Hugh Barnett I

Owner of Bid[d]eford estate in Trelawny, and probably of Sportsmans Hall in the same parish. Shown as 'late' by 1784: his death was reported in a letter of William Miles to John Tharp dated 10/01/1782. Secondary sources show him as the son of Jonathan Barnett and Jane Stone (each of whom q.v.).

Hugh Barnett of Trelawny, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1783. Slave-ownership at probate: 271 of whom 142 were listed as male and 129 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £23992.5 Jamaican currency of which £21017 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £0 currency plate.

Kenneth Morgan (ed.) 'V. Calendar of Correspondence of William Miles a West India Merchant in Bristol and John Tharp, a Planter in Jamaica, 1770-1789', in Patrick McGrath (ed.) A Bristol Miscellany, (Bristol Record Society Vol. XXXVII, 1985), pp. 79-121, at p. 101; e.g. Jean Besson, Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture p. 66, which gives his death-date as 1779.

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