Samuel Jenks

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Biography

Member of Assembly in Jamaica for Northside in 1664 and St James 1675, '77, '78, '82.

Samuel Jenks, estate probated in Jamaica in 1685. Slave-ownership at probate: 21 of whom 11 were listed as male and 10 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £423.71 Jamaican currency of which £204 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £55 currency debts and £0 currency plate.


Sources

W. A. Feurtado, Official and other Personages of Jamaica from 1655 to 1790 (1896) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/bfeurtado04.htm.

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


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