Abraham Dunkley I

Abraham Dunkley [I] of Clarendon, planter whose estate was probated in Jamaica in 1748. Slave-ownership at probate: 13 of whom 9 were listed as male and 4 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £918 Jamaican currency of which £665 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £0 currency plate.

Abraham Dunkley, deceased was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 150 acres of land in Clarendon and 50 acres of land in Vere, total 200 acres.

The will of Abraham Dunkley was proved in Jamaica in 1746.

'A List of landholders in the Island of Jamaica together with the number of acres each person possessed taken from the quit rent books in the year 1754', TNA CO 142/31 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/1754lead.htm.

Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.

Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919) vol. 2 p. 119.