Elizabeth Innes

Probably the Elizabeth Innes who was daughter of Frances Donaldson (q.v.). In the slave register for 1817 on Middlesex estate in Hanover, Jamaica, "quadroon", age 13, Creole. Her mother Frances Donaldson and grandmother Lucy Gibbs were enslaved upon the same estate, as were her aunts Pechey Gibbs and Eliza Eleanor Gibbs and her half-sister Maria Sinclair. By the time of the 1820 slave register Elizabeth had been manumitted, along with Lucy Gibbs and Maria Sinclair.

Frances Donaldson had an extra-marital relationship with Cuthbert Potts, owner of Middlesex pen in 1817. Potts bequeathed Elizabeth Innes and Maria Sinclair £200 each in his will (written in 1826 and proved in 1827). He bequeathed his estate, Mount Pleasant, to Frances Donaldson for life and thereafter to his reputed daughter by Donaldson, Frances Ann Potts. Potts' sons John Potts, George James Potts and William Potts also received substantial legacies.

James George Potts ("a mestee"), Maria Sinclair ("quadroon"), Eleanor Eliza Gibbs, Peachy Gibbs (both "Sambos") were baptised in a group with others in Hanover 01/01/1814.

On Mount Pleasant in the census of 1823 were: Walter Gordon, age 49, "White"; John Farquharson, age 44, "White", Thomas Reynolds, age 26, "White"; Cuthbert Potts, age 70, "White"; William Burt, age 40, "Mulatto", Frances Donaldson, age 30, "mulatto"; Elizabeth Innes, age 19, "Quadroon"; Maria Sinclair, age 16, "Quadroon"; and Frances C. Reid, age 14, "Quadroon".

PROB 11/1732/186.

Slave register for Middlesex Pen in 1817: T71/190 pp. 609-611.

Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online].

Census of 1823 at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Cen23ha3.htm [accessed 14/02/2017].

We are grateful to J. Peynado for providing assistance with compiling this entry.