John & Joane Dunston had 3 children baptised in St Andrew about 1685, including Henry (29/7/1686) who married Margaret Hazzard (27/12/1708); the latter had amongst others Henry & George (1712 & 1715). Were these connected with the Wrights?

Joseph Wright:
A possible son or of William Wright.
This Joseph Wright appears as an executor & in inventories.
Inventory 43/228 16 January 1766
... Of Joseph Wright late of the parish of Vere .. Planter deceased according as they were shown unto us by Elizabeth Wright his sole executrix...£2564-19-6d
Left daughter Rachell Judith & wife Elizabeth in his will. Presumably the first 2 recorded children did not survive.

1754 acreage: Wright, Joseph, St. Elizabeth 550, Vere 27, Tot 577
Joseph Wright was also producing children about the same time in Westmoreland & St Elizabeth.
PR:-
1/1. Joseph Wright ch 22/8/1742 of Joseph Elizabeth, Clarendon

1/2. John Phillips Wright 13/8/1744 of Elizabeth, Clarendon
1/3. Rachel Judith Wright 8/8/1756 of Joseph Elizabeth, St E.

JOHN SINCLAIR

AM10/13

Born: probably Caithness as he still had siblings there when he died.
As he only mentioned one child, John Hayle Sinclair, in his will and his wife outlived him by 24 years, it is likely that he was still a comparatively young man when he died.

John Sinclair became a substantial land owner, having at least 1750 acres by 1736. Much of this was sugar plantations.
As at May 2011, there are a number of deeds which need reading, and some others which need rereading to clarify some of his transactions. A timeline of these deeds is shown elsewhere in this paper.

Granted land in Carpenters Mountains in 1737.

Will dated 6/4/1740, ent 4/6/1741. Then of Clarendon.
To Alexander Sinclair the son of my beloved brother Peter Sinclair of Clarendon... planter £20 per annum and a young heifer at farm on Tophill in Carpenter's Mountains.
Inventory held.

To my brother Peter Sinclair £500
To my beloved daughter Elizabeth Sinclair £1500 (£500 at 18 years or marriage)
2nd £500 at 21 years and a negro girl

To my dear and beloved wife Priscilla Sinclair use and occupation of my dwelling house and pasture at Top Hill aforesaid where we now dwell and my new plantation at Dixons... Land at Milk River called Rumate Plantation?
My beloved son John Hayle Sinclair the rest and residue including in Caithness in Scotland.
My brother Robert Sinclair in Caithness Scotland gentleman
My brother Francis Sinclair " "
My brother William Sinclair " "
To the eldest son of my sister Margaret of Caithness...
To my beloved sister Elizabeth Sinclair the wife of Alexander Sinclair of Lybster Caithness
Sister Ann

Inventory: £J2420, of which £1337 in slaves, £208 outstanding debt and the remainder stock & furniture.

Died: About 1741, Jamaica. Clarendon burials only from 1770.
Property at "Top Hill", "Dixons" plantation, land at Milk River called "Rumate".

Married: Priscilla Hayle (assumed from son John Hayle Sinclair).

PRISCILLA HAYLE - 1707

AM10/14

ch: 7/10/1707 born 5/9/1707, Vere (PR)
Parents: Neaville & Sarah Hayle
Died: Abt 1764.

She could also have been the daughter of John Hayle jnr mentioned in John snr’s will.

1754: Priscilla Sinclair owned St Catherine 25, Vere 200, St John 20

Will of 1764 LOS/35F181 1764
Widow of Vere.
half to daughter Elizabeth Anderson (wife of John), remainder to John Hayle Sinclair.
Inventory 12/4/1765 £J1104, almost entirely slaves.

Issue:
1/1. John Hayle Sinclair.

He is specifically called John Hayle (Sinclair) in father’s will.
A John Nevile Sincklair ch Clarendon, 14/12/1731 of John & Priscilla, looks a bit young for a spelling error for John Hayle.

1/2. Elizabeth Sinclair, married John Anderson (re will). B aft 1722.

Died between Priscilla’s will in 1764 and deed 1765 (210/126)

NICHOLAS BURTON

AM10/15

Born: probably in Jamaica – mentioned in parents wills
Parents: Francis & Judith Burton
Died: unknown – no trace of will or inventory.
Issue from Judith’s will (disobedient grandsons!):
1/1. Francis Burton
1/2. John Burton

Issue of Sarah Witter:
Listed with no surname other than mother’s, except in the case of Johanna: the assumption that the earlier children were of Nicholas Burton is only on the basis that the later daughter was recorded as a daughter of Nicholas Burton, but this assumption is somewhat shaky looking at the parish records! (AM 5/2011)

1. Nicholas Gilbert, base son of Sarah Witter, was baptized on 29 Dec 1752, St. Elizabeth. (FHL Film 1368561, page 8) The father was not named.

St Elizabeth PR:
Lucy Burton 17710300 Nicholas Catherine Nief

Ruth Burton 17720800 Nicholas Catherine Nief

2. Judith and Ruth, Base daughters of Sarah Witter, were baptized on 05 Sep 1753, St. Elizabeth. (FHL Film 1368561, page 14) The father was not named.

3. Johanna Marks, the illegitimate daughter of Nicholas Burton and Sarah was baptized Apr 1768, 12 years of age. (FHL Film 1368561, page 30)

Linsted St Thomas in the Vale Church
Floor
Miss Elizabeth Burton, cousin to William & Elizabeth Thomas of this Parish, died 13 July 1742 in her 18^th year.

By the way, in your research of Sinclair, if you ever come across a record of Thomas Sinclair born at Green Olive, St. Elizabeth, 1832... please keep me in mind.

Children of Nicholas Burton and Sarah Witter (assumed as initially father not named, but Johanna Marks Burton was quoted as son of Nicholas & Sarah):
1/1. Judith Burton - born abt 1730, bapt. 5 Sep 1753

had children with John Hale Sinclair - see below
(FHL Film 1368561, page 14)

1/2. Ruth Burton - born abt 1735, bapt 5 Sep 1753

had children with Joseph James Swaby, Esq.
2/1. Mary Swaby - born 29 Apr 1753
2/2. Joseph James Swaby - born 16 Mar 1755
Family moved to Yorkshire via Norfolk, England.
Ref Alison Powell, Genesreunited.

1/3. Nicholas Burton - bapt. 29 Dec 1750

had children with Catherine Nief
2/1. Elizabeth Trehern Burton - born 1766 – ch 4/1768 12 yrs.
2/2. Lucy Burton - born Mar 1771
2/3. Ruth Burton - born 1772
Issue of Nicholas Burton & Sarah (St C PR):
2/4. Johanna Marks Burton, ch 4/1768, abt 12 yrs old.

1/4. Elizabeth Burton - born abt 1745

Possibility: Reputed children of James Powell, free mestice by Elizabeth Burton, white woman
2/1. Ann Treherne Powell, b 12/7/1776, ch 9/88
2/2. Judith Powell, b 10/12/1778, ch 9/88

1/5. Benjamin Burton - born abt 1750, St Elizabeth

had children with Hannah Powell reputed children by Hannah Powell, free mulatto.
2/1. Mary Burton - born 23 Dec 1772
2/2. Francis Burton - born 12 Sep 1775
2/3. Joseph Burton - born 18 Dec 1777
2/4. Susanna Turner Burton - born 26 Dec 1785
2/5. Beddy Burton - born 19 Aug 1787
2/6. Sarah Burton - born 1 Apr 1789
2/7. Hannah Powell Burton - born 26 Feb 1792
2/8. Benjamin Burton - born 17 Nov 1794
2/9. Elisha Powell Burton - born 31 Jul 1796
2/10. Rachel Burton - born 5 Apr 1799

1/6. Johanna Marks Burton

born abt 1756, bapt Apr 1768 aged 12 of Nicholas & Sarah (St E PR).

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ANDREW WRIGHT – died 1712

AM11/17

Possibly the original immigrant from England.
Or a descendant of
Robert or
William or
Elizabeth Wright
who left deeds etc from 1663 onwards.

Was granted land in Vere in 1684 – is this correct?

1703 Grant.
Patent: 1B/11/1/14f49-102, 500 acres on the Brazalata Mountains.
Plat: 1B/11/2/34f27

In partnership with Phillip Edmonds.

Letters Patent of 1703 to Phillip Edmond & Andrew Wright:
....All that parcell of land meadow pasture or whatever kind of Land ye same Situate Lying and being in Brazillatta Mountain in the parish of Vere Containing five hundred acres, Bounding South West upon the said Philip Edmonds West on Coll George Ivy North western on Coll Valentine Mumbee and East and South East on waste Land....

A plat dated 1675 granted one Elizabeth Wright 65 acres in Vere – who was she?? There is no indication of this land being in any way related to Andrew Wright’s land.

Will 14/15
of Vere, date 30/3/1712 Ent 6/1/1712-3
... I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Rachell Wright two negro girls named Bella and Hagar and my white horse her side sadle and all the household goods which I now have for and during her naturall life and after her decease to be equally divided between my two sons Robert Wright and Andrew Wright ... as soon as my said son Andrew Wright attains the age of eighteen years
I give and bequeath unto my beloved son William Wright and his heirs three negro men and three negro women to be bought from on board a Ship out of the produce of my Estate two years after my Decease.
all the residue of my Estate as well as all as personall I give and bequeath unto my Beloved sons Robert Wright and Andrew Wright ... Equally to be divided between them But if it should happen that either of my sons die without heirs .. then it is my will that my said Estate descend to the survivor of them,
Lastly I appoint my beloved wife Rachell Wright my executrix and my Loving Friend John Morant Esq Executor ... and Guardian my children
and further it is my will that my said son Andrew Wright shall be maintained and educated until he shall comes to the age of eighteen years out of the produce of my whole Estate
it shall be in the power of my said Executrix and Executor to ??suffer my said Estate to be divided until my son Andrew Wright attains to the age of eighteen years only my son Robert to have his respective share of the neat produce my said estate shall make every year until that time...

In his inventory of 1712 shown by Rachell Wright, he left 9 adult negroes and 6 negro children. His personal belongings were modest, except for 3 lbs of indigo.
Total value was £318/10/2d.
Married: Rachel in his will, surname unknown, no will or inventory found.

Issue of Andrew & Rachel Wright Ref will of 1712:
1/1. Andrew Wright, B aft 1694, married Mary & died 1747 (will).

26/178 of Vere, dated 2/11/1747, ent 1/12/1747
Sick and Weak of body

To wife Mary of life, then nephew Francis Wright, if no heirs

then to brother Robert, Executors wife & honourable John Gale
Inventory: 18/175 3 /4/1749 Ent 12/4/1749

Shown by Mary Wright. Left total of £467.

1/2. Robert Wright

1754 acreage: Wright, Robert, St. Elizabeth 550, Clarendon 100, Vere 44, Tot 694
Inventory of Robert Wright 29/55 1749 – was this him? He left £4922-6-8 1/2d, including a lot of clothes, wigs etc!
Issue of Robert & Judith Wright, Vere PR:
2/1. Mary Wright, b 18/8/1716, ch 9/11/1718,

sponsors Mary & Thomas Wilkinson, & Mary Savny.

2/2. Judith Wright, b 4/11/1718, ch 6/1/1719,

sponsors Rachel & Elizabeth Wright, Simon Booth & Wm Wright.

1/3. William Wright

Married Elizabeth
2/1. Francis Wright (ref uncle Andrew’s 1747 will)

As they were sponsors to each others children, it is probable that Robert and William Wright were, if not brothers, closely related.

Robert Lancashire[v], 1/2009:
have you come across a James Wright Esq who married Miss Redwar in Vere in Sep 1798? She is the daughter of Henry Redwar and brother of William Gale Redwar and sister of Mary Gale Redwar, Ann Elizabeth Redwar and Harriet Gibbons Redwar.
Dept of Chemistry
UWI, Mona, JAMAICA

NEVIL & SARAH HAYLE

AM/11/27

Ch/born: unknown – deduced from parents will etc.
Parents: John & Priscilla Hayle

Nevil Sinclair to Peter Sinclair – 1745
125/37, dated 7/8/1745, ent 8/11/1745
Between Nevil Hayle of Vere, planter and Peter Sinclair, of Vere, planter.
Nevil Hayle for £500J from Peter Sinclair sells 6 male slaves and six female negro slaves, their offspring etc ... subject nevertheless to a certain indentiture of mortgage made by the said Nevil Hayle to John Sinclair and which was by the said John Sinclair assigned over to the said Peter Sinclair and by the said Peter Sinclair to Francis Smith ...
In presence of Francis Smith & George Burrell
Was this mortgage in deed 188/179 1732-3?

1743: a Nevil Hayle, Gent of Vere sells to George Hayle land where George dwells.

Issue of Nevil & Sarah:
1/1. Priscilla Hayle, (PR: b 1707 Vere)

may have been our ancestor – see summary.

1/2. Humphrey Hayle, (PR: b 1713 Vere)

1/3. Neville Hayle (inferred to be him)

Neville was probably married to Elizabeth, the mother of his son Nevil. She probably died early, maybe in childbirth; Neville senior then seems to have taken up with Grace Bowman and had one child by her; she was instructed in Neville’s will to look after the welfare of son Nevil.
Will probably Samuel Nevill Hayle 1743???
The order of Nevil & Samuel varied in the document!
24/25
of Vere, planter. Dated 11/8/1741, Ent 22/9/1743
To Grace Bowman, all estate for life
To sons Nevil Hayle and Samuel Nevil Hayle Bowman son of Grace Bowman residue. Both under 21.
Also that my son Nevil Hayle have necessary meat drink bedding and apparel during the life of Grace Bowman and that she shall put to any neighbouring school until he rightly understands vulgar arithmetic
Exec Brother John Hayle and Grace Bowman.
Added codicil:
My desire that the land given to me by my father Nevil Hayle situate lying and being near his the said Nevil Hayles land in Smokey Hole mountains to be sold .. to be laid out in negroes
Thomas Hayle also a witness..

Inventory 24/68
Dated 21/3/1743 Ent 7/4/1744
Of Vere, planter To be shown by John Hayle and Grace Bowman, executors
Total £329-10s including 300 acres of land sold for the use of the estate.

This 300 acres is probably that deeded in about 1741 (111/100) between Thomas & Samuel Nevil Hayle. The entry in the inventory probably refers to the land going to Grace Bowman for life, she then deeds it to Samuel Nevil’s legitimate son as below.

Grace Bowman to Nevil Hayle – 1756
163/126 13/3/1756 ent 7/7/1756
Grace Bowman of Vere, spinster and Nevil Hayle of Vere planter
Samuel Nevil Hayle late of Vere did in his will devise to Grace Bowman 300 acres in Clarendon which Samuel Nevil Hayle purchased from Thomas Hayle bounding East on the path south on Mr Thomas Stone West on John Sutton N on John Hayle senior. Grace Bowman sells for £15 half of the 300 acres to Nevil Hayle.

Married Elizabeth
2/1. Samuel Neville b. 1731

abt 1731 ch. Clarendon: Samuel Nevil s of Nevil & Elizabeth Hayles (PR)
Probably the owner of 1185 acres in Clarendon in 1754 (JFS owners).
3/1. Mary C Hayle, dau of Samuel Nevil & Bathia,

b 23/11/1763, ch 27/1/1764, Kingston PR.

1/4. Mathew Hayle - Vere PR: b. 14/3/1717, bap 2/5/1717, of Nevil & Sarah.

Index has this as Mathew, but the copy register misses out the name! sp Thos Palperman & Mrs Elice Anderson (Alice, his aunt)

Mrs Elizabeth Anderson sponsor (sister of Nevil).

FRANCIS & JUDITH BURTON

AM11/29

1693: A Francis Burton, bachelor, leased 7 acres on Liguanea for 7 years – who was he?
Bur St C Frances Burton, 20/9/1702 (PR) – may be him?

V6/126 (new index)
of St Catherine’s Date 11/8/1690 Ent 11/2/1690-1
To wife Judith 1/3 of estate in lieu of her dower for her natural life. After her decease to my three sons Nicholas John and Benjamin.
To wife one negro woman and her 2 children, one horse and decent furniture for one chamber
To dau Ann £100 when 16, £50 for maintenance and education to 16 years and one negro woman
Wife to have the privilege of one negro for her and Ann
Remainder to sons Nicholas, John & Benjamin.
If sons die without issue, estate to go to Ann. If Ann dies without issue, goes to Thomas Ellicot son of Thomas Ellicot, in Barbados.

No inventory found for Francis.

Judith Burton

Her will makes a number of bequests:
14/24 Dated 20 August 1712 Proved 27 march 1713
A Widow of St Catherine

To son Benjamin one negro boy by name Jack to him and his heirs for ever also one small feather bed bolster and two pillows

To dau Ann Treherne one negro woman by name old Moll also a negro boy by name Dick
To Grand son, John son of Benjamin one negro man named Tom
To G/S Francis Trehern son of Ann one mulatto man by name Sambo, but if he dies before 20 ...
To Mary dau of Nicholas when 18 one negro woman by name of Maddam and her daughter by name Hannah ... and my bed and furniture, if she dies before 18 then the 2 negroes to my son Benjamin...
To Ellbaton dau of Benjamin when 18 one negro girl by name Black Sarah, but if she should die before 18 to her brother Thomas ...
To Sarah Hunt dau of my daughter Ann Trehern ... six slaves by name Jobe and her three children by name Cofre Castor and Pogo with all their increase also Nany and her son a Mulatta by name Tom ... but if she dies before 20 ... to Mary Burton
To Sarah Hunt .. my house and land that I doe now live in ... one English Down bed bolster and two pillows of the same down, Curtains and Tallins? Of Garlickord? Dimmit and Counterpain frindground about now in the hands of her mother ... I give her two pair of Garlick Sheets two pairs of Pillows one dozen of fine Osbriggs napkins work with blow thread and mark with the same thread with the letters B
E I
one draper table cloth two towels but if she should before the age of four and twenty years or day of marriage then to go to her mother Ann Trehern

To Francis Burton and his brother John the sons of my son Nicholas Burton to each of them a “shild” (shilling?) for their disobedience to me,
To Ben Burton and his brother Thomas six silver spunes between them marked with IB also two silver forks marked IA,
I give old Bess to Sarah Hunt and Mary Burton
I give my books to my son Benjamin Burton
As to the small quantity of goods and linen that doth belong to my house I doe give it to my daughter An Trehern
As to my wearing clothes I give them to Sarah Hunt and Mary Burton my grand children
And as to my funeral charges it is my desire that I may be laid in my grave with as little charges as may be,

The name Trehern is spelt various ways in the original text, a file copy of the original.

Inventory 10/18 Ent 16/4/1713:
...widow late of the Town of St Jago de la Vega (modern day Spanish Town) .. Shown by Richard Treherne, Cooper her administrator - at the end he is only named as Richard Treherne (no Cooper – which was his trade).
Left 14 slaves and a good list of household goods, a few chickens and a gold ring – presumably her wedding ring, total £592-14-6d.

An Elizabeth Burton bur St Thomas in Vale (Linsted) 1742.

Issue of Judith Burton (will 1712)
1/1. Benjamin Burton (JB will), died 1720

Married Elbeata Mapall (spelling??) St Catherine 4/6/1700
Will: 15/256
of St Elizabeth, planter, ent 13/3/1720 dated 23/1/1719.
Wife Elizabeth for life
Sons John Burton, Benjamin, Thomas
Nephew Francis Treherne mentioned.
Executrix wife Elizabeth,
Trustee Brother Richard Treherne (must be brother in law).
Inventory:
12/38 Dated 6 July 1721 Ent 8 July 1721
An inventory of the Goods Chattes Rights and Credits of Benjamin Burton of the parish of St Elizabeth Deceased
Shown by late wife Elbaton Burton £1469 11s 1/2d.

Married Elizabeth or Elbaton, probably dau of Elisha Clarke of Vere – he died before 1720 (re John will of 1720). She was deceased when his inventory was entered 6 July 1721, but was an administrator of his estate.
He left a total of £1469 11s 1/2d. Richard Traharn signed his extensive, detailed inventory.
2/1. John Burton

Ch 17/12/1701 St Cat. of Benjamin & Elbetha (PR)
15/220, of St Catherine, mariner, Ent 14/2/1720, dated same?
.. All that bequest legacy or sum of money devised to me in and by the last will and testament of my Late grand father Elisha Clarke late of the parish of Vere dcd and all my estate ..
to my cousin Francis Treherne son of Richard Treherne of the parish of St Catherine Gent …
Inventories:
2 inventories were made, the second being for items not shown before. It is assumed that they are both for our John Burton: they show tools and trade goods which a mariner might have owned.
11/91 Date 7/9/1719
.. Of Port Royal shown by Robert Buckingham & Mary Burton
£360-12-6
12/32 Dated 17 August 1720
A second inventory … John Burton .. Which were forgot and not shown unto us .. At the first appraisement. Total second £37-5-0

2/2. Ellbaton Burton b aft 1694 (JB Will)
2/3. Thomas Burton

Married Mary dau of John Moore, planter of St Catherine’s (re deed 159/100 - 1755 deed sale of land).

Vere PR: Thomas Burton mar Mary Dunbar, widow, 10/8/1740 – this could be them, but seems a bit early.

Will: 35/81 of St Elizabeth 20/5/1763 Ent 4/2/1764

Refer confirms Manumission of negro woman Hannah Mendez, two mulatto boys Nicholas and Francis Burton
Slaves bequeathed to:
To children of Hannah Mendez: Thomas, Joseph, Richard, Edward, Nicholas, Francis, John Benjamin, George William, James, Sampson, Hannah, Mary.
Hannah Mendez children probably those of Thomas’s brother Benjamin.

To my dau Elbeatha Burton, Judith, Ann, Susannah, Mary,
To sons Thomas Christopher & John Francis - slaves
To son Benjamin the residue
Execs: Francis Smith of Vere and John Hayle Sinclair of St E and son Benjamin Burton.

Inventory: 44/107
Ent 13 August 1764
Planter of St Elizabeth shown by John Hayle Sinclair
Total £5753-11-3d

Deeds:

1743: Thomas Burton & wife Mary, planter of Vere sells 1 slave

1749 Deed: 137/52, between Thomas Burton planter of St Elizabeth & Francis Trahern, planter of St Catherine’s Con Slaves to TB. See below.

1750 Deed: 140/148, dated 13/9/1750, ent 31/1/1750-1:
Benjamin Burton & Thomas Burton & his wife Mary planters of Vere sold to James Powell 50 acres.

1750 Deed: 140/157 Date 17/9/1750, ent /11/1750
Thomas & Mary Burton to Benjamin Burton gift of slaves.

1754: Thomas Burton: St. Elizabeth 158, Clarendon 271, St. John 25, Total 454

1755 Deed: 161/201 Thomas Burton to Hannah Mendez Sa Negro

1755 Deed:
159/100 (271) Ent 2/4/1755:
Thomas Burton of Vere to Richard Ragg of St Cat
Sale of Land:
Wife Mary late Mary Moore one of the daus of John Moore of St Cat planter.
Land in St John’s 51 acres in John Moore’s will 1/5/1723 split between daus Margaret & Mary, bounding on Wm Brice and Alger Pestell.
£50

1754: Thomas Burton owned:
St. Elizabeth 158, Clarendon 271, St. John 25, Total 454.

Thomas Durrant to John Hayle Sinclair – 1755
160/9 (28) ent 30/3/1750
Thomas Durrant planter of St E and JHS planter of ST E
Thomas Durrant sells to John Hayle Sinclair for 10/- 300 acres of land called Manatee Valley commonly called the Ovens.

1817 Clarendon: Chisholme, James, attorney, Trout Hall, 252/154
...Same, Mammee Gully, 24

JH Sinclair – Burton – 1765 – was this part of Thomas’s estate?
210/126 April 1765.
Indenture (selling part plot of land) between JHS and Judith, Thomas & Francis Burton and Sophronia Sinclair all of St E. £8 from Judith, £150 from Thomas, £48 from Francis, £50 from Sophronia Sinclair, 2 slaves to Judith Burton, 2 to Thomas Burton & 10 acres in Alligator Pond Savannah, being part of 350 acres conveyed to Thomas Durrant in and about the place the place he dwelleth on. To Francis B one slave, to Sophronia Sinclair one slave.

228/113 (187 new)
Ent 5/9/1768 1/11/1767
Indenture between Hannah Mendez a free negro woman, Nicholas Burton and Francis Burton free mulatto men all of St E on one part and Francis Smith on other part.
Thomas Anderson granted 146 acres of land near a place called Hilberry in St E bounded North on Capt Richard Marks Easterley on Captain Richard Stoner, west on land of Jonathan Harrison. TA by deed conveyed said lands to Joseph Creamer and wife who sold it to Zacharia Gaultier who sold it 1/5/1728 to Benjamin Burton. BB died intestate so Thomas Burton his brother inherited. TB by deed 17 12/1760 granted to HM, BB and FB.
This indenture conveys 146 acres to Francis Smith for £81-5s

Issue of Thomas & Mary his wife (JAM St E PR & TB Will):
3/1. Susannah Muscal B: 17480710

Ch: 17531228 (or 23/12/1753)
Mary Booth Burton, ch: 17690727 of Susannah Maclean Burton. Vere V1/38.
Bur 16/10/1770 aged 2. Probably her.

3/2. Mary B: 17501216 Ch: 17531228 (or 23/12/1753)
3/3. Thomas Christopher B: 26/12/1753 Ch: 26/1/1754 (PR)

Possible issue, ch St E: (note ch date same as Ben & Hannah Powell)
4/1. Hannah Burton, reputed dau of Thomas Burton by Bessy James,

Ch: 26/9/1788, abt 11 years old.

3/4. John Francis b. 15/1/1756, Ch: 7/8/1756 (PR)
3/5. Sampson Ch: 7/8/1757 of Thomas & Mary (PR).
3/6. Benjamin Burton – will only.

Possible issue of Mr Benjamin Burton & Hannah Powell, free mulatto (St E PR):
4/1. Mary Burton, bap 26/9/1788, b 28/12/1772
4/2. Francis Burton, bap 26/9/1788, b 2/9/1775
4/3. Joseph Burton, bap 26/9/1788, b 18/12/1777
4/4. Susannah James Burton, bap 26/9/1788, b 26/12/1785
4/5. Biddy Burton, bap 26/9/1788, b 19/8/1787

3/7. Elbeatha Burton – will only.

Possibly ch St E PR reputed children of James Powell by EB:
Note ch date as for Benjamin/Powell & Thomas/Bessy above.
4/1. Ann Treherne Burton, b 12/7/1776, ch 26/9/1788
4/2. Judith Powell burton, b 10/12/1778, ch 26/9/1788.

3/8. Judith Burton – will only.
3/9. Ann Burton – will only.

3/12. Thomas Burton, illegitimate son of Thomas Burton & Hannah Mendez

Ch 4/1768 age 7 years; this son born of Hannah Mendez, previously attached to Thomas’s brother, Benjamin after Benjamin’s death.

Rose dau of Thomas Burton by Kelly, a slave of Benjamin Burton, born 7/1/1759, bap 28/3/1761, St Elizabeth PR.

2/4. Benjamin Burton

Ch 23/3/1703 St Cat. of Benjamin & Elbetha
”Ben” in Judith’s will?
died Intestate, owning 146 acres of land in St E (ref deed 228/113) which went to brother Thomas as his legal heir, who deeded it to Hannah Mendez and Nicholas & Francis Burton, Benjamin or Thomas’s supposed “partner” and his 2 sons – all three of whom were manumitted in brother Thomas’s will of 1764. See below. From the deed 228/113, he must have died shortly before December 1760.

1730: Benjamin & Thomas Burton gave a negro to Judith Burton spinster of St Elizabeth. If she died negro to Benjamin Burton, a minor. If both died, negro to issue of Dorothy Rochester.

Benjamin Burton owned 155 acres in St Elizabeth 1754.

Deed 1750: 140/148, dated 13/9/1750, ent 31/1/1750-1:
Benjamin Burton & Thomas Burton & his wife Mary planters of Vere sold to James Powell 50 acres.

Deed: 138/108 dated 17/1/1749-50, ent 4/5/1750:
Benjamin Burton gave 1 Negro to reputed daughter Elbeaton Burton
This is probably this Benjamin. (probably the daughter of Dorothy Rochester)

1754: Benjamin Burton owned 155 acres St Elizabeth.

Issue of Benjamin Burton by Dorothy Rochester, mulatto, Clarendon:
3/1. Ann Judy Tervier Burton ch 17340404 (recheck spelling & age)
3/2. John Burton, ch 17340404
3/3. Elizabeth Burton, ch 17340404

Issue of Hannah Mendez,
From Thomas Burton’s will, and assuming from the way in which Benjamin’s land was deeded to Hannah & 2 sons:
Some of these may be by his brother Thomas:

3/1. Joseph Burton, base son of Hannah Mendez, b 17/1/1750,

bap 23/12/1753 (PR)

3/2. Richard, base son of Hannah Mendez b 10/4/1760 ch 8/11/1761

(St E V1/22)

3/3. Edward

The following 2 were manumitted along with their mother by Thomas Burton’s will. They also received land, originally owned by Benjamin, from Thomas. This points to at least these 2 as being Benjamin’s sons.
3/4. Nicholas Burton
3/5. Francis

3/6. John Benjamin
3/7. George William
3/8. James
3/9. Sampson
3/10. Hannah Burton, base dau of Hannah Mendez, b 14/12/1752,

bap 23/12/1753 (PR)

3/11. Mary Mendez, base dau of Hannah Mendez, b 25/10/1754,

bap 24/3/1755. (PR)

1/2. Ann Burton (JB Will)

Married(1) William Hunt
2/1. Sarah Hunt, appeared unmarried in Judith’s will, and under 20 in 1712.

Sarah Hunt, bap 16/5/1697 of William & Sarah.

Married(2) Richard Treherne, a Cooper, 15/4/1703 (St C PR) – various spellings – Traharn in Benjamin Burton’s inventory of 1721. He probably died 7/12/1731 or 12/11/1737 (St C PR).

2/2. Francis Treherne – bap 4/2/1704 (St C PR)

Nicholas Burton (uncle) gives 81 acres in St Catherine in 1707.
Francis Treherne to Thomas Burton – 1749
137/52: Dated 26/12/1737, ent 5/9/1749,
Francis Treherne planter of St Catherine, sells for 5/- to Thomas Burton, planter of St Elizabeth 2 negro girl slaves named Little Whamnia and Fatherless .. and one moiety ... of 2 negro women and 4 girl slaves (named in doc)
The other half of same to Francis’s eldest daughter Jane Treherne
another part to Susannah Bennet Treherne, the second daughter of Francis Treherne
Ann Treherne, the third daughter of Francis Treherne
Bridget Elizabeth Treherne, the fourth and youngest daughter of Francis Treherne.
All less than 21 at date
Issue (dates from St C PR):
3/1. Jane Treherne
3/2. Susannah Bennet Treherne
3/3. Ann Treherne
3/4. Bridget Elbeatha Treherne, ch 19/9/1739 of Francis & Amy.

Bur Bridget Treherne 11/3/1739

A Peter Sladford(?) Treherne bur St C 18/6/1745 – one of these?

1/3. Nicholas Burton (JB Will)

Inherits land from Francis.
1707: gives ½ of 172 acres to nephew Francis Trehern.

Married Mary.
Issue from Judith’s will:
2/1. Mary Burton, b aft 1694
2/2. Francis Burton

Ch 30/10/1693 St Cat. of Nicholas & Mary (PR)

2/3. John Burton.

Possibly married to Dorothy and merchant (1724) Gent (1732) of Port Royal (ref deed 1732). Dorothy was Dorothy Foude.

2/4. William Burton

Ch 25/8/1709 St Cat of Nicholas & Alice (PR),
not Judith’s will, so maybe young.

1/4. Thomas Burton (JB Will): poss died 28/7/1713 St Cat

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JOHN HAYLE snr. – Died 1717

AM12/53

Parents: perhaps William & Martha Hayle of St Albans
Died^Will: 1717

John Hayle was a sugar plantation owner in Clarendon with properties in the area of present day May Pen, and on the River Minho just south of the border into Vere.

John Hayle senior and junior were granted land in several adjoining plots around 1700 totalling 1059 acres. The Hayle property would seem to be on the good land north west of May Pen, probably on the road to Pleasant Valley, probably south of Dawkins Smokey Hole as indicated on “Maplandia” & Google Earth.

John Hayle’s of dated 1714, entered 1717

He was of Vere & a planter.
He left his “Estate dwelling house, furniture and plate except silver spoons and fforks” to Wife Priscilla for life, then to Son Neville Hayle,
also to wife, good riding horse & side saddle & chariot & 4 horses.
Bequests to:
Dau Aline Anderson, negroes she possessed
Dau Priscilla Allen,
Dau Margaret Biggs

To G/S Thomas son of John Hayle, Dcd, land in Clarendon Mountains called Smoakey Hole: if Thomas dies before 21 years then to Grand daughter Priscilla Hale, dau of John Hayle, dcd. 450 acres. If Priscilla Hale dies, to grand-daughters Elizabeth & Mary.
Mentions grand sons John, Henry, William, Samuel, Richard & Thomas by implication sons of John dcd.

To Neville Hale Savannah Land in Yarmouth, Vere and farm of Canle?? or also the land I bought from my son-in-law Dr James Smith
Yarmouth on 1804 map on Hillard’s River, a tributary of the Milk River

Trustee: son in law Dr James Smith.
Dr James Smith referred to as “brother-in-law” in John jnr’s will and son in law in John snr’s will, and in the deed of 1699. He was probably therefore the brother of john jnr’s wife, Elizabeth.

The land from Dr James Smith was deeded 14/12/1699.

In his inventory, the property was shown by Nevile Hayle, his executor and assessor George Hayle.
Total £1803-12-6d, including 71 adult & young slaves, a few sheep, cattle & horses.

Deeds:
There seem to have been several families with similar names: Hayle, Hales & Hals. Spelling seems to be consistent through the indexes, so I have concentrated on “Hayle”.

No information on Priscilla; IGI Britain has no relevant marriages.

Issue of John & Priscilla Hayle, JH will 1717:
1/1. John Hayle, (jnr) died 1712

John junior was a sugar planter like his father, and had lands granted adjoining John seniors land in central Clarendon.

1697: Bought 36 acres in Vere from Henry Napier, mentions indigo.
1712: renews mortgage from Francis Allen for £2278-19-9 on negroes & stock.

Granted land in Clarendon 3/12/1700:
Letters Patent, 1B/11/2/1f175, 3 sheets with Plat:
300 acres in the mountains of Clarendon, bordering West & North on Robert Coates, North & East on waste ground and south on Mary Woods, widow.

1709: granted mortgage on 4 negroes for £81-10 to Thomas Blair.

Will: 14/35
Planter of Clarendon date 17/7/1712 ent 26/6/1713
Estate to wife Elizabeth until son John 24 years when she shall deliver unto guardians.
To daus Elizabeth & Mary £300 each when 18 or married

To sons John, Henry, William, Samuel, and Richard residue when 21

Executrix Wife Elizabeth and Brother-in-law Dr James Smith and Mr Alexander Woods
Also proved by Thomas Hayle
Inventory: 10/41 Dated 26 June 1713, Ent 4 Aug 1713

John Hayle of Clarendon, planter... Shown by Alexander Wood of Clarendon, planter one of his execs. Included 71 slaves, total value £2756-17-6 1/2d. A detailed inventory.
Married Elizabeth, probably Smith (re will’s & deeds).
2/1. Elizabeth Hayle (PR ch 19/11/1704, Clarendon - Hales)
2/2. Mary Hayle.
2/3. John Hayle.
2/4. Henry Hayle.

Was this the Henry Hayle owning 200 acres in Vere in 1754?

2/5. William Hayle.
2/6. Samuel Hayle.

Inventory 22/56 Dated 19 January 1741 Ent 5/3/1745

Of Clarendon, planter, shown by John Shikler of Clarendon, planter
Total £2308, including 58 negroes.
“Grant Dower” Deed 139/129, dated 26/8/1749, ent 25/6/1750:
Mary Hayle of Clarendon Widow of Samuel Hayle of Clarendon, planter to John Shickle of Clarendon, planter – is this them??? Land in Santa Cruz Mountains – was this her remarrying John Shickle??

Issue of Samuel & Susannah (Ch Clarendon PR)
3/1. Elizabeth Hayle, bur Vere, 20/1/1731 of Samuel & Susannah
3/1. White Hayles 2/11/1732
3/2. Susannah Hayles 25/1/1735
3/3. Lord Hayles 17/3/1736
3/4. Elizabeth Hayles 6/4/1738
3/5. Edward Hayles 16/8/1739

A deed (121/33) shows John Shickle as guardian to Edward Hayle in 1744 when Edward was a minor. Lets 2 acres of land to Thomas Wint, butting and bounding westerly on Bullards Savannah and Northerly on the road to Coatt’s Easterly and Southerly on the land of Edward Hayle which said 2 acres is already fenced in which fence to be kept in repair by Thomas Wint ... for 15 years .. or life of Thomas Wint ... yielding and paying yearly a good fatt Turkey Cock ...
Bullars Savannah in 1715 was between the Milk River and the Rio Minho.

2/7. Richard Hayle

HECKLE'S ESTATE, CLARENDON (from JFS MI):

HERE LIES THE BODY OF JOHN HAYES, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 5th SEPTR., 1766, AGED 30 YEARS. ALSO NEAR THIS PLACE ARE INTERRED RICHARD AND HANNAH HAYLE, FATHER & MOTHER OF THE SAID JOHN HAYLE. AS ALSO MARY AND SAMUEL HAYLE AND ELIZABETH BOWEN, BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO THE SAID JOHN HAYLE. AND HIS NIECE, ELIZABETH BOWEN, DAUGHTER OF FRANCIS & THE ABOVE MENTIONED ELIZABETH BOWEN.
Issue of Richard & Hannah (Ch Clarendon PR)
3/1. Elizabeth Hayles 26/3/1733, M Francis Bowen

4/1. Elizabeth Bowen

3/2. Mary Hayles, ch 3/6/1734.
3/2. John Hayle 12/6/1736
3/3. Samuel Hayle 24/11/1738
3/4. Henry Hayles 6/2/1739 & 6/2/1740

2/8. Thomas Hayle

B aft 1693, bef 1714
Thomas Hayle to John Shickle – 1746
128/54 date 11/2/1741-2 ent 15/7/1746
Between Thomas Hayle of Clarendon, planter and John Shickle of Clarendon, planter
Whereas John Hayle senr grand father to Thomas Hayle gave to Thomas Hayle a parcel of land in the parish of Clarendon at Smoakey Hole as in John Hayle’s will.
This Indenture ... Thomas Hayle for £13J paid by John Shickel sells one hundred acres of land being part of the above mentioned parcel of land bounding on the road that leads from Saint Jago Savannah to Burrels Ciaule? And on the east above mentioned land of Thomas Hayle.
It is probable that Thomas had already sold most of the land, and that he remained with 20 acres in Vere in 1754 (JFS 1754 owners).

2/9. Priscilla Hayle – mentioned in John snr’s will of 1717.

1/2. Neville Hayle – see above.

1/3. Alice Hayle, M Mr Anderson
1/4. Priscilla Hayle, M Mr Allen
1/5. Margaret Hayle, M Mr Biggs

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WILLIAM HAYLE

IGI:
The only combination of brothers John Thomas & Richard Hayle (specifically HaYle, the spelling used through the great majority of documents found) in an appropriate period was:

St Albans:
John Hayle 1/1/1641 or 2, the Abbey, St Albans, Will & Martha Hayle – 2 sources in IGI.
Thomas Hayle 18/11/1634 of Will & Martha Hayle.
Richard Hayle 29/1/1654 of Will & Martha Hayle
William Hayle 6/1/1638 of Will.

Also Will Hayle ch of Michael & Marie Hayle, St Albans 1/1/1633, d 10/1/1633

Thus:
1/1. John Hayle of whom above.
1/2. Thomas Hayle, died before 1691:

1681: Thomas bought 70 acres & maybe 106 acres, left to his 3 sons.
1709: Sons Richard & Thomas share in land granted by John & Priscilla in 1708.
1711: complex land deeds giving each brother an amount of land.

Issue Possibly born before 1669 (21+ on 1690 or 1679, 21 in 1700):
2/1. Richard Hayle married Anne (ref deed 49/130).

This may be the Richard Hayles whose will was dated 14/11/1711, and proved 28/1/1712 (13/96). A complicated deed was drawn up 31/1/1711, and entered 14/11/1711 dividing property between Thomas & Richard. It may be that that was done with Richard’s impending death. He was then of St Elizabeth & Vere.

2/2. Josiah Hayle dead by 1708.
2/3. Thomas Hayle, married Elizabeth (Massie?). (from deed ref 49/130)

Assumed that this is the correct connection!
1723: owns 520 acres in St Andrew, grants half share to Martin Wilkins.
Will: ent 2/6/1725, planter of St Andrew. Wife Elizabeth, sons William & Thomas, both under 21; Sister Abigail Cole, her children Robert & John & Jane Parker.
1743 deed: Elizabeth Hayle, widow of Kingston, and son William, bricklayer – were these the connections?? The same deed refers to a William Massie giving Elizabeth land in Kingston, probably her brother, particularly as her 2^nd son was named William Massie.
3/1. William Hayle, bricklayer

MI Kingston:
Thomas Hayle died 27 June 1732 aged 27, also the six children of William & Priscilla Hayle vis:
Elizabeth died 1 July 1735, Catherine died 9 August 1737, James died 27 December 1738, Matthew 12 January 1740, James died 24 January 1740, James died 11 July 1742.

1754 owners:
Hayle, William, St. Andrew 53, St. Thomas in the East 1500, Portland 500, St. George 880, Total 2933.

Received with Governor Knowles's Letter
dated ye 31st December 1754
Received April ye 9th 1755
Read April 10th 1755
Y50
ROCK FORT Dr.
August 10, 1754
To Cash paid William Hayle for mason & bricklayers work done there £140
MOSQUITO POINT Dr.
December 25, 1753
Paid William Hayle for mason & bricklayers work 728. 5. 0.
August 10, 1754
Paid William Hayle for Mason & Bricklayer work 946. 16. 3

Issue of William & Priscilla (Kingston PR, burials from MI):

4/1. James Hayle b 17330528 ch 17330619, bur 27/12/1738
4/2. Elizabeth Hayle b. 27/1/1734-5 ch. 20/2/1734-5, bur 1/1/1736
4/3. William Massie Hayle b. 17360616 17360712,

William Massie Hayle died 1794 (JFS Jam Gazette).
had issue by Martha:
5/1. Samuel Hayle, b 17721001 ch 17730331
5/2. Ann Hayle. B. 17750824 ch. 17751025
5/3. Mary Hayle B. 17790804 ch. 17790815

4/4. Catherine Hayle b. 17370804 17370809, bur 9/8/1737
4/5. George Hayle b. 17380927, ch 17381019:

Had issue by Sarah, ch Kingston:
5/1. Ann Thorpe Hayle, ch 17680803
5/2. John Stevens Hayle b. 17781109 ch 17781127

4/6. Mathew Hayle b. 11/1/1739-40 12/1/1739-4, bur 12/1/1740
4/7. James Hayle b. 11/1/1739-40 12/1/1739-40, bur 24/1/1740
4/8. James Hayle b. 17410416 17410430, bur 11/7/1742
4/9. Ann Hayle b. 1/2/1742-3 3/2/1742-3

3/2. Thomas Hayle, probably buried Kingston, died 27 June 1732 aged 27.

1/3. Richard Hayle, died before 1691,

maybe Richard Hail who married Mary Smart 6/1/1674, St Catherines:
Smarts shown in northern Vere on the west side of the Rio Minho.
Issue:
2/1. Richard Hayle
2/2. George Hayle

This may be him:
George Hayle had dau Olive, b Vere 20/7/1714, ch 1/8/1714 (PR)
George Hayle signed the inventory of John Hayle in 1718 as assessor(?), and was shown the property by Nevil Hayle.
1724 Patent for 300 acres in Clarendon, which he sells to Thomas Fish immediately. A mortgage?
1743: a George Hayle dwelling in Vere bought land where he was dwelling from Nevil Hayle
1754: owners: Hayle, George, Vere 40 (acres).
Possible issue of George Hales, ch Clarendon PR:
3/1. Unk Hayle, ch 14/12/1723 of George
3/2. Thomas Hayle, 15/8/1725, of George
3/3. Judith Hayle, 7/12/1730 of George & Ann
3/4. Sarah Hayle, 24/12/1734 of George & Ann

Also of George & Elizabeth:
William ch 20/1/1751

& of George & Mary:
George Hayles married Mary Jernum, Clarendon 29/6/1746
Mary, b 6/5/1753 ch Vere 5/7/1753 of George & Mary
George ch 17/10/1763 of G&M
Smart Hayle, b 20/10/1767, ch 6/1/1768, Clarendon
Smart Hayle, ch 16/2/1790 of George dcd & Mary.

2/3. Mary Hayle.

A Richard Hayle had a will entered 1711, of St E & Vere.
Children Philip, Milborough Ann, Lydia to divide all between them.

SINCLAIRS OF JAMAICA & CAITHNESS

Ruth Sinclair's forebears can be traced to her grandfather, John, who was born into the Sinclair clan of Caithness, NE Scotland. He had property in Clarendon when he died. It has not been possible to identify her direct Scottish ancestors: there are too many with similar Christian names and no parent has been found with the correct combination of offspring: maybe the supposed siblings were not from the same mother? By 1811, Ruth's brother, Alexander, owned Prospect pen (85 slaves) in St Elizabeth.
Some Sinclair Graves found at Pinnock Shaftson greathouse, north of Bluefields bay, Westmoreland.

From the Royal Gazette:
3/3/1793:
Hanover vestreyman: William Sinclair.

April 6, 1793, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
PERSONS LEAVING THE ISLAND:
Mar 20 Archibald Sinclair, St. Thomas in the East
Apr 3 Robert Boyd, Westmoreland
“ Alexander Burton, Kingston

Manumissions:
10/12/1822, Richard & Elizabeth Sinclair, £00, by James Sinclair
8/8/1823, Alexander Sinclair, £00, by Walter Sinclair.
21/10/1823, Margaret (Mary) Sinclair & 2 children, Constantine & Mary Sinclair, £00, by Joseph Sinclair.
25/10/1824, Chance al Rebecca Sinclair, 10/-, Richard Sinclair.

Under will:
Eliza Wander & the child with which she is enceint, by Thos Sinclair, probate, 23/2/1824.

Other references:
1804: W Burton of Plowden Hills, SW Vere.
1804: J Burton, of Mayday Hills, by J Swaby.
1815: James Burton, estate of, Plowden, Vere

Most of this information was supplied by Robin Downie of Salt Lake City, Dec 2000. For Will data see Will Text.

MI of Jamaica:
Cathedral Spanish Town:
Alexander Sinclair. Departed this life 31/12/1854 aged 52
Margaret Sinclair daughter of Mary Sinclair died 1845 aged 30.

Archibald Sinclair:
A number of deeds etc were noted as being the Hon Archibald Sinclair in the 1750’s; this was probably him:

From: THE SINCLAIRS OF DUNBEATH AND LATHERON. p89

http://www.archive.org/stream/caithnessfamilyh00henduoft/caithnessfamilyh00henduoft_djvu.txt

...Reverting to the succession to the estate of Dunbeath, it appears that on the death of William Sinclair, his fourth son, James, got from his mother a renunciation of her liferent of Dunbeath, at that time worth 200 per annum, and then he ejected her from possession, a step which led to a complaint at her instance to the Privy Council, Next he bought up the family provisions and the debts due by his brother; and finally, in 1720, he adjudged Dunbeath for 48,000 Scots, and was infeft in 1722. In the same year his mother's liferent ceased by her death, and he entered on possession of Dunbeath. In 1704 he was created a baronet,¹ and he died in the Abbey in 1742. and

Sir James Sinclair appears to have been a man of a violent and somewhat unscrupulous character. In 1734, as Baron of Dunbeath, he held a Criminal Court and adjudged one William Sinclair to death for the crime of theft. But the proceedings were quashed, and Sinclair having raised an action against Sir James, obtained large damages. In 1739 one George Sutherland raised an action for wrongous imprisonment against Sir James, in which the latter was subjected to a fine and damages, and declared incapable of public trust in time coming. Sir James was twice married first, to Isabel, daughter of Sir Archibald Muir of Thornton, Provost of Edinburgh, by whom he had four sons and a daughter:

1. William, afterwards Sir William.
2. Alexander, to whom his brother, Benjamin, was served heir.
3. Benjamin, afterwards Sir Benjamin.
4. Archibald, who died in Jamaica, unmarried.
1. Margaret, who married William Sinclair of Achingale and Newton.
Sir James married, secondly, and shortly before his death, Isabel, daughter of John Lumsden, shipmaster in Aberdeen, by whom he had a daughter

¹ [By patent, dated Oct. 12, 1704, to him "ejusque haeredea masculos in perpetuum." Register of the Great Seal.]

SINCLAIR UNKNOWN PARENTS:

A Lieut William Sinclair, later Captain, was granted lands in St Elizabeth about 1675. He appears in various references in Jamaica, but is not thought to be related to our family. Deeds for William Sinclair appear about the same time.

Issue at Caithness (from John's will - all died after 1741 therefore):
Implied in John’s will is that he was from Thurso Parish.
1/1. John Sinclair of Clarendon, died abt 1741, Jamaica.
1/2. Peter Sinclair, Planter (following from JSF)

of Clarendon in John's will, of Vere in John's inventory, Jamaica. Executor of brother John's will. Gentleman in 1741.
1754: Peter Sinclair owned 300 acres Vere.

Nevil Sinclair to Peter Sinclair – 1745
125/37, dated 7/8/1745, ent 8/11/1745
Between Nevil Hayle of Vere, planter and Peter Sinclair, of Vere, planter.
Nevil Hayle for £500J from Peter Sinclair sells 6 male slaves and six female negro slaves, their offspring etc ... subject nevertheless to a certain indenture of mortgage made by the said Nevil Hayle to John Sinclair and which was by the said John Sinclair assigned over to the said Peter Sinclair and by the said Peter Sinclair to Francis Smith ...
In presence of Francis Smith & George Burrell

Will not found.
2/1. Peter Sinclair, bap 12/7/1735 in Kingston.

B0061, I, p. 41

2/2. Alexander Sinclair

b 1/14/1736, bap 3/24/1736 in Kingston

2/3. Thomas Biggs Sinclair, b 3/20/1737, bap 9/19/1740

in Kingston. B0061, I, p. 59

2/4. John Sinclair, b 5/29/1740, bap 9/19/1740 in Kingston.

B0061, I, p. 59

2/5. Margaret Sinclair, dau of Peter & Elizabeth,

Born 3/1/1741, ch 14/11/1742, St Elizabeth

1/3. Robert Sinclair in Caithness, gent.
1/4. Francis Sinclair of Caithness
1/5. William Sinclair of Caithness
1/6. Elizabeth Sinclair of Caithness,

married Alexander Sinclair. Of Lybster in John's will.
OPR: Elspeth Sinclair married Alexander Sinclair, Thurso, 25/2/1726.

John, William, Robert & Francis found in Caithness, Thurso issue of Donald & Elizabeth (Elspeth Cogill). No Peter or Elizabeth

A Number of Sinclairs were transported to Jamaica:

From the Internet, 4/2001:
SINCLAIR, DUNCAN. Covenanter in Argyll's rebellion. Prisoner in the Laigh Parliament House, Edinburgh. Banished to the Plantations 31 July 1685. Transported from Leith to Jamaica by John Ewing, August 1685
(PC=Register of the Privy Council of Scotland)
SINCLAIR, JAMES. Age 19. Husbandman. Dunbeth, Caithness. Jacobite in Cromarty's regiment. Prisoner in Inverness and ships. Transported from London to Jamaica or Barbados by Samuel Smith, 31 March 1747. (P=Prisoners of the '45) (RM=B. Ransom McBride, "Lists of Scottish Rebel Prisoners...1746" The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (May 1980)

John Camden Hotten, ed.,
The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles;
Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices;
Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went From Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600-1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983).
Barbadoes - Alphabetical List of Landowners in St. Michael’s p. 458 – Allex: Sinklaire, 10 acres of land, 1 hired servant, 7 negroes
*****
David Dobson, The Original Scots Colonists of Early America 1612-1783 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1989).

6153. Sinclair, Archibald, res. Stempster Thurso Caithness, d. 1778 Jamaica. (SRO.SH.9.12.1778)
6154. Sinclair, Archibald, merchant, res. Greenock Renfrewshire, sh. Pre 1781, sett. Kingston Jamaica (SRO.RD2.235.39\RD2.236.651
6155. Sinclair, David, mariner, parent George Sinclair of Barrack, d. pre 1733 Jamaica, Edin pr1733 CC8.8.95.
6156. Sinclair, Duncan, Covenanter, transported Aug 1685, fr. Leith to Jamaica. (PC.11.136)
6162. Sinclair, James, b. 1728, husbandman, Jacobite, res. Dunbeath Caithness, transported 31 Mar 1747, fr. London to Jamaica, in St. George or Carteret, arr. Jamaica 1747. (P.3.315)(PRO.CO.137.58)(MR87)
6171. Sinclair, Margaret, res. Caithness, parents Sir James Sinclair of Dunbeath, sh. pre 1778, sett. St. Catherine, Middlesex Co., Jamaica. (SRO.RD4.232.906)

Acts of Assembly:
CO139/27 (225) An act for making free a mulatto man Will, belonging to the estate of William Jones and paying to the Hon. Archibald Sinclair & Richard Welsh the value of the said mulatto man. 16.12 1772. (He discovered the murderer - a mulatto, Sam - of a white man. The murderer was burnt alive.)

William Sinclair, vestreyman, Hannover, & Trustees of the Free School 1/3/1793
Archibald Sinclair of St Thomas in East leaving Island 30/3/1793
Alexander Burton of Kingston leaving Island 3/4/1793
William Sinclair of Hannover leaving Island, 26/4/1793

Caveats entered 1794:
Sep 12 Sinclair, Joseph by Lazarus Hyman
Sep 20 Currie, C. Doug by Robert Sinclair & Thomas Kaylett
Oct 17 Sinclair, Edward by Susanna Sinclair

WAR OFFICE PROMOTIONS: May 17th 1794
1st battalion of the Royals. Lieutenant James Sinclair, from an independent company, to be Lieutenant, vice Duncan, who exchanges

Misc Sinclair:
MI
Spanish Town Cathedral:
Alexander Sinclair 31/12/1854, aged 52, floor slab
Margaret dau of Mary Sinclair d 1845 aged 30
Spanish Town Parish Cemetary:
Lewis Edward Sinclair of Eusen, 29/5/1874
William Cecil Sinclair oe LE and Lucy Sinclair d Torrington, Santa Cruz 7/9/1895 aged 23
Winchester, Salt Spring, Hannover,
William Sinclair esq, d 15/7/1795 in his 36^th year.

TIMELINES

Burton Time line

1664: A Peter Burton was granted land St Catherine, which he left to John Garrett in his will of 1669. Probably no relation.
1670: Peter Burton owner of 18 acres in St Catherine.

1670: William Burton owner of 40 acres of land in St Catherine

1682: Granted Land, December 18, 1682:
Francis Burton – 1682 Platt 1B/11/2/23f25, 2 platts:
Copy held. 874 acres of which 770 acres in St John’s and 95 in that part of St Thomas in the Vale which was formerly St John’s. Part of an Order for 2000 acres. On the Town River (River Cobre). Plat only shows 2 plots, 344 acres and 95 acres. Patents not checked, maybe missing land there.
Neighbour Edward Hilliard plat held and joins well. Fra Burton on the other side Edward Hilliard. Some doubt exists about the orientation; the Burton plat has no north, and that on the Hilliard plat shows the river flowing west-east: not much of the river lies this way. This plat is part of an order for 2000 acres.

1684 Francis buys 172 acres in St Catherine from Anne (Ash) Cunningham,
(ref 41/89)

1686: Francis Burton of St Jago acquires 400 acres from Harbottle Wingfield St Jago Savannah (in Clarendon, between the Milk River & the River Minho) (17/138).

1688: Francis Burton, Gent of St Jago and Judith his wife had mortgaged to Captain Robert Hewitt late of Jamaica 1065 acres in St Thomas in the Vale called Stoneland Plantation, complete with Boiling House, Curing House, Still house, Mill House & 67 negroes, 5 Coppers and 2 Stills.
21 men, 10 boys, 28 women, 7 girls, 12 mules, 2 horses, 35 cattle, 6 coppers, 2 stills and worms. (20/23)

Francis repossessed this as Hewitt was in arrears and resold it to Roger Elletson for £3000, for reasons not immediately apparent, the property was sold to Thomas Ballard Junr and then back to Francis.

1693: A Francis Burton, bachelor, leased 7 acres on Liguanea for 7 years – who was he? (24/16)

1690: Francis Burton Will:
V6/126 (new index)
of St Catherine’s Date 11/8/1690 Ent 11/2/1690-1

1694: Richard Burton, Bricklayer, buys foot land in Kingston (25/59) Also debts (25/63)

1701: Nicholas, Benjamin & Judith sell 50 acres of land in Maggotty Savanna, St Jago (now Clarendon) to Nicholas Philpot. Possibly bought from Wingfield 1686. (33/99)

1707: Judith Burton buys town land, probably in St Jago, presumably as a town home fit for a widow. (41/184)

1712: Her will makes a number of bequests:
14/24 Dated 20 August 1712 Proved 27 march 1713

1708:
Nicholas Burton sell land to nephew Francis Treherne (41/89)

1714:
John & Mary Burton of Port Royal, selling negroes – not our line?
(51/87)

1724: A John & Dorothy Burton merchant of Port Royal sells to James Collins a negro girl. Who were they?? (70/179)

1730: Benjamin & Thomas Burton sell negro to Judith Burton all of St Elizabeth (83/79)

1732: John & Dorothy Burton gent of Kingston, son of Mary leases land (88/83)

1742: MI St Catherine:
Miss Elizabeth Burton cousin to William & Elizabeth Thomas of this parish died 13 July 1742 in her 18^th year.

1743: Thomas & Mary Burton sell slave to Henry Hudson (120/14)

1749: Francis Treherne sells slaves to Thomas Burton & Francis Treherne’s daughters. Probably as executor. (137/52)

1750: Benjamin Burton & Thomas & Mary Burton sell land in Vere (140/148)

1750: Thomas & Mary Burton gift slaves to Benjamin Burton (140/157)

1754 Landholders:
Burton, Thomas, St. Elizabeth 158, Clarendon 271, St. John 25, Total 454
Burton, Benjamin, St. Elizabeth 155

1755: Thomas Burton

1806:
Deborah Burton granted 2 runs of land of 300 acres in St Elizabeth & Clarendon 11/2/1806 (JFS)

Hayle Deeds Time Line

Plats & Patents

The Hayle brothers were granted land on the River Minho in 1672, 3 parcels of 58, 42 & 110 acres. The first 2 would appear to be on opposite sides of the River. In the 1747 map, there are Hales & Hunt together on the west side of the river, just within Vere parish as it borders on Clarendon.

The later plats that can be pieced together of the Hayles and immediate neighbours appear to be on a road between St Jago Savanna & the St Thomas River in Clarendon (where is Pickering Spotts on St Thomas River??), both marked on the 1715 Senex map, in the region of Toll Gate between May Pen & Mandeville. One plat indicates Smoakey Hole.

This one looks to be the most likely place:
original name: Dawkins Smokey Hole

geographical location: Clarendon, Jamaica, Central America

geographical coordinates: 18° 2' 0" North, 77° 18' 0" West
This is abt 10km north of May Pen. A suggestion was that it was a Colonel Dawkins who originally owned it
This position seems to be at or near an industrial site, maybe a Bauxite mine at the end of the railway marked north out of May Pen towards Pleasant Valley.

Robert Cotes plat shows: The road to Smoakey Hole. This road appears on Jno Hayles 1700 as the Road from Coll Dawkins to St Jago, as the New road from Thomas’s River to St Jago Savannah in Richard Dawkins, and on John Hunt 1684 as The New Road leading to Thomas’s River near Pickering Spotts.

From these the Hayle property would seem to be on the good land north west of May Pen, probably on the road to Pleasant Valley, probably south of Dawkins Smokey Hole as indicated on “Maplandia” & Google Earth.

Also other Smoky Holes:
Smoakey Hole Cave in modern times is in the south of Manchester Parish in the Carpenters Mountains north of Top Hill. N17 54 02.6; W77 30 26.3

In 1715, there was a Smokey Hole marked on the map in Clarendon/St Johns to the NNW of St Jago.

Deeds

John Hayle appears first, buying land on the Dry River in 1671, 2 years later, he and Richard & Thomas were granted land in Clarendon. One can assume that they were brothers.
Various transactions in the 1670’s & 80’s show movement of land.

Richard & Thomas were both dead by 1690 leaving 3 sons each. John Hayle snr was a guardian to the children of Thomas, and appears to have been an executor of Richard’s will.
John snr and his son John jnr were granted land in Clarendon. Snr had 2 plots totalling 609 acres, while jnr had 550 acres in the mountains near Smoakey Hole. John snr’s nephews were mentioned in several deeds for relatively small portions of land being moved within the family.

A William Hayle, bricklayer, was active in Kingston in the 1740’s with his widowed mother, Elizabeth. A Thomas Hayle & wife Elizabeth had land in St Andrew in the 1720’s. It is probable that this is Thomas, son of Thomas, brother of John Snr.

1671: John bought 35 acres of land on the Dry River (probably Rio Minho) in Clarendon from William Lord in for £35. Noted from 4/18

1673: Granted 210 acres land in Clarendon, now Vere in 2 lots. John, Richard & Thomas. Patent copy held.

1675: Hayle family active in Clarendon, St Catherine & Vere, the earliest being Jobeth & Catherine’s daughter Mary, ch 2/6/1675, St Catherine (but noted as Morant, East of Kingston).

1676: John & Richard sell 50 acres, Thomas kept remaining 60 acres. (ref deed 32/239)

1680: Thomas Hayle of Vere buys 70 acres at Dry River from Thomas Parry (ref 49/130).
      Willed to sons Thomas, Josiah & Richard (1690 ref 32/239)
      Josiah dead by 1708, so owned by Richard & Thomas

1690 (Before): Richard dies. (ref 32/239)

1690: Thomas’s will leaves sons Richard, Josiah & Thomas. Deed from John & Priscilla passes 60 acres to the children, presumably at their majority with J&P as executors.. (ref 32/239)

1693: John Hayle relinquished rights on land on the River Minho to Richard, George & Mary Hayle, via their guardian Richard Cargill. John Hayle must have been either their father’s executor or perhaps their guardian. These must be children of Richard. As Thomas’s children are listed in 32/239, these must have been Richard’s children. (24/58 Noted)

1697: John Hayle jnr buys 36 acres from Henry Napier (27/108 Noted)

1697: Richard Cargill as guardian of Richard Hayle’s children discharges John Hayle & John Hunt from the children’s property. (27/109 Noted)

1699: John Hayle (snr or jnr?) bought 90 acres from John Harris adjoining his own land. (Noted 29/46-39)

1699: John Snr bought 1/3 of 140 acres in Vere from James Smith, bounding inter alia on Philemon Dixon. (Noted 30/127-90)

1700: John snr granted land in Clarendon 609 acres in 2 plots (Plat Held).

1700: John & Priscilla pass 60 acres to nephews, Richard, Josiah & Thomas, sons of Thomas. Probably acting as executors/guardians. (Noted 32/239)

1700: John Jnr Granted 300 acres land in the mountains in Clarendon. (Plat Held)

1704: John Snr granted 250 acres at Smoakey Hole, Clarendon, adjoining 1700 grant.. (Plat Held)

1708: John & Priscilla Hayle give to Thomas & Richard 70 acres (Ref 49/130)

1709: Joshua probably dead by now (ref 49/130)

1709: Thomas & Richard split land (Copied 49/130)
      Richard sells his half to James Smith.

1711: Arbitration between Thomas & Richard Hayle over split of inherited land, also mentions James Smith resurvey (2 deeds - 48/68 & 69 – in both directions, 68 noted)

1711: Long document. Gives much of the above information.
      Brother Thomas & wife Elizabeth mentioned.
      Richard & Ann Hayle sell their portion to James Smith. (copied 49/130)

1712: John Jnr ref 400 acres at Smoakey Hole – probably release of mortgage (noted 49/215)

1712: John jnr Will

1717: John snr will

1723: Thomas & Elizabeth Hayle goes into partnership with Martin Wilkins on 520 acres in St Andrew in the mountains. (Noted 70/23-22)

1724: 300 acres patented to George Hayle, which he sells to Thomas Fish (ref 71/225).

1732: Nevil Hayle sells land for £850 to John Sinclair (deed damaged).

1740’s: William Hayle, mother Elizabeth, Bricklayer of Kingston: who was he in the 1740’s?

1743: Nevil Hayle sells 5 acres in Vere to George Hayle where he lives (Noted 117/47)

1743: Will of Samuel Nevil Hayle.

1744: Edward Hayle’s guardian John Shickle lets 2 acres to Thomas Wint (Noted 121/33)

1745: Nevil Hayle sells slaves to Peter Sinclair, reference to mortgage by NH to John Sinclair (to Peter to Francis Smith) (Noted 125/37)

1746: Thomas Hayle sells 100 acres (£13 – mortgage?) to John Shickle (128/54)

1749: Mary Hayle, widow of Samuel Hayle ref Grant Dower

1750: Mary Hayle, widow of Samuel to John Shickle all of Clarendon – Grant Dower. (139/129)

1754 Landholders:
Hayle, William, St. Andrew 53, St. Thomas in the East 1500, Portland 500, St. George 880, Total 2933
Hayle, Henry, Vere 200
Hayle, George, Vere 40
Hayle, Ann, Clarendon 151
Hayle, Richard deceased, Clarendon 354
Hayle, Samuel, Clarendon 1185
Hayle, Thomas, Vere 20

1756: Grace Bowman sells to Nevil 150 of 300 acres willed to her by Samuel Nevil Hayle (163/126)

Sinclair Deed Timeline

1712-13: George Sinclair of St James & St Andrew land deeds.
1724: John Sinclair, Gent, of St Catherine buys slaves & plate.
1724: John Sinclair, Gent of St Catherine, buys slaves & foot land in Port Royal.
1730: John Sinclair esq of St Elizabeth borrows against a slave
1730: John Sinclair esq of St Elizabeth buys 30 acres of Ruinate Plantation

A common form of secondary community, called "ruinate," is a thorn thicket, or, under moderate cutting and grazing, a thorn savannah. After invasion of pioneer weeds on denuded land, secondary invaders come in and, finally, shrub and tree seedlings. Such ruinate may eventually become a thorn thicket or thorn savannah dominated by Acacia lutea. Most of the ruinate forests are located in the white limestone mountains of central and western Jamaica.

1730 abt: John Sinclair rents from Mathew Tennant – subject of deed to Peter Sinclair.

1732: John Sinclair granted 300 acres in Carpenter’s Mountains in St Elizabeth (adjoins Joshua Tennant).

1732: Nevil Hayle sells land in Vere to John Sinclair of St Elizabeth.
1736-9: Deed with brother Peter re lands rented from Joshua Tennant’s execs.
Describes 5 parcels of land – 1750 acres
1739: John & Priscilla Sinclair sell 400 acres in Vere – lands described.
1740-41: John Sinclair dies.

1754 Landholders:
Sinclair, Peter, Vere 300
Sinclair, John Hayle, St. Elizabeth 437
Sinclair, John Hayle, Vere 1580
Sinclair, Priscilla, St. Catherine 25, Vere 200, St. John 20, Tot 245
Anderson, John, St. Andrew 250

1755: John Hayle Sinclair buys land from Thomas Durrant
1764: Priscilla Sinclair dies
1765: JHS rents 21 slaves to JJ Swaby for £5 for 7 weeks
1765: JHS sells land etc to Burtons & Sinclairs. Part of land from Thomas Durrant.
1765: JHS dies.

Wright Deed Timeline

1670: Landholders: Robert Wright 100 acres Clarendon
1675: Elizabeth Wright Grant in Vere.
1686: Robert Wright leases 25 acres in Vere + negroes
1693: Robert Wright takes mortgage on in St Elizabeth
1693: Andrew Wright, bricklayer, leases land in Vere for 7 years
1694: Robert Wright buys land in St Jago
1699: Andrew Wright leases land in Vere (probably same as 1693)
1703: Andrew Wright & Phillip Edmond granted land
1710: Phillip Edmond dies about here.
1711: Rev George Wright leases Glebe land (ref 51/49).
1712: Andrew Wright leases land in Vere – Indigo.
1712: Andrew Wright dies, widow Rachel.
1713: Rachel Wright, widow of Andrew, discharges debts
1714: John Wright of Clarendon will, to son John.
1714: Nathaniel Wright of St E sells 2 acres in Lacovia
1714: Robert Wright sells 300 acres to buy back in 1 yr.
1714: Nathaniel Wright buys plot in Lacovia

1742: Robert Wright passes land in Clarendon to Judith Theobald – as executor?
1744: Barzilla Wright buys land originally pat to John Chambers snr.
1746: Robert Wright sells land in St E – mortgage or estate settling?
1748: Robert Wright of St E will & Inventory – is this the correct one??.
1749: Francis Wright of St Elizabeth, planter sells to John Wallen 1 negro.
1749: John Chambers & Francis Wright enter into partnership.
1750: John Wright of Clarendon buys land in Smoakey Hole (Pat John Hayle)
1750: Mary Wright (of Vere, wid of Humphrey Styles) buy slaves.
1752: John Chambers dies (ref to his will in 1749 deed).
1752: William Wright, son of Barzilla, sells land in Westmoreland.
1752: Andrew Wright born
1754 Landholders:

Wright, John, St. Mary 700
Wright, Mary, Vere 88
Wright, Joseph, St. Elizabeth 550, Vere 27, Tot 577
Wright, Barzilla, Westmoreland 75
Wright, James Cooper, St. Elizabeth 776
Wright, Francis, Vere 26
Wright, Robert, St. Elizabeth 550, Clarendon 100, Vere 44, Tot 694
Dunston, George, Westmoreland 1200
Dunston, John, St. Catherine 300, St. Andrew 65, Total 365
Chambers, Jacob, Westmoreland 158
Chambers, Ephraim, Westmoreland 525
Chambers & Pinto, Hanover 500
Chambers, Edward Senr., Hanover 920
Chambers, William, Hanover 400
Chambers, Edward, Hanover 20
Chambers, John, St. Catherine 582, Westmoreland 888, St. Thomas in the Vale 790, Total 2260

1755: 161/130 John Howell to Francis Wright Lease – no copy yet
1756: Peter Chambers & Francis Banks sell negroes to Francis Wright
1756: Francis Wright & Susannah convey lands to Robert Clark, FW use for life.

1758: Francis Wright Inventory

1760: Francis Wright 2^nd Inventory due to wife’s death.
1766: Joseph Wright of Vere inventory.
1782: Andrew Wright to Susannah Rose, Sa Neg – no copy
1783: Andrew Wright to Peter Neath et al, Mortgage – no copy
1785: Andrew Wright to George Netherwood, Con Slaves – no copy

1790: Andrew Wright marries Elizabeth Pusey.
1806: Andrew Wright dies England.

5.

WRIGHT FAMILY GENERAL

This section includes miscellaneous information on Wrights and other related families such as Cohen and Roberts.

Land Grants

Bazill Wright was granted land in several parcels around Lacovia, St Elizabeth in about 1674. There is no indication that Bazill is related to our Wrights, but may be an ancestor of the St Elizabeth Wrights and Cooper Wrights.

St Elizabeth & Vere Parish Records:

General Wright/Booth Information:
There is no obvious relationship between the extensive Wright family in the Parish Records and our branche(s), but the main lines are shown below.

(St E. index 1707-1800: 1224314. Copy Records: 1368561)

2. St Elizabeth Wrights:

At first sight, there appear to be two distinct Wright families in St Elizabeth: the Cooper Wrights and descendants of Bazil (and various spellings) Wright. However, Bazil Wright was granted land around Lacovia in the 1670’s and the Cooper Wrights also later owned land there, so there is a good chance that they were both the same family.
The St Elizabeth Wrights were probably not related to Andrew Wright of Vere, but could may have been related to Rebecca Dunston Wright, though the Dunston name makes that unlikely.

Deeds: 137/47, 1749, Henry Wright, son of Nathaniel, sold 10 acres to James Andrews.

Cooper Wright

From PR & VLO,
James Cooper Wright married Ann Burt, St Elizabeth, 16/8/1741 (PR), Ann born 1726, Mrs Ann buried Lacovia 1/8/1789.
Probably son of Nathaniel Wright (St Elizabeth group)
James Cooper Wright bur Lacovia 11/10/1791 (St E PR)
James Cooper Wright and Ann had issue:
(seems a long time, were there more or different Anns &/or James)
No record of James's birth.
1754: Wright, James Cooper, St. Elizabeth 776 acres (JFS).

M.I. of Jamaica (hardback)

Lacovia churchyard:
#1738 Ann Wright b 12[ ] 1726, d. 1789
          PR shows Mrs Ann bur 1/8/89
      Ann Wright               d. 1792.
          PR shows Miss Ann bur 11/1/1792

1/1. William Burt Wright born St E, ch. 2/1/1742

Parents: James Cooper Wright & Ann (probably correct - 1st son)
James Wright esq of Shetton Hall Estate, Vere, died 14/9/1806
Mrs Ann died 1/8/1789 at Lacovia, b 1726. (tombstone still there), was this his mother?
Major, St Elizabeth Militia, William B. Wright.
1784: St E. Militia: Col. 1787 Major.

Lieutenants:

Andrew Bromfield

Charles Wright

Robert Wright

William Burt Wright bur Lacovia 5/2/1796
Mrs Frances Wright bur Lacovia 11/9/1800.

Married: Frances
Of Enfield, St Elizabeth & Manchester (boundaries moved).

Issue, ch St E.:
2/1. James Cooper Wright b 25/10/1776 ch 31/7/1777.

Died 2/5/1806 Lacovia.

2/2. Ann Wright b 25/10/1778, ch 8/10/1780 Hannover,

dau of WBW & Frances of St Elizabeth. (PR)

2/3. Frances Petgrave Wright, b 10/10/1779, ch 8/10/1780, Hannover

dau of WBW & Frances of St Elizabeth. (PR)

2/2. William Burt Wright b 18/7/1782.

Married 11/3/1817, Frances Brooks (d. before 1829, sister of George) at Shaftston Pen (outside Savanna la Mar) in Westmoreland, he of Kingston. He died 20/2/1821, drowned in bathroom. Buried in Kingston Church, referred to as Merchant of Kingston. Shaftston Pen was house of Philip Pishoch(??). In WBW’s will, she is referred to as Frances Wright Wright.
In Slave registrations 1826, William Wright was "guardian to his dau Francis Brook Wright" with 1 female slave.
His estate owned Enfield Pen in 1824 with 190 slaves and no stock (167 & 23 in 1826).
Will shows wife Francis, Brothers Ezekiel & Robert Benstead,
Sister Ann Francis. Signed 8/12/1818, Codicil 13/12/18, proved London 10/8/1821, administration in 6/2/1829 Frances was deceased by then.
Wife remarried Thomas James, who was appointed guardian for H Frances Wright until 21.
A William Burt Wright owned Enfield (103/16) in 1815.
Extract from Fisher's Colonial Magazine, 1842:
CLIFTON, Rev. George Hill Rector of Rippie and Queen-Hill, Worcestershire, to Frances, only child of the late W.B. WRIGHT, Esq. of Enfield, in the Island of Jamaica, on 16th August, at St. John's, Paddington [Middlesex, England]. Vol. 1, No. 2, page 253
JG 27/3/1813: Arrivals with convoy:
27/3/1813, in the Contest, Humphrey Ewing & William Burt Wright esqrs, Mrs Tilly and Mr Walker.
JG 7/8/1813: For sale, Vauxhall estate, St Elizabeth, 2000 acres... Apply Kingston William Burt Wright, Attorney to proprietor.

Brooks of St Elizabeth – Pedigree:
Frances Brooks married 11/3/1817 William Burt Wright in Westmoreland (brother of Sarah Tharp P Wright). He died 20/2/1821 aged 30.
Will of George Brooks legacy to Ann Sherman, widow of Nich. Sherman and other daus of Mary Powell, free mulatto "who lives with me" "each a negro woman" ....

3/1. Helen Frances Wright

Gentleman’s Magazine (JFA):
August 16th. (1842) At Paddington, the Rev. George Hill Clifton, Rector of Ripple and Queenhill, Wore, to Helen-Frances, only child of the late W. Burt Wright, esq. of Jamaica.

2/3. Sarah Thorpe Pelgrave Wright

(Petgrave in other sources VLO) born 13/6/1784 St E.
Married George Brooks (22/5/1783-27/6/1832) of Burnt Ground & Blenheim, 13/4/1807 in Southampton. Jamaica, died 13/6/1855-7, Snowden, Jamaica.

3/2. Elizabeth Frances Brooks

b 15/7/1808, Burnt Ground. St E.

3/3. George Brooks, born 3/12/1809, Blenheim, Vere.
3/4. Nicola Brooks born 11/5/1815, died 12/7/1815 at sea.
3/5. Sarah Brooks born 26/9/1816, died 6/10/1816, London.
3/6. Charlotte Augusta Brooks

born 14/12/1817, 41 Dorset St, Portman Sq.

2/4. Robert Benstead Wright b 23/2/1786,

died 19/11/1820 (VLO).
Married: Nicola.
MI of Jamaica:
Manchester, Mandeville Parish Church:
Tablet: Robert B Wright, M.D. died 19 November 1820 and buried at Kensworth in his 33rd year. Erected by his widow Nicola.

Snowden, St David’s Church:
Nicola Eliza Wright, eldest daughter of R.B. Wright and Nicola Wright of Kensworth, died 20 May 1835 aged 21

His estate owned Kenilworth Pen (Manchester) 1824 with 85 slaves (1815 45/12, 1826, 85& 3) & possibly 10 slaves & 4 stock in St E. May have married Nicola, dau of James Walton (ref painting inscription, ref Michael Wallis email, 2/2007[vi]).

Jam PR St E. has a possibility:
3/1. Buchan Warren Wright, b 18090806, ch 18100218.

parents: Robert Benstead & Nicole his wife, @ church

3/2. William Burt Wright, b 18120720, ch 18130305.

parents: Robert Benstead & Nicole his wife, @ church.

3/3. Nicola Eliza Wright, b abt 1814, died 20/5/1835 (MI Jamaica)

2/5. John McLean Wright b 13/4/1788, bur @ Lacovia 16/8/1793 (St E PR),

of Lacovia.

2/6. Edward Wright ch. 3/2/1791.
2/7. Ezekiel Wright, b 26/11/1792, ch 22/1/1795,

(planter of Trelwaney parish (brother WBW will, 1822).

2/8. Anna Frances Wright b 2/7/1795.

In England in 1822, left £500 in will of brother WBW.

1/2. Mary Frances Wright, b 10/6/1760 ch 31/7/60, St E.
1/3. Robert Bansford Wright b 15/12/1762 ch 29/1/63 St E.

Partner: Jean Kentish, free mulatto.
2/1. Mary Wright, born 7/4/1788, ch 13/1/1789.
2/2. Ann Frances Wright ch. 4/8/1789

(Miss Ann bur Lacovia 11/1/1792, tombstone still there).

2/3. Nathaniel Wright, ch. 15/7/1791
2/3. Robert Benstead Wright, born 23/4/1793, died 9/1798, St E

(VLO) Also in The Columbian Magazine or Monthly Miscellany," the first number of which appeared in June, 1796. It was printed and published by William Smart of Church Street, Kingston

3/1. William Burt Wright, b 20/7/1812, St E PR

Died 9/1798 In St. Elizabeth's, Robert Benstead Wright, Esq

Bazill Wright

D. 1747 (will), Westmoreland
Uncle: Jacob Chambers (dcd bef 1747)
Was this the one granted land in about 1674 or more likely a son of that Bazil Wright.
Issue from his will:
1/1. Edward Wright

Issue, of Edward & Ann Wright, St Elizabeth PR:
2/1. John Magitta? Wright, 30/11/1756, Edward & Ann Thompson
2/1. Mary Chambers Wright: b 5/5/1758 ch 26/12 St E, ex Edward & Ann PR
2/3. Ann Wright, 9/8/1760
2/4. Edward Wright 9/12/1762

1/2. Christopher Wright.

Issue of Christopher & Rachel Wright, Westmoreland PR:
2/1. Mary Wright, 4/1/1740
2/2. Barracilla Wright: 30/11/1751
2/3. Elizabeth Wright: 5/3/1753
2/4. Rachel Wright: 22/4/1756, abt 3 months old.
2/5. Daughter Wright 9/8/1758

1/3. William Wright

Westmoreland Also, seems a long span:
Ann   17650306    17651107    Christopher Rachel
William     17661222    17670313    Christopher Rachel
Thomas      17680912    17690622    Edward      Rachel
Jane Godwin 17670112    17700123    Christopher Rachel
Barzilla James    17711016    17720107    Edward      Rachel
Margaret    17740930    17750420    Edward      Rachel

Others from PR:
John Wright: 30/9/1731 ex ?? & Wife
Rachel Judith Wright: 8/8/1756 ex Joseph & Elizabeth, St E.
Christopher Bernard Wright: b 19/9/1764 ch 10/4/1765 ex William & Ann
Robert Wright: b 22/10/1786 ex John & Ann
Edward Wright: b 13/7/1787 ex John & Elizabeth

Mary Wright, 9/1790, d of Andrew W by a negro.
Lewis, 12/8/1795                ) ex Andrew W & Elizabeth Pables
Mary Chambers 12/7/1799         )        (both white)

Edward Wright m Elizabeth Sables 14/1/1800 by banns both OTP St E.
Elizabeth Sables ch 21/3/1794 aged abt 21. St E.

Descendants of William Rhodes Petgrave Wright
1. William Rhodes Petgrave Wright was born Abt. 1835.

Married Charlotte Maria Moxam 2/3/1860 in St. E. by banns. She was born Abt. 1835. (JFS)

1861: Planter of Watchwell, St. Elizabeth
Issue: William Wright and Charlotte Moxam:
2/1. Hubert Ezekiel Wright, b. 12/10/1860, St E.
1861, Watchwell

1754 Property ownership:
      Wright, Barzilla, Westmoreland 75
      Wright, Joseph, St. Elizabeth 550, Vere 27, Tot 577
      Wright, Mary, Vere 88
      Wright, Robert St E 550, Clarendon 100, Vere 44
      Wright, John St Mary 700
      Tomlinson, Thomas, Westmoreland 7, St. E, 500, Tot 507

Misc Information:
Maria Wright, negro belonging to Rebecca Wright baptised 8/6/1794

Reference to Marroon Negroes (rebels) William Wright & Hutcheson Maitland, Lacovia 11/7/1775.

Published in Jamaica Gazette, 1794:
John Wright as superintendant of the Hanover workhouse.

In 1813, a John Wright was one of the named officials at St Elizabeth Races, 13/11/1813 at Lacovia.

Caribbeana by Vere Langford Oliver (1910):

Will in PCC (Jamaica) 1805 Reb(ecca) Wright 484 Nelson.

Vol 4 - Extracts from the Columbian Magazine
1797 Nov: died at Golden Grove Estate (Trelawney) Mr Robert Maitland, millwright.
1797 Sept: died at Falmouth, Mr William Sinclair, shopkeeper.
1799 July: married Robert Sinclair, esq, to Miss Mary Herriott.
1796 Dec: Alex. Wright died at Palmetto Grove, St Mary's
1798 Sept: James Wright married Miss Redwas in Vere.
1798 Sept: Robert Benstead Wright esq, St Elizabeth.
Vol 5: nil
Vol 6: From Family Bible of Sarah Tharp Petgrave Brook, (now in possession of Miss Mabel Nembhart, 1918).
Entries: GB born 22/5/1781, SB born 13/6/1784
          Married 19/6/1807, Southampton, J.
Elizabeth Frances Brooks b 15/7/1808, Burnt Ground. St Elizabeth
George Brooks, born 3/12/1809, Blenheim, Vere.
Nicola Brooks born 11/5/1815, died 12/7/1815 at sea.
Sarah Brooks born 26/9/1816, died 6/10/1816, London.
Charlotte Augusta Brooks born 14/12/1817, 41 Dorset St, Portman Sq.
Died Robert Benstead Wright, brother 19/11/1820
Died 20/2/1821(?) William Burt Wright, drowned in Bathroom.

(MI for Jamaica, Kingston Parish Church, gives: William Butt(as transcribed) Wright esqr, late Merchant of Kingston, obt 20 February 1821, Aet 30, Erected by his wife.)

MI for Kingston also: Wright, Alexander, died 30/6/1864, aged 23.
                        Wright, Susanna died 15/5/1857 aged 90.

St Catherines Cathedral:
Children of John & Ann Wright, Robert born 1786, Mary Frances born 1791, Edward born 1790, died 1792.

Booths

1/1. John Gaul Booth, died 14/1/1807, bur in churchyard in Vere.

Rachel Judith Wright ch 8/8/1756 of Joseph & Elizabeth, St Elizabeth.
The Farm Coffee Plantation was probably his (see son JGB below). JG Booth appears on the 1804 map at the Eastern end of Carpenters Mountains, Vere, towards Milk River – 2 pens, one by sixteen mile gully.
She was probably the Rachel Judith whose 3 children by John Gaul Booth are included below: it is probable that the rest were also hers: for a possible connection with Andrew Wright see his entry.
Issue of John Gaul Booth, Vere PR:
2/1. George Booth, b 14/12/1773 - by Rachel Judith
2/2. William Wright Booth, ch 24/1/1777
2/3. John Gaul Booth, ch 17/7/1780

Issue of JGB & Rebecca Weakland:
Of these, Josephine & Rebecca were born at The Farm Coffee Plantation, Carpenters Mtns.
3/1. George Hayler Booth ch 6/1/1806
3/2. Josephine Wright Booth b 18080506, ch 18110723, bur 27/11/1813 dau of John Gaul & Rebecca (? AM transcription) (all PR)
3/3. Rebecca Mary Booth, b 18100708, ch. 18110723
3/4. John Gaul Booth, b. 18131125

2/4. Samuel Booth, ch 19/2/1782

Married Isabel Sarah Farquar, 13/4/1800, St E. She a widow.

2/5. George Booth, ch 28/12/1784
2/6. Henry Booth, ch 5/6/1785

Married 24/1/1801 Elizabeth Scott @ Serpentine River nr Mill River dau of Watton(?)

2/7. Robert Wright Booth, ch 2/10/1790
2/8. Sarah Godlan Booth, ch 8/8/1792 - by Rachel
2/9. Frances Wright Booth, b. 18/4/1796,

ch 18/4/1796 - by Rachel Judith.

Brooks Family

Brooks of Jamaica.*

George Brooks the elder of the parish of St Elizabeth and Island of Jamaica, Esq. Will dated 3 March 1748. To my wife Eliz. £200 currency per annum, 18 slaves, chaise, and six horses and her riding horse during her life, also 128 acres which I bought of Col. Norwood Witter, Esq., the use of my dwelling house and 80 acres which I bought of Thomas Wharton, furniture, provisions, and 20 heifers. My dau. Anne Williams, wife of Lewis Williams, Esq., £500 c. to be paid out of Fra. Smyth, Esq., his bond to Richard Crutcher dated 12 Oct. 1745. My dau. Cath. Smyth, wife of Fra. Smyth, Esq., £200 c. My dau. Eliz. Brooks the moiety of Lucock Griffen his bond for £1400 c. dated 26 Sept. 1748 at marriage or 21, and 3 negro girls. My dau. Bonella Brooks the other moiety and 3 negro girls at marriage or 21. All my children to be maintained till they receive their portions. My son George Brooks 100 acres. I purchased of George Baxstead, Esq., and wife in Santa Cruz, also a parcel of 505 acres and one of 60 acres in Santa Cruz I bought of John and William Turner and wives, also the lands I bought of John Vaughan and wife in Santa Cruz, also 40 acres in Santa Cruz I bought of Benjamin Rushton, also 100 acres out of the Run I escheated in the name of Thomas Edwards, also a moiety of my lands in Mannattree Valley on the W. side of Carpenter Mountains called Cedar Valley, also 100 acres part of 300 acres in Santa Cruz patented by Sam. Brooks butting on Sam. Brooks, Sam. Rushton, Thomas Edwards, James Powell, Short Hills, Thomas Rushton, and Benjamin Rushton.

My son Sam. Brooks my dwelling house on Burnt Savanna Mountains patented in the name of John Brooks, also the land there I bought of John Tho. Picton (?), also 180 acres there patented in the name of George Brooks, also the moiety of 300 acres patented by George Jackson, also the moiety of 300 a, patented in the name of George Brooks, also the moiety of my lands in Well Savannah called Cubitaire (?) I purchased of Norwood Witter, Esq.

My son John Brooks 5 acres on which his house stands which I bought of George Wharton and is patented in the name of Hugh Davis at Turney Hog Hole, also 300 a. adjoining patented in the name of Chr. Brooks, also 200 a. purchased by Benjamin Rushton butting one side on Sam. Brooks and the other side on John Brooks, Walker Burke, Thomas Edwards, and John Parris, also 200 a. out of the two runs patented by John Brooks and Sam. Brooks, also the moiety of a run of land patented by Robert Sadler, which I purchased of sundry persons, lying between Essex Valley and Manatree Valley.

My s. Chr. Brooks two parcels of land, one of which I bought of John and Wm. Turner and wives, patented by Thomas Davis for 300 a., but by a recent survey of Fra. Walters 436 a., at Grassy River butting on Black River, the other piece of 330 a. patented by Thorp which I bought of. Joseph Croomer (?) adjoining the other parcel, also the remaining moiety of the lands at Mannattree Valley and Cedar Valley, the other part I having bequeathed to my s. Geo. B., also 100 a. I escheated in the name of Thomas Edwards, also 100 a., part of 300 a., in Santa Cruz patented by Sam. Brooks, and of which I have bequeathed 100 a. to my s. Geo. B.

My s. Tho. Brooks the remaining moiety of 300 a. patented by Geo. Jackson, the other moiety I having bequeathed to my s. Sam B.. also the remaining moiety of 300 a. in the name of Geo. B., the other moiety being bequeathed to my s. Sam. B., also 300 a. patented by Geo. B., Jr, butting on the said two runs, also 105 a. patented in the name of James Powell, two sides of which are adjoining to Geo. B., Jr. part of a run I bought of James Powell, also the remaining moiety I bought of Norwood Witter in Well Savannah called Cubitaire.

My s. Francis Brooks the remaining part of the two runs, one of which is patented in the name of Sam. B., at the Seven Corners, and the other patented .in the name of John B., also 265 a. patented by James Powell, part of a parcel I bought of James P., also 100 a. at Santa Cruz, being the remaining part of the 300 a.

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* Copies of these wills were made for Miss M. Nembhard by Mr. F. Judah. I have made the following abstracts, but the handwriting being difficult to read some names are doubtful.

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patented by Sam. B., and of which I have bequeathed 100 acres apiece to my sons George and Chr., also 72 acres on Burnt Savannah butting on Rocky Mountains, James Powell, Richard Fitzhugh, and unsurveyed, also the remaining moiety of the land between Mannattree Valley and Essex Valley patented by Robert Sadler (?). A house to be erected on each allotment when my youngest son Francis is 18. Stock leased of George Wharton and in co-partnership with Elizabeth Sadler, widow. All residue to my six sons. My wife Eliz. Executrix, and my sons when 20 executors. In the presence of Archibald Doig, Francis Noke, Charles Sheldon Cole.

Codicil:- 10 March 1749. Daus. Elizabeth Brooks and Bonella Brooks to have their portions made up to £1000 currency apiece. In the presence of William Bennett, Francis Noke, Charles Sheldon Cole.

Sworn by Fra. Noke and C. S. Cole,: 31 Nov.1750, before William Yates (?) and Fra. Smith. Recorded in Libro 28, fo. 18. Entered 21 Nov. 1750.

George Brooks* of the parish of St Eliz., county of Cornwall, Island of Jamaica, Esq. Will dated 10 April 1779. To my mother Eliz. B. an annuity of £50 c. To a free mulatto woman called Mary Powell who lives with me an annuity of £20 c. and provisions, furniture, plate, china, &c., 7 slaves, and at her death to Jane Coles, dau. of Mary Powell. To Ann Sherman, widow of Nicholas Sherman, and to Jane Coles, Mary Brooks, Martha Brooks, Priscilla Brooks, Ruth Brooks, daus. of Mary Powell, each a negro woman, and if any die under 21 to survivors. To Jane Coles £700 c. within 2 years. To Ann Sherman, Mary B., Martha B., Priscilla B., and Ruth B. £700 c. each on 7 July 1791 with interest or at marriage. To James Brooks, Richard B., Joseph B., Edward B., John B., sons of Mary Powell, each a negro man at 21. To James and Richard B. each £100 c. yearly until 7 July 1791. Joseph B., now under the care of Mr Thomas Gowland, merchant in London, to be educated and £100 c. a year on leaving school until 7 July 1791. Similar provision for Edward and John B. until 7 July 1791, when John will be 21, and £300 each for apprenticeship. To my nephew John B., s. of my brother John B., and my nephew George B. and Chr. B., sons of my bro. Chr. B., all my interest in those lands my father left to my brothers Sam. B. and Thomas B., and who died without issue and slaves. To Jane Coles those 2 parcels of land in Santa Cruz which I purchased of Mrs. Eliz. Brooks. To my friends Thomas Chambers and John Harriott, both of the parish of St Eliz., Esqrcs, Dr. John Fairbairn, and Richard Huggins Read of the p. of Vere, Esq., all my lands and slaves and all personal estate on trust as to those 2 pieces of land at Santa Cruz left me by my father, one piece whereof was patented by Ben. Rushton for 40 acres, and the other of 60 acres patented in the name of Tho. Davis, whereon my dwelling house stands, to permit Mary Powell to occupy it for her life and to manage the rest and pay annuities and legacies and on 7 July 1791 convey to my said 3 nephews all those lands left me by my father, and convey to my 2 nephews Geo. and Chr. B. those two parcels of land I purchased of Fra. Gale, Esq., and Geo. French of 1000 acres called the Cod Pen, afterwards known as the Hounslow estate, to manumit my slave Harry, and pay all residue to the 5 sons of Mary Powell, and I empower my trustees to sell that piece of land I purchased of Geo. French called Ridge Penn. Trustees to be Executors and Guardians.

Witnessed by Thomas Myers, E. M. ...., Alexander Ricketts.

Sworn by Alex. Ricketts 20 Sept. 1777 before William Mitchell. Recorded in Libro 44, fo. 162.

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* Miss Nembhard has finely-painted miniatures of testator and his nephew Chr. B.

Christopher Brooks of the parish of St Eliz., co. of Cornwall, I. of Jamaica, planter. Will dated 17 March 1769. To my wife Deborah B. 20 acres which I bought of my mother Eliz. B. just above the house which did belong to Mr Joseph Cramer, and a house to be erected thereon agreeable to the plan I delivered to Mr John Goodfellow, carpenter, also my dwelling house at Grass River, household furniture, 6 horses, my kittareen, 10 negroes and 5 children, £200 c. a year. To my four daus., Eliz., Mary, Ann, and Cath. B., each £1500 c. at 21 or marriage, and a negro girl, and if any marry contrary to the approbation of my wife 1 shilling. only. To my s. George B. all residue. If all my children die without issue then those negroes which did belong to Thomas Hay, Esq., deceased, may be appropriated agreeable to his will, and the residue of my est. to be 1/3 to my brother Geo. B., 1/3 to my brother Fra. B., and 1/3 to my brother John B.'s two sons, Geo. and John B. My friend John Harriott, Esq., my brother George B., Esq., and my wife Deborah Executors and Guardians. Wit. by Thomas Alison, Thomas Wood Dod, Sally Audley. Sworn 5 Feb. 1771 by T. W. Dod, planter, before John Ramsay.

Codicil.-21 March 1769. If my wife die my daus. to have the house and £100 paid to a good woman to live with them. Produce to be consigned to Messrs. Morse and Smith Meickle in London. Witness by Tho. Chambers, Tho. Powell, Tho. Alison. Sworn 5 Feb. 1771 by T. Chambers. Recorded in Libro 39, fo. 161. (Transcript, fo. 310.)

John Brooks of the parish of St Eliz., co. Cornwall, I. of Jamaica, Esq. Will dated 9 May 1797. To my wife Eliz. £200 c. per annum exclusive of our marriage settlement, mv dwelling house at Burnt Ground, plate, furniture, carriages and horses, and 8 slaves. My son Geo. B. £2000. My daus. Ann Virgo Brooks, Elizabeth Raby Brooks, and Frances Brooks, £1000 each at 21 or marriage. All residue to my s. Geo. B. My wife and friends Philip Pinnock of the p. of Westmoreland, and William Killatt Hewitt of St Eliz., Esq., Executors. Wit, by A. Smith, James Dick, Robert Muschett. Sworn by Robert Muschett 5 Jan. 1802, before Joseph James Swaby. Recorded in Libro 67, fo. 236.

George Brooks of the parish of Manchester, co. Middlesex, I. of J. Will dated 10 June 1831. My debts heavy and W.I. property much depreciated. 1/2 estate to my wife Sarah Tharpe Petgrave Brooks for life, then equally among my chn, Geo. B., Eliz. Nembhard, Charlotte Augusta B., and Burnella Morgan B. The other 1/2 to my said chn. To my wife and chn my dwelling house and 30 to 40 acres around it at Blenheim, 8 slaves. My wife, my friend Edmund Fra. Green, Esq., of L., and my s. George, Executors and Guardians. The half of Chester estate in Trelawny which my uncle F. V. Dunn gave me after the decease of Mrs. Dunn I give to my s. according to his will. Witnessed by F. Kingston, George Vezey, John Kingston. Sworn by J. K. 19 Nov. 1832, before William Nembhard. Recorded in Libro 113, fo. 76. Entered 26 Nov. 1832.

ROBERTS FAMILY

George Roberts married Rebecca Wright, Francis (1) Maitland's sister-in-law.
Information supplied by Donna (Campbell) Kenny, who descends from George Roberts by his second wife, Ruth Angell.
Full details of the Roberts Family
See Jamaica General for Silver Grove description and graves.

GEORGE ROBERTS

Other than George's marriages and the birth of his children we know nothing of him. No death recorded for him in the family bible. Yet most of the information on his children is listed there. I wonder if he died in England ? no will in Jamaica (or London PCC) for him either.

Married (1st), 2/11/1816 St John's at Hackney, London:

REBECCA WRIGHT

Daughter of Andrew Wright & Ruth Sinclair (see above).
Issue:
1/1. Edward Maitland Roberts

b Giddy Hall 15 Aug 1817 bapt St Giles, Camberwell 28 Aug 1818. Died Silvergrove 12 April 1888

1/2. William Allen Roberts

b Cobury Rd, London 23 Nov 1818 bapt St Giles, Camberwell 20 Dec 1818.
Married Mary Carter of Trelawny Ja, 17 Feb 1843

1/3. **Rebecca Roberts

b Alverstoke, Hants. 13 July 1820, bapt Alverstoke, Hampshire 26 Aug 1820 (her father listed as a 'gentleman') died Silvergrove, buried St Pauls (Balaclava Ja) 29 April 1852. Married Edward Angell Esq. Silvergrove 19 Feb 1844
** Baptized on the same day as Rebecca were 2 children belonging to William and Ann Roberts, he was listed as 'a Captain in the Royal Navy' I wonder if he was a brother of George?

1/4. Georgeanna Roberts

b Silvergrove 8 April 1822, bapt St Mark, Kennington, Ldn 6 July 1827 (her father listed as 'merchant')
(Note by AM: Ann (Wright) Maitland's ygst son bapt at St Mark 1825 and she died in Lambeth in 1833).

1/5. George Roberts b 1824-1825

George Roberts married (2nd):
27 Jan 1830 at Lookout, near St Pauls, Balaclava:

Ruth Angell

Born: 13/10/1792.
Parents: John Angell (died circa Nov 1793-Mar 1794) & Mary Wint
Siblings: Ann b. 1789, & John b. 14 Sept 1791,
John Angell left each child 1000 English pounds sterling.

Issue (all bapt 1840 Lookout, New Hall, Cowick Park):
1/6. Ruth Francis Roberts b Lookout 30 Oct 1830, died 7/9/1877.

Married, 8/11/1855:
Robert McDaniel. The McDaniels lived at "Mt Pleasant", St E.
2/1. Thomas McDaniel 13 Nov 1856 - 11 Mar 1911 (one of 7)

Married 21 Jun 1879:
Emma Clotilda Burrell 1 May 1850 - 11 Jul 1930
3/1. Robert Vernon McDaniel 6 Mar 1886 - 3 Oct 1959

(1 of 9)
Married:
Vera Sybil Burrell 4 May 1898 - 19 Sept 1977
4/1. Vera Olive McDaniel

Married: Donald Spence Campbell
5/1. Donna Rose Campbell (now Kenny), born 1946.

1/7. Mary Ann Roberts b Lookout, 29 Jan 1832
1/8. John Angell Roberts b Silvergrove 9 May 1833
1/9. Elizabeth Hester Roberts b Lookout 21 Jan 1834
1/10. girl b. Lookout Nov 1835-Dec 2
1/11. Emma Victoria Roberts b 9 June 1837

Married: Frederick Hendriks: The Hendriks at "Ivy Cottage" near Lookout.

Graves at Silver Grove (2002):
William Roberts, born 25/12/1841, married 31/10/1869, died 8/6/1896.
Wife and 7 children.
Rozelle Roberts (mother) born 15/11/1842, died 16/1/1926.
Edward Roberts born 12/1/1870, died 10/1881.
Clement Meikle, died 24/9/1958, aged 54.
Herwin Roberts, died 28/4/1956 aged 52
Millicent Roberts, died 2/4/1956 aged 22.
Ellen B Roberts, died 6/2/1960 aged 45.

Dictionary of Place-Names in Jamaica (extracts) Inez Knibb Sibley (Institute of Jamaica 1978).
Chew Magna, in St Elizabeth, near Balaclava, was named by the Roberts Family after the place in Keynsham, England from which they came.

7.

COHENS

The Cohen family is of interest because Rebecca Wright (Francis 1 Maitland's mother) made bequests in her will to nephews and nieces named Cohen and John Maitland's executor was Hyem Cohen in 1787.
There were many Cohens in the parish records of the early part of the 19thC, but there were none except for Hyman who were related to our family.
Hyem Cohen who died about 1805 was the father by Margaret Forbes, sister of Rebecca Wright, of four children, Henry, Alexander, Caroline and Catherine. His inventory was valued at £75426, of which £8765 was in slaves, £41067 was in the form of loan accounts to many local families. David Cohen, who was contemporary, was probably his brother.

Slaves Manumitted, 14/1/1825, Charles Wright, £80, Solomon Cohen

Parish Records, St Elizabeth

Cohen, Morris Joseph, b. 18070101, ch. 18090924 of David Cohen & Ann Thompson Reputed issue, she a negro.
Cohen, Elizabeth, ch: 17980303 of David Cohen & Catherine Smith She a Negro, ch abt 3 yrs

Cohen, Elinor Vassal b: 18140222, ch: 18141218 of Abraham S Cohen & Elizabeth Salmon, At Black River, she a quadroon.

Reputed Issue of David Cohen and Leah Wright:
Cohen Hyman 17881225 17910000
Cohen David 17921212 17930414
Cohen Henrietta        18060907 At Black River, a Mestise
Cohen Joseph           18071004 Adult negros at Black River
Cohen Thomas           18071004 Adult negros at Black River
Cohen Frederick H      18120922     Child of colour
Cohen James Benstead   18160505

Lear Wright bur churchyard St E 4/12/1812 aged 45.

Cohen David married 27/2/1715 Smith Mary Ann, he a mulatto, at the Rukes.

From Richard Lyman (descendant of Hyman below):
From Jewish Records.

Moses Cohen: (1734-1831):
1/1. Rebecca Cohen, married David Alexander.
1/2. Samuel Cohen, b. abt 1760, married Rachel Buzaglo.
1/3. Hyman Cohen: born 1761, Jamaica, died 27/2/1845, London

Married: Zepporah Isaacs (1769-5/1/1848), abt 6/1790, London
2/1. David Hyman Cohen: born abt 1805, died 28/4/1877.

Married, 1st: Unknown
Married, 2nd: 3/10/1860, Miriam Joseph, born 19/3/1820, died 16/3/1894, London.

1/4. Henry Cohen: (1762-1817), married Esther & maybe Hatty Levy.
1/5. Judah Cohen: (1768-1838), married Grace da Costa

Other PR:

St Elizabeth.

1/1. David Cohen: born Abt. 1763.

He met Leah Wright, born Abt. 1763.
2/1. Hyman Cohen, born December 25, 1788.

Bapt: August 07, 1791, St. Elizabeth (PR) "reputed son of"

1/1. Leah Cohen was born 1766.

Baptism: February 19, 1826, St. Elizabeth (PR) aged abt 60, Black Residence: 1826, Shacklock

Diana Cohen: born 1774, died October 1846. Aged 72.
Burial: October 1846, Cashew, St. Elizabeth (PR)

1/1. A. Cohen, born Abt. 1782.

2/1. Catherine Cohen, born October 03, 1807.

Baptism: August 28, 1808, St. Elizabeth (PR.): Mestize

1/1. Jacob Cohen was born Abt. 1782.

He met Ann Thompson. She was born Abt. 1782.
Occupation: 1809, Slave "belonging to Mary Hook", Negro
Child of Jacob Cohen and Ann Thompson is:
2/1. Morris Joseph Cohen, born January 01, 1807.

Baptism: September 24, 1809, Black River, St. Elizabeth (PR)
Fact: "reputed son"

1/1. Eleanor Cohen: born 1785, died March 1855, aged 70.

Burial: March 30, 1855, Comfort Hall, Manchester Register. (PR) Residence: 1855, Comfort Hall

1/1. Lewis Cohen was born 1785, died April 1855, aged 70.

Burial: April 15, 1855, Comfort Hall, Manchester (PR)
Residence: 1855, Comfort Hall, Manchester

1/1. Thomas Cohen was born Bef. 1789. Age: 1807, Adult,

Baptism: October 04, 1807, St. Elizabeth (PR), Free Negro

1/1. Abraham S. Cohen, born Abt. 1789.

Partner: Elizabeth Salmon, born Abt. 1789, Quadroon
2/1. Eleanor Vassal Cohen, born July 22, 1814.
Ch: December 18, 1814, St. Elizabeth (PR)

Descendants of David Cohen
1/1. David Cohen, born 1790. mulatto

Married Mary Ann Smith (b abt 1790) March 27, 1815 in St. Elizabeth (PR)
Marriage banns: 1815

1/1. Henry Cohen was born 1796,

died December 1846, Age: 50 years
Burial: December 17, 1846, New burial ground, Black River, St. Elizabeth
Occupation: 1846, Domestic
Residence: 1846, Black River, St. Elizabeth

1/1. James Cohen was born Abt. 1800.

He met Frances Sampson. She was born Abt. 1800.
Child of James Cohen and Frances Sampson is:
2/1. James Cohen, born 1825.,Bapt: 02/1/1831, Vere aged 6.: Quadroon

1/1. Mr. Cohen. A jew.

He met Ann McLean, Free quadroon
Children of Mr. Cohen and Ann McLean are (PR):
2/1. Rebecca Cohen, b. 1804, Bap: 13/9/1810, Trelawny age 6
2/2.. Mary Cohen, born May 25, 1808, Bap: 13/9/1810, Trelawny
2/3. James Cohen, born Feb 08, 1810, Bap: 13/9/1810, Trelawny

1/1. Henrietta Cohen

Baptism: September 07, 1806, Black River, St. Elizabeth (PR): Mestize

1/1. Joseph Cohen Bap.: 22/9/1807, St. Elizabeth (PR), Free Negro

1/1. Thomas Cohen was born Abt. 1810.

Occupation: 1838, Apprentice; 1850, Laborer
Residence: 1835, Stones Hope; 1838, Hope, Bet. 1847 - 1850, Marley Hill
He married Marley (Cohen). She was born Abt. 1810.
Name spelled Molly on Jessy's baptismal record, and Margaret on Mary Ann's.
Children of Thomas Cohen and Marley (Cohen) are:
2/1. Jessy Cohen, born Bef. August 09, 1835.

Baptism: August 09, 1835, Manchester

2/2. George Cohen, born Bef. July 21, 1838.

Age: July 1838, Infant

2/3. Eliza Cohen, born April 18, 1847.

Bap: June 13, 1847, Manchester

2/4. Thomas Swaby Cohen, born December 22, 1849.

Baptism: April 19, 1850, Manchester

2/5.. Mary Ann Cohen, born 25/10/1852.

Bap: 15/5/1853, Manchester

1/1. Edward Cohen: born Abt. 1811.

1836, Apprentice to Giddy Hall, St. Elizabeth
Married Eliza Harris (b abt 1811) September 25, 1836 in St. Elizabeth (PR), by Banns.
1836, Apprentice to Hodges, St. Elizabeth

1/1. Frederick Hambersley Cohen: born September 22, 1812,

Baptism: January 28, 1816, St. Elizabeth, child of colour.
Residence: 1840, Black River, St. Elizabeth
died Bef. April 30, 1843.
Married Ann Salmon (B abt 1815) 13/9/1840 in St. E (PR).
Residence: 1840, Gales Luana, St. Elizabeth
Residence (2): 1843, Lower Works
Marriage banns: 1840
2/1. Frederick Cohen, born April 26, 1841.
Baptism: April 30, 1843, St. Elizabeth. Father already deceased. (PR)

1/1. Henry Cohen was born Bef. December 18, 1814.

Baptism: December 18, 1814, St. Elizabeth (PR)
Fact: "belonging to Miss E. Salmon", Slave

1/1. Abraham Cohen, born Abt. 1816.

Married: Rose Anne Chranstone June 12, 1841 in St. E (PR.)
Banns 1841. She was born Abt. 1816.
1841, Abraham Coyen @ Cashew, St. Elizabeth
1841, Rose Chranstone @ Slipe, St. Elizabeth

1/1. James Benstead Cohen was born Bef. May 05, 1816.

Baptism: May 05, 1816, St. Elizabeth (PR)
Occupation: 1842, Saddler: Child of color
Residence: 1842, Middle Quarters, St. Elizabeth
He married Valeria Dennys Pight September 21, 1839 in St. Elizabeth (PR). She was born Abt. 1814, her Residence: 1839, St. Elizabeth
Marriage banns: 1839 Married by Revd. J. Kerr
Child of James Cohen and Valeria Pight is:
2/1. William Cohen, b. 05/11/1841, ch 20/2/1842, St. E.

1/1. Joseph Cohen was born Abt. 1824.

Occupation: 1849, Labourer
Residence: 1849, Retreat
He married Nancy Thomas. She was born Abt. 1824.
Child of Joseph Cohen and Nancy Thomas is:
2/1. Mary Eliza Cohen, b. 26/11/1849, Bap: 12/7/1850, Manchester (PR)

1/1. Harris Cohen was born Abt. 1825.

Naturalization: Bet. 1854 - 1860, Laborer
Residence: Bet. 1854 - 1860, Mony Musk
He met (1) Amelia Walters Bef. 1850. She was born Abt. 1825.
He met (2) Sarah Bennett Bef. 1859. She was born Abt. 1834.
Children of Harris Cohen and Amelia Walters are, Vere:
2/2. Lucretia Gardiner Cohen, b.14/8/1850, Baptism: 09/6/1854.
2/3 Mary Ann Cohen, born 16/12/1852. Baptism: 09/6/1854.
Child of Harris Cohen and Sarah Bennett is:
2/4. Susan Cohen, born June 15, 1859. Baptism: March 11, 1860.
Residence: 1860, Monymusk

1/1. George Cohen: born Abt. 1828.

Occupation: 1853, Laborer. Religion: 1853, Rock Hall
Married Diana (Cohen), born Abt. 1828.
2/1. Rosanna Gatain Cohen, born May 13, 1853.
Baptism: April 15, 1855, St. Elizabeth (PR)

1/1. Esther Cohen: born Bef. August 13, 1838.

Baptism: August 13, 1838, Manchester as infant (PR)
Residence: 1838, Quebec

David Cohen: born 1839.
Baptism: April 30, 1843, St. Elizabeth (PR) aged 3 1/2. Res: 1843, Lower Works

1/1. Elizabeth A. Cohen: born January 1848.

Bapt: May 14, 1848, Manchester (PR)

1/1. Elizabeth Cohen: born October 1855.

Baptism: April 09, 1856, St. Elizabeth (PR)

1/1. Charles Alfred Ernest Cohen born 1862.

Baptism: April 12, 1863, St. Elizabeth (PR.), aged 8 mths.

1/1. Leah W. Cohen was born August 03, 1837.

Baptism: May 13, 1838, St. Elizabeth (PR)
Residence: 1838, Spring Garden

1/1. Nathaniel Cohen was born June 20, 1842.

Baptism: November 13, 1842, Manchester (PR)
Residence: 1842, The Isle

1/1. Prudence Cohen was born March 1836.

Baptism: August 28, 1836, St. Elizabeth (PR)
Residence: 1836

1/1. Rebecca Cohen was born September 08, 1839.
Baptism: November 13, 1842, Manchester (PR)
Residence: 1842, Hill Side

1/1. Samuel Cohen was born Abt. 1841.

Occupation: Bet. 1867 - 1868, Planter,
Res: Bet. 1867 - 1868, Lincoln
He married Mary (Cohen). She was born Abt. 1841.
Children of Samuel Cohen and Mary (Cohen) are, Manchester:
2/1. Joseph Alexander Cohen, b 16/11/1866, Bap: 03/2/1867,
2/2. Mary Cohen, b. Bef. August 07, 1868, Bap: 07/11/1868,

1/1. Rachael Cohen was born June 1841.

Baptism: May 08, 1842, Vere (PR)
Residence: 1842, Kemps Hill

ASHKENAZI CONGREGATION ENGLISH AND GERMAN JEWS
KINGSTON, JAMAICA 1788-1905
REGISTER OF BIRTHS A - F

Cohen, Henry of Mordecai married Esther of Isaac, 24/12/1788
Cohen, Henry. Alexander 6/6/1789
Cohen, Henry. Isaac 22/7/1790
Cohen, Henry. Hyman 26/7/1791
Cohen, Henry. Fanny (Brine) 3/8/1792
Cohen, Henry. Abraham 22/-/1793
Cohen, Henry. Sarah 1/7/1795
Cohen, Henry. Rachel 25/2/1797
Cohen, Henry. Maria 20/5/1799
Cohen, Henry. Zipporah 26/4/1802
Cohen, Henry. Asher 4/8/1806

Cohen, Hyman. Andrew 7/10/1790
Cohen, Hyman, Alexander 6/10/1791
Cohen, Hyman. Fanny 24/1/1793
Cohen, Hyman. Judah 12/7/1794
Cohen, Hyman. Rachel 6/8/1795

Cohen, Judah of Mordecai married Grace of Aaron, 9/7/1794
Cohen, Judah. Andrew 20/4/1795
Cohen, Judah. Maria 20/5/1798
Cohen, Judah. Fanny 22/3/1799
Cohen, Judah. Rachel 17/7/1801

Cohen, Hyman Jr.
Henry Lindo 24/1/1817
Esther 21/7/1819
Henrietta Frances 16/3/1821
Philip 17/1/1823
Alexander 21/8/1824
Jessy 1/2/1827
Charles Albert 18/2/1829
& Rose. Adelaide Louisa 26/11/1830 born Spanish Town
& Rose. Eustace 3/12/1837 born Spanish Town

Cohen, Solomon M. Charlotte 33/12/1825

REGISTER OF MARRIAGES IN THE ASHKENAZI JEWISH CONGREGATION, KINGSTON, JAMAICA 1788-1897

Cohen, Henry of Mordecai; Esther of Isaac, 24/12/1788
Cohen, Jacob of David; Rachel of Barnet, 19/8/1789
Cohen, Solomon of David; Phila of Solomon, 17/3/1790
Cohen, Judah of Mordecai; Grace of Aaron, 9/7/1794
Cohen, Solomon of Michael; Hannah of Elias Gates, 2/3/1825
Cohen, Frederick of Hyman Jr.; Emily of David Davis, 16/3/1842

MARRIAGES OF THE SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION KINGSTON, JAMAICA
1805-1897
Cohen, Hyman; Miriam of Saul Davis 23/3/1864

Jamaica Gazette 18 October 1794
Tuesday came on the election of Wardens, Treasurer, and Vestrymen of the English and German Jews Synagogue: The Candidates were Messrs; Lazarus Alexander, Sampson Lucas, Solomon Levy, and Hyman Cohen, the two first of whom were declared duly elected; as were Mr. Judah Cohen, Treasurer; and Messrs. Joel Isaacs, John Brown, Joseph Ezekiel, Isaac Levy, and Leon Worms, Vestrymen.

OFFICERS OF HIS MAJESTY’S NAVAL-YARD AT PORT ROYAL, 1784/90:
Black River, Cohen & Hyman
Black River, Cohen David, 1796

St Elizabeth Militia, Foot, 1790, 1796
Quartermaster, Hyem Cohen

Gazette, Feb 16 1793:
In the Esther Lindo, from Portsmouth, Joseph Aguilar, Esq., Jacob Gutteres, Esq., Geo. Bartlet, Esq., Chas. Graham, Esq., Mrs. Graham and child, Miss Graham, Miss Hughes, Miss Dacosta, Miss Jacobs, Mr. Hyam Cohen, Dr. Hugh Munro, of the 62nd regiment, Mr. Charles Simms, Mr. Rogers, Mr. James Thompson, Mr. Doman, Mr.William Clueness, Mr. Barnet, Mr. Allwood, and Mr. Rivers

Persons leaving the Island, 9 March 1793.
Henry Cohen, Kingston

REGISTERS AND WILLS
Chapman to Cole

Descendants of David Cohen

1. David Cohen was born 1839. He married Georgiana [Ann] (Cohen). She was born Abt. 1838. Notes for David Cohen: It is not certain that this is the David Cohen that is husband of Georgiana.

More About David Cohen:
Age: April 1843, 3 1/2 years
Baptism: April 30, 1843, St. Elizabeth (Source: B0056 St. Elizabeth Parish Register III & IV, 1835-1859, IV, p. 146 #232.)
Occupation: Bet. 1864 - 1868, labourer
Residence: 1843, Lower Works
Residence (2): 1864, Luana
Residence (3): 1868, Gale's Luana

Children of David Cohen and Georgiana (Cohen) are:
2 i. Eleanor2 Cohen, born Bef. 1863.
Baptism: June 03, 1864, St. Elizabeth (Source: B0044 Jamaica Parish Register Baptism XVI & XVII, 1863-1871, XVI, p. 11 #330.)
3 ii. Ann Rebecca Cohen, born December 26, 1863.
Baptism: June 03, 1864, St. Elizabeth (Source: B0044 Jamaica Parish Register Baptism XVI & XVII, 1863-1871, XVI, p. 11 #331.)
4 iii. David Cohen, born February 11, 1868.
Baptism: October 16, 1868, St. Elizabeth (Source: B0045 Jamaica Parish Register Baptism XVIII and XIX, 1861-1871, XVIII, p. 183 #718.)

Patty Penford Act of Privilege

Heading:

An Act to Entitle Patty Penford of the parish of Saint Elizabeth a free Mulatto woman and Rebecca Wright and Margaret Forbes her Daughters and Francis Maitland the son of the said Rebecca Wright and Elizabeth Littlehales the Daughter of the said Margaret Forbes to the sum Rights and Privilidges with English Subjects born of White Parents under certain Restrictions.

Body:

Whereas the said Patty Penford Rebecca Wright Margaret Forbes Francis Maitland and Elizabeth Littlehales have been severally Baptized Educated and Instructed in the principles of the Christian Religion and in the Communion of the Church of England as by Law Established
And Whereas the said Patty Penford is Possessed of real and personal Estate in this Island to a very Considerable Value which she intends to bestow on the said Rebecca Wright Margaret Forbes and their Children the said Francis Maitland and Elizabeth Littlehales in such manner as to raise them above the Level of people of Colour in General but from the Unfortunate Circumstances of their Births the said Patty Penford being a Mulatto and her said daughters being Quadroons and their Children ?? they may be Subject and Liable to the same pains and penalties as free Mulattos who have no property altho’ the Children of the said Francis Maitland born of White woman and the Children of the said Elizabeth Littlehales begotten by White Man will be entitled by Law to all the Rights and Priviledges of White People
We therefore your Majesty’s Dutiful and loyal Subjects the Lieutenant Governor and Assembly of your Majesty’s Island of Jamaica do most humbly beseech you Majesty that it may be Enacted
And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same ?? ?? that the said patty Penford Rebecca Wright and Margaret Forbes and Elizabeth Littlehales and their Issue begotten by White Men and the said Francis Maitland and his Issue born of White Woman shall from hence forth be deemed and taken for free and Natural born Subjects of this Island and shall be tried and adjudged for all Crimes and Misdemeanours and Offences which they of either of them shall be hereafter charged with in the same manner as if they and every of them were free and Natural Subjects of Great Britain and on no other manner whatsoever and that they and every of them shall be entitled to have and Enjoy all Rights Priviledges Immunities and Advantages whatsoever as if they and every of them were born and Presented of White Ancestors and Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary in any Wise notwithstanding
Provided always that nothing in this Act shall be Construed or Understood to confer upon the said Patty Penford Rebecca Wright Margaret Forbes and Elizabeth Littlehales or their Issue or upon the said Francis Maitland any Power Capacity or Ability of giving Testimony against any White person or Persons in any Trials or Causes Civil or Criminal Except in Criminal Prosecutions for Robberies Assaults Batteries Breaches of the Peace or any Violence Committed against them or either of them
And Provided also that nothing in this Act contained shall be Construed to confer upon the said Francis Maitland any Power Capacity or Ability of Sitting or Voting either in the Council or Assembly of this Island or of holding or Enjoying any Office Civil or Military ore Serving as Juror or Vestryman or of Voting at any Election whatsoever
But that he shall be totally excluded therefrom anything herein contained to the Contrary notwithstanding
Passed the Assembly
the fourteenth day of December 1784
JW Haughton Speaker.

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William & Mary Lord planter of Clarendon sell for £35 to John Hayle planter of C.
Upon Dry River in C, bounding North on William Lord East on William Cock, SW on waste land, West on the river. Part of 75 acres patented to William Lord 15 Sept in 20^th year of Charles II

Dated 13 July & Ent 25 July 1671

Major General James Bannister:
Calender of State Papers 1670:
April 6. 169. Warrant to the Duke of York. Whereas Major James Bannister, late Governor of Surinam, having bought a vessel of 80 tons for the removal of his family and estate thence, in attending his Majesty's pleasure has kept the vessel six months at his great charge, it is his Majesty's pleasure that his Royal Highness deliver to said Major Bannister provisions for 15 men for six months, with ropes and a mainsail, to encourage him towards the voyage. 1 p. [Dom. Entry Bk., Chas. II., Vol. 25, p. 154 đ.]

April 6. 170. Warrant to the Commissioners of Ordnance. To deliver to Major James Bannister, late Governor of Surinam, six small guns, each weighing about 7 cwt., with their furniture, six barrels of powder, and a proportionable quantity of shot. 1/2 p. [Dom. Entry Bk., Chas. II., Vol. 25, p. 155.]

Nov. 6. 316. Commission appointing Major James Bannister Major-General of all the forces in the island of Jamaica, under the orders of the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. Also note of the provisions necessary for victualling his ship. Endorsed, Mr. Ranger's note for provisions and other necessaries for Major Bannister's vessel, and with notes by Williamson. 50l. or 60l.. given to Major Bannister for providing himself with these things. Two papers. 3 1/2 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXV., Nos. 84, 85.]

Nov. ? 317. Draft in Williamson's hand, with corrections, of the above commission to Major James Bannister. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXV., No. 86.]

Nov. ? 318. Copy of commission to Maj. Bannister, not so full, but to the same effect as the above. [Col. Entry Bk., No. 27, p. 84.]

Nov. 6. 319. Names of the persons agreed unto to be inserted in the commission and instructions for fetching off the English from Surinam, viz., Major James Bannister, Capt. Francis Yates, Thomas Stanter, Lieut. Henry Masey, Capt. James Maxwell, Lieut. Tobias Bateman, Capt. Christopher Reader, Henry Ayler, Master of the America, Richard Colvile, Master of the Dutch Flyboat, and John Ranger, Master of Major Bannister's Flyboat; any three to be a quorum, of whom Bannister, Yates, or Ayler to be one; to whom only the additional instructions (after shipping the English from Surinam) are to be directed, impowering Bannister (and in case of death or absence, Yates and then Ayler) to give orders to the masters of the two merchant ships. Lord Arlington promised to speak to the Duke of York about the instructions to the masters of the hired merchant ships. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXV., No. 90*.]

Nov. ? 320. Draft commission to Major James Bannister and others [names not given in this copy, see preceding] for removing the English and settling all disputes at Surinam. Refers to the Articles of Surrender of Surinam between Col. Wm. Byam and Admiral Abraham Crynsens, which were confirmed by the Treaty of Breda, and afterwards ratified by said Crynsens and others on 20/30 April 1668; also the orders of the States General of the 4th and 21st August past, to Commander Lichtenberge, Governor of Surinam [see ante, No. 219]. For the better execution whereof, and that all disputes may be fairly settled, his Majesty has appointed the aforesaid Commissioners to demand and treat with Commander Lichtenberge concerning the execution of all that has been agreed upon or granted to his Majesty's subjects in that Colony, particularly as to their liberty of departing thence with their slaves and goods. Draft, with corrections in the handwriting of Williamson, who has endorsed it, Minute, 1670. 4 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXV ., No. 87.]
Nov. 6.

Whitehall. 324. Instructions to Major James Bannister, Capt. Francis Yates, Thomas Santer, Lieut. Henry Masey, Capt. James Maxwell, Lieut. Tobias Bateman, Capt. Christopher Reader, Henry Ayler, Richard Colvill, and John Ranger, the King's Commissioners for bringing off from Surinam his Majesty's subjects, their families, and estates. Calendared ante, No. 304. 3 pp. [Col. Entry Bks., No. 77, pp, 29–31, No. 78, pp. 80–84, and No. 93, pp. 11–12.]

Nov. 6.

Whitehall. 325. Additional instructions to Major Jas. Bannister, Capt. Fras. Yates, and Henry Ayler. As soon as they are freed from Surinam to sail for Barbadoes, St. Kitts, or any of the Leeward Isles or Jamaica, and suffer such people as desire it to settle there. To send home an account of their proceedings, and whether the Articles for the first surrender of Surinam made by Col. Byam have been observed. 1 p. [Col. Entry Bks., No. 77, p. 32, No. 78, pp. 85–86, and No. 93, p. 13.]

Nov. 6.

Queen Street. 326. H. Slingesby, Secretary to the Council of Trade, to Joseph Williamson, Secretary to Lord Arlington, at his lodgings in Scotland Yard. Having notice that Sir Philip Frowde's son, one of his clerks, whom he ordered to call upon Williamson for copy of the Articles of Surinam had misbehaved himself, and left a note about said Articles in a slighting way, begs to have a copy of said paper, with an account of his clerk's carriage in the business. Yesterday, upon Major Bannister's motion for leaving out of his commission and instructions some of the English planters at Surinam, who might be unwilling to leave the place, it was ordered by the Council that Thomas Stanter and Lieut. Tobias Bateman be left out, and one Gerrard Marshall, Master Mate of the America, put in; which Williamson will be pleased to have done. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXV., No. 90.]