Maynard Clarke

Transatlantic slave-owner dying in Jamaica in 1759.

1. Maynard Clarke owned 948 acres and 210 enslaved people in St Andrew, Jamaica, in 1753.

2. On 31/12/1756, two adult black servants, James March 'vulgarly called Quaw' and Francis Dyer 'vulgarly called Neptune', were baptised at Hunsden Hertfordshire, in the presence of their 'master' Maynard Clarke of Birchanger Essex and his family.

3. Will of Maynard Clarke of St Andrew Jamaica proved 08/12/1759. Under the will he left his estates in trust subject to a legacy of £5000 for his daughter Catherine Clarke to his daughter Susanna Maynard Clarke for life and then to the latter's children in entail, failing whom to Catherine Clarke and her heirs, failing whom to 'my own right heirs.'

4. Maynard Clark of St Andrew, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1761. Slave-ownership at probate: 211 of whom 113 were listed as male and 98 as female. 64 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £12,680.77 Jamaican currency of which £8,855.75 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £0 currency plate.

1. CO137/28 pp. 169-175 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1753Andrew.htm.

2. https://aparcelofribbons.co.uk/tag/maynard-clarke/ [accessed 21/09/2023].

3. PROB 11/851/169.

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