John Lindsay Watt I

1. Resident slave-owner in Jamaica, listed as a medical practitioner in Trelawny in 1783, and dying before 1792.

2. John Lindsay Watt and his wife Sarah had the following children baptised in Trelawny:

   . Sarah Watt: born 05/03/1772; baptised 02/12/1772

   . Jane Brown Watt, born 07/10/1773; baptised 06/01/1776

   . Mary Gillespie Watt, born 09/06/1775; baptised 06/01/1776

   . John Lindsay Watt: born 02/05/1777; baptised 10/09/1778 - q.v.

   . Thomas Brown Watt, born 15/04/1779; baptised 16/12/1781

   . James Thomas Brown Watt, born 04/10/1784; baptised 29/12/1784 - q.v.

   . Margaret Lindsay Watt, born 07/06/1786; baptised 05/03/1789

   . Helen Watt, born 11/06/1788; baptised 05/03/1789

   . Diana Primrose Watt, born 12/01/1790; baptised 28/09/1792

   . Edward Lindsay Watt, born 24/09/1791; baptised 28/09/1792; graduated MD, Edinburgh, 1818 (of Jamaica); died, Edinburgh, 06/05/1819 (of Jamaica)

3. Miss Watt, daughter of John Lindsay Watt deceased, married at the Johnston Estate, January 1793, Benjamin Hinds esq of St. Ann.

1. Medical Register for 1783 (London, 1783) p. 174.

2. Familysearch.org, Jamaican Parish Registers, Trelawny, Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1771-1839, pp. 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 19, 28; David Dobson, Scots in the West Indies 1707-1857, Vol.II, (2006), p.116; The Scotsman, 01/06/1819.

3. Royal Gazette of Jamaica 19/01/1793.

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.