John Woodcock

Resident slave-owner in Jamaica, owner of Donnington Castle. His widow Elizabeth nee Guy married Sir Charles Price 2nd bart. (q.v.)

John Wilson was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 50 acres of land in St Mary.

Churchwarden in St Mary 1760. Member of Assembly for St Mary 1766.

John Woodcock of St Mary, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1771. Slave-ownership at probate: 123 of whom 59 were listed as male and 64 as female. 44 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £12079.66 Jamaican currency of which £8028 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £50 currency plate.

Caribbeana Vol. III gives John Woodcock's date of death as 1768, at Donnington Castle.

'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.

W. A. Fuertado, Official and Other Personages of Jamaica from 1655 to 1790 Compiled from Various Sources (1896), transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/bfeurtado07.htm.

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