MRP: Jamaica

Jamaica

Editorial history

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Suggested links

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Mentions of Jamaica in primary sources

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Law suits

See C6/36/21 f. 1

- George Cock and John Fenn exhibited in Chancery in 1670 a Bill of Complaint against the London merchant John Letten and against Thomas Hobart (alias Hobard), the master of the William (C6/36/21 f. 1). The chancery suit alleged that the ship had been in poor condition, in breach of the charter party, and that their goods as a direct consequence were damaged in transit by water, leading to losses on their attempted sale in Guinea. The charter party had been drawn up on November 1st, 1667, with, as the first party, Cock and another London merchant, James Temple, now deceased, and Letten and Hobart as the second party. The ship was chartered for a triangular trade between London, the Guinea coast and unspecified "Islands in America." The charter party specified the carrying of negroes, so it is likely that the ship was bound from Guinea for Barbados, Jamaica, or another island in the Caribbean under English dominion.

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Wills

See James Man will (Written in 1668)

- "And the rest of my estate whateverit shall appeare to be either here in England or out of England in any part of the world as in Turkey and Jamaica in the confines of America in the West Indies proceeding upon adventures that I have made thither and that was bequeathed me by my deceased son John Man by his Will who dyed in Jamaica"

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See Francis Man will (Written in 1674)

- Frances Man was a son of James Man, a merchant, who was a subscriber to the SVJS

- "JAMAICA. IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I ffrancis Man of the Island of Jamaica aforesaid Merchant"

-" I doe give and bequeath unto my deare and loveing brother M:r Samuell Man of London Grocer all that my one fourth or quarter parte of that Plantacon and ground comonly called Marchants Valley and formerly knowne by the name of Coveneyes hole containeing in all seaventeene hundred and twelve Acres of land most of it being maintained by two patents one in the name of Jn:o ?Noyce for fifteene hundred Acres and the other in M:r Sam: Lewis and myn name beaing date the [BLANK IN ORIGINAL] scituate lying and being in the parish of Saint Catherines in the Island aforesaid with all my fourth parte of all Negroes Servants horses Cattel ?xxxx fowles or other stock whatsoever belonging to the said plantaton and of all tooles utensills necessaries and appurtenances thereunto belonging xxxxing and accounting all the negroes and servants xr stock that is at John Ellis plantacon where wee now ?live ?to appurtance thereunto and alsoe all that my halfe of the Boysary land contained in Two Pattents in M:r Lewis and my name One for one thousand Acres and theother for two hundred fifty and six Acres beearing date the [BLANK IN ORIGINAL] and alsoe all that my halfe parte of another parcell of Land in S:t Elizabeth Parish to Leeward q:t xxxx xxxx one thousand and fifty Acres as per the Pattent in the M:r Lewis and my name bearing date [BLANK IN ORIGINAL] And all that parcell of Land at ?Perrces Savana in the parish of Clavendon q:t one hundred sixty and six Acres patented in my owne name And that Plantaton at Seaven Plantatons which I purchased of Robert ?Sliver and David Williams with the old Cocoa Walke and ground thereunto belonging bought by my Bro:r of ?Cob Doyly which is his owne with the Negroes thereunto belonging as ?Hector Maria his Wife ?Bette and Moll Rich:d and Johnson their Children and Jacke a man Negroe with ?Goulaloo who is a kinde of a Planterer and workes with us and one Mare and one horse Colt fower yeares old and three other Colts running with the same Mare and are in the ?Cearole and on horse called Robin all which belong to that plantaton as alsoe a Mare and three Colts more which I had of Jn:o Hewit for Cocoa farmes ?I lent him which are alsoe with ?Cearole All and singular the premisses I give and bequeath to my said brother and his heires for ever"

- "ITEM my Will and desire is that the Negroe Womon called Marthah which is our house Negroe with her Pickenninie though shee belonged to the plantaton at seaven plantatons may bee and remaine to M:r Sa: Lewis forever"

- "ITEM I give and bequeath to M:r Lewis aforesaid all that my halfe parte of eight hundred and eighty Acres of Land at Morant which hee sold me some time past"

- "ITEM my Will and desire is whereas one M:r Fountaine that is settled in the North side hath laid an order the Governour gave me in exchange for one hundred feete SQUARE OF LAND ON P:T ROYALL ATT BONNAMS POINT that where it is patented two hundred Acres patented in my brothers John Mans name and five hundred Acres in my Coz An: Crofts name at his Charge"

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See Alexander Hosea will (Written in 1684)

- "ITEM I give and bequeath to my ?Cousin hxxxx in Jamaica the sonne of my Coen Robert Hosea Carrier deceased Three hundred pounds"

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See John Kendall will (Written in 1684)

- "WHEREAS the words and soe his heires was through mistake left out in that paragraph whereinthe above Testator gave all his estate in Jamaica to his brother Cap:t James Kendall It was further declared by M.r John Kendall the aforesaid Testator that it was his free will meaning and Intent that his aforesaid loveing brothers (sic) Cap:t James Kendall should hold and enjoy all his estate and plantation in Barbados or America to him and his heires forever."

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See Jacob Lucie will (Written 1686)

- "[Jacob Lucie of the parish of S:t Katherine Coleman London Esquire] ITEM I give and devise unto my said daughter Elizabeth Lucie and her heires forever All that my fourth parte of the plantation in Jamaica which was lately managed by Cornelius Struys for the accompt of me and John Harris and Robert Bowyer and whereof I and the said John Harris and Robert Bowyer have lately coveyed our fourth parte to the said Cornelius Struys And I give unto my said daughter one fourth parte of the stock of the said last mencioned plantacion

ITEM I give and devise unto my said daughter and her heires forever my third parte of a moyety of two hundred forty and three acres of Land Meadow or pasture in the parish of S:t Andrew in Jamaica aforesaid which moyety was by me and the said John Harris and Robert Bowyer lately purchased in ffee simple of and from the said Cornelius Struys And I give to my said daughter my fourth parte of sixteene breeding cowes put or agreed to be put at on the said two hundred forty and three acres of Land with the fourth parte of the increase and benefitt ariseing or to arise by the said sixteene Cowes"

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Suggested primary sources

TNA

PROB 11/350 Bence 1-54 Will of Francis Man, Merchant of Island of Jamaica, West Indies 18 March 1676
PROB 11/473 Dogg 205-250 Will of Sir Thomas Modyford of Saint Jago de la Vega Island of Jamaica, West Indies 13 December 1703

Longleat House

Longleat House: The Coventry Papers: - (no title) CO/VOL. CV 1672-1686: Contents: Family and private correspondence of Sir William Coventry (continued), 6 July, 1672-12 June, 1686; including letters of his brothers Henry and Francis, his nephew Sir John Coventry, Thomas Thynne, Henry Savile, John Pakington, Lord Windsor, and others, with drafts of his own letters. Among other subjects treated are the negotiations for the purchase of Williamstrip from H. Powle in 1676-77, the domestic troubles of Francis Coventry, the death of John Coventry, son of Francis, in Jamaica in 1672 and of Henry Bond Coventry in 1677.
Ff.273.

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Suggested secondary sources

Blome, Richard, A description of the island of Jamaica (London, 1672)