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Henry Lord

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Slave-owner in Jamaica, dead by 1790. Online genealogical sources suggest ties to Clifton and to Somerset in the 1750s, with the birth or baptism of several children there, but these have not been confirmed.

Henry Lord was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 100 acres of land in St Catherine and 2757 acres of land in St Thomas-in-the-Vale, total 2857 acres. Thomas Sutton, a minor, and Henry Lord were listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 150 acres of land in Portland.

Henry Lord contributed £50 to the University of Pennsylvania following Dr John Morgan's fundraising tour of the West Indies in 1772-1773.


Sources

'A List of landholders in the Island of Jamaica together with the number of acres each person possessed taken from the quit rent books in the year 1754', TNA CO 142/31 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/1754lead.htm.

C. S. Graubard, 'Documenting the University of Pennsylvania's Connection to Slavery (2018) via archives.upenn.edu [accessed 16/01/2019].

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.

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Associated Estates (4)

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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1797 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
Ivy [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]
1790 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Previous owner
Ramble [ Jamaica | Clarendon ]
1799 [EA] - → Previous owner
River Head Estate [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]
Previous owner
Union Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]

In his will made in 1775 and proved in 1776, Samuel Smith said he had purchased half of the Union sugar works from Henry Lord Esq. It is not clear that Henry Lord Esq. was the same man as the Henry Lord shown as previous owner of three estates in Clarendon and St Thomas-in-the-Vale in the late 1790s.

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

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University of Pennsylvania...... 
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C. S. Graubard, 'Documenting the University of Pennsylvania's Connection to Slavery (2018) via archives.upenn.edu [accessed...

Relationships (1)

Henry Lord
Other relatives
William Lord
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Possibly father and...