???? - 1841
Attorney in Jamaica and awardee in right of his wife of Long Hill estate, later known as Prospect, in St Elizabeth.
Married Catherine Campbell Griffith; father of, among others,
Catherine Ann: born 28/05/1795; married (i) James White (see sub Hon.Dr. John White), (ii) Admiral Douglas Smyth Griffith: born 03/06/1800; Lieut., RN; married Helen Galloway and was father of Colonel John Gilbert Erskine Griffith (born 15/01/1837; Colonel commanding 16th Bombay Infantry, 1882; inherited Hodges Pen on the death of J.J.A. Shakespear; died 1902).
Anna Maria: married Dr [Andrew] Cooke of St.Ann's parish.
Catherine Campbell Griffith of St Helier, Jersey, was one of the executors of the will of John William Spencer Griffith in 1841.
Email from Paul Hitchings 04/03/2019 sourced to Daily Gleaner 27/04/1931 p. 31; Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online].
We are grateful to Paul Hitchings and Mary Hewitt for their help with compiling this entry.
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Name in compensation records
J. Griffith
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Spouse
Catherine Campbell Shakespear
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Children
Catherine Ann (1795-), Smyth (1800-1902), Anna Maria, and others
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£1,099 4s 9d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
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£233 11s 7d
Awardee
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£685 8s 11d
Awardee
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£625 13s 0d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
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£1,952 4s 8d
Awardee (Trustee)
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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
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1820 [EA] - → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver
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1826 [EA] - → Executor
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
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1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
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1829 [EA] - → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - → Executor
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - → Executor
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1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
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1839 [EA] - → Not known
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1823 [EA] - → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Executor
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1832 [EA] - → Guardian
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1809 [EA] - → Not known
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1823 [EA] - → Trustee and Executor
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver
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1832 [EA] - → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Guardian
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1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Guardian
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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Husband → Wife
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Brother-in-laws
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Brother-in-laws
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Father → Daughter
Notes →
...
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Grandfather → Grandson
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Grandfather → Grand-daughter
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Son-in-law → Father-in-law
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Other relatives
Notes →
The son of Dr John White married the daughter of John [William Spencer]...
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St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023
CITING THIS RECORD:
'John William Spencer Griffith', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/15236 [accessed 22nd September 2023].
