Humphrey Freeman

Possibly the same man as the Humphrey Freeman who owned 627 acres of land in St Catherine in 1670.

Humphrey Freeman was one of the first elected Members of Assembly in Jamaica, which met in St Jago de la Vega for the first time 20/01/1664, where he represented Old Harbour.

Memorial inscription in the Cathedral, St Catherine, Jamaica: HERE LYETH INTERRED THE BODY OF HUMPHREY FREEMAN ESQR WHO WAS AT YE TAKEING OF THIS ISLAND. HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 6th OF AUGUST 1692 IN THE 64th YEAR OF HIS AGE.

Humphrey Freeman of St Thomas-in-the-East, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1700. Slave-ownership at probate: 61 of whom 27 were listed as male and 34 as female. 11 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £2039.16 Jamaican currency of which £1116 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £665 currency debts and £47.51 currency plate.

'Survey of Jamaica, 1670, St Catherine's Parish' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1670sc.htm.

W. A. Fuertado, Official and Other Personages of Jamaica from 1655 to 1790 Compiled from Various Sources (1896), introduction, transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/bfeurtado99.htm.

James Henry Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875), p. 45.

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