Thomas Harding

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1766

Biography

Thomas Harding was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 349 acres of land in Hanover.

Thomas Harding of St James, planter. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1766. Slave-ownership at probate: 122 of whom 60 were listed as male and 62 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £13894.04 Jamaican currency of which £7425 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £5 currency cash, £276.88 currency debts and £0 currency plate.

LBS has inferred that this was the same man as Thomas Harding the owner of Weston Favell, who first appears in the Accounts Produce in 1766.

Sources

"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.

Further Information

Spouse

Married but no further details

Occupation

Planter

Associated Estates (1)

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