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Daniel Monro senior

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1731

Biography

Owner of Crescent Estate in St Mary, Jamaica. Deceased by 1741. The property of Daniel Monro appears to have been the subject of Knight v Monroe, a Chancery case in the 1750s.

Daniel Monro of St Mary, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1733. Slave-ownership at probate: 232 of whom 137 were listed as male and 95 as female. 53 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £7,933.17 Jamaican currency of which £5,921 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £33.07 currency plate.

The will of Daniel Monroe [sic] was proved in Jamaica in 1731.


Sources

Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919) vol. 6 p. 71; Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.

Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919) vol. 2 p. 157.

Further Information

Children
Daniel
Wealth at death
£5

Associated Estates (1)

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
1741 [EA] - 1743 [LA] → Previous owner
Crescent [ Jamaica | St Mary ]

Relationships (1)

Daniel Monro senior
Father → Son
Daniel Monro junior
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Inventories (1)

Daniel Monro Esquire
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