Michael Arnold

The estate of Michael Arnold Esquire decased at Machionel in St Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica, were filed in the Accounts Produce 1741-1742 by John Williams, administrator: "Sundry provisions, livestock and sundry negroes sold at publick vendue to discharge the judgement and execution the creditors had against the said estate sale amounting to £1576" (1741) and "Sundry goods, sale of enslaved people and an old mill" (1742).

Michael Arnold of St Thomas-in-the-East, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1741. Slave-ownership at probate: 84 of whom 44 were listed as male and 40 as female. 25 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £2061.21 Jamaican currency of which £1891.25 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £0 currency plate.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 pp. 176-177; Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/2 p. 20.

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