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John Cummins

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1822

Biography

In a Levy Book list for St James, Barbados, 1822, Cummins was listed as owning, with James Cummins (q.v.) as their joint property, 115 enslaved and 183 acres of land. The name of the estate (or estates) was not given.

In a Levy Book list for an unidentified parish [probably St Andrew], Barbados, 1804, John Cummins was listed as owning 51 enslaved. Whether this was the same John Cummins as this one is not clear.

It is also possible that this was John Cummins who was buried in St James, Barbados, 28 September 1822.


Sources

Levy Book for St James, 1822. Barbados Department of Archives, RB9/3/7; Levy Book for unidentified parish [probably St Andrew], 1804. Barbados Department of Archives, RB9/3/7; Barbados Church Records, 1637-1887, FamilySearch, accessed 10 August 2015.

Associated Estates (2)

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
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
River plantation [ Barbados | St Andrew ]
Previous owner
Unknown [ Barbados | St James ]