Emanuel Baruh Lousada of Kingston Jamaica

Resident slave-owner and merchant in Jamaica, dying c. 1806 based on the proving of his will in London in 1807. Identified only as --- Lousada, deceased when Carlisle estate in Vere, Jamaica, was registered to him in the 1811 Jamaica Almanac. The will of Emanuel Baruh Lousada of Kingston, County of Surrey Jamaica, proved 14/02/1807, shows his ownership of Carlisle. He identified Isaac Baruh Lousada (q.v.) and 'Emanuel Baruh Lousada jun.' (q.v., under Emanuel Baruh Lousada of Sidmouth) as his brothers-in-law on his appointment of them among his executors.

Emanuel Barrow [sic] Lousada contributed £10 to the University of Pennsylvania following Dr John Morgan's fundraising tour of the West Indies in 1772-1773.

Listed as owner of Banks and Hounslow Heath in St Ann in 1792.

The executors of Emanuel Baruh Lousada were involved as appellants in a case brought after 1802 by Christiana Allen, widow of Benjamin Allen, concerning the conveying of "Sun Vale plantation, Jamaica" to George Cunningham and others by Benjamin Allen in 1795.

PROB 11/1457/8.

William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 74, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in Jamaican currency.

'A List of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly... transcribed from papers presented to the British Museum by Charles E. Long ref. Add. 12435' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/mstann1792.htm.

Listed in Eli Faber, Jews, slaves and the slave trade (1998) p. 241 as Jewish but not otherwise identified.

Information on the court case concerning Sun Vale is contained in National Archives item PCAP 13/2/12: "Printed appeal to an Appeals Committee of the Privy Council from JAMAICA, Chancery [colonial, Caribbean]. Appellant: Christiana Allen, widow of Benjamin Allen. Respondent: Daniel Baruh Lousada, Aaron Baruh Lousada, Isaac Baruh Lousada the younger, Hannanel D'Aguilar, Richard Lake and David Bravo, executors of Emanuel Baruh Lousada deceased, Emanuel Mendes Martins, executor of Jacob Baruh Lousada, deceased and Thomas Parnel, administrator ad litem of Samuel Adams deceased".

We are grateful to Michael Turnbull for his assistance with compiling this entry.