Jennet [Janet] Hynes then Sadler then Sadler Hals (née Guthrie)

Jennet Guthrie was the daughter and co-heiress of James Guthrie of Westmoreland who died in 1728. Jennet married John Hynes of Westmoreland and had a daughter Helen. She married, secondly, Francis Sadler (later Sadler Hals) of Montpelier estate, St James. She inherited Halse Hall on the death of her second husband in 1753 and was buried at Halse Hall, 11/09/1775. She outlived her daughters and Halse Hall was passed to her son-in-law Thomas Beach.

Janet Sadl. Hals of St Catherine, widow. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1776. Slave-ownership at probate: 28 of whom 13 were listed as male and 15 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £2382.63 Jamaican currency of which £1700 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £100 currency plate.

The will of Janett Sadler Hals of St. Catherine, Widow was proved in Jamaica 28/09/1775.

Note she is sometimes erroneously described as the daughter of Colonel John Guthrie (q.v.).

Memorial inscription at Halse Hall: "IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH ELLETSON, DAUGHTER OF JOHN & JANNET HAYNES, DIED AUGUST 31st, 1760 JANNET HYNES, WIFE OF THE ABOVE JOHN HYNES, AND MOTHER OF HELEN BEACH, WAS ELDEST DAUGHTER & COHEIRESS OF JAMES GUTHRIE OF WESTMORELAND, AND WAS SECONDLY MARRIED TO FRANCIS SADLER HALS, ESQRE., BY WHOM SHE HAD NO ISSUE." James Henry Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875) p. 303 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Barche19.htm.

Lawrence J. Chubb, 'Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche' in Stephen K. Donovan (ed.), Jamaican Rock Stars, 1823-1971: The Geologists who Explored Jamaica (Boulder, CO, 2008) pp. 9-13.

Anne M. Powers, 'The Maroon War settlement of 1739', http://aparcelofribbons.co.uk/2011/11/the-maroon-war-settlement-of-1739/ [accessed 16/04/2015].

Anne M. Powers, 'Descendants of Thomas Rose, fourth generation', http://aparcelofribbons.co.uk/wp-content/paf_files/roseofjam/pafg04.htm#103 [accessed 16/04/2015].

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

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We are grateful to Daniel Livesay for his assistance with this entry.