William Demetres

Member of Assembly for Clarendon in 1727.

William Demetres of Clarendon, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1741. Slave-ownership at probate: 48 of whom 22 were listed as male and 26 as female. 17 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £2020.88 Jamaican currency of which £1215 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £126 currency debts and £20 currency plate.

The estate of William Demetres was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 940 acres of land in Clarendon and 18 acres of land in St Dorothy, total 958 acres.

The will of William Demetres was proved in Jamaica in 1741.

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.

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. 118.