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Thomas Freeman

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Biography

  1. Possibly the Thomas Freeman Esquire who was one of the fourteen men who formed the Council of Sir Thomas Lynch in Jamaica in 1671.

  2. Colonel Thomas Freeman had patented 1309 1/2 acres of land in St Thomas by 1670 and 440 acres in St David.

  3. Thomas Freeman of St Thomas-in-the-East, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1718. Slave-ownership at probate: 140 of whom 70 were listed as male and 70 as female. 43 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £4959.38 Jamaican currency of which £3790 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £0 currency plate.


Sources

  1. 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.

  2. Sir Thomas Modyford, Survey of Jamaica (1670) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1670int.htm.

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

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Thomas Freeman Esquire
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