John Cavalier

John Cavalier of Kingston, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1736. Slave-ownership at probate: 173 of whom 97 were listed as male and 76 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £9275.95 Jamaican currency of which £4020 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £2769.04 currency debts and £151.63 currency plate.

The estate of John Cavalier was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 1648 acres of land in St Andrew.

The will of John Cavalier was proved in Jamaica in 1735.

This is possibly the John Cavalier who was Member of Assembly for St Mary in 1722 and/or the John Cavelier who was a merchant in Kingston in 1728.

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

'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.

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. 117.

W. A. Fuertado, Official and Other Personages of Jamaica from 1655 to 1790 Compiled from Various Sources (1896), transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/bfeurtado02.htm.