Isaac Horsford

1743 - 1830


Biography

  1. Resident slave-owner and attorney on Grenada, dying there in 1830. A monumental inscription recorded in Grenada showed him (dying in 1830 aged 87) and his wife (Mary Ann, dying in 1827 aged 77) as both born in Antigua.

  2. Father-in-law of Walter Cockburn (q.v.), Horsford's daughter being the Alicia Horsford or Cockburn given as the wife of Walter Cockburn in Cockburn's will.

  3. Also father-in-law of Owsley Rowley (q.v.), husband of Horsford's daughter Christian (1777-1853).


Sources

  1. Vere Langford Oliver, More Monumental Inscriptions: Tombstones of the British West indies p.205.

  2. PROB 11/1937/162; email from Mary Cornelius 24/08/2018 sourced to Lucius Cary to Sarah Cary, 10 January 1815, Ms. N-2003, Massachusetts Historical Society, Cary Family papers III, 1769-1919: Box 3.

  3. Vere Langford Oliver, More Monumental Inscriptions: Tombstones of the British West Indies (Rockville, Maryland, 1993) p. 203.

We are grateful to Mary Cornelis for her assistance with compiling this entry.


Further Information

Spouse
Mary Ann
Children
Alica, Christian (1777-1853)

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner

Relationships (2)

Father-in-law → Son-in-law
Father-in-law → Son-in-law