Hon. Thomas Wallen

President of the Council and slave-owner in Jamaica. His two estates in St John and Clarendon were in the hands of mortgagees towards the end of his life.

Assumed to be the Thomas Wallen who owned 504 acres and 109 enslaved people in St Andrew, Jamaica, in 1753. Frances Mary (or Francis Maria) daughter of Thomas Wallen and Frances Wallen was baptised in Kingston in 1760. She married Thomas Drought Esquire in Marylebone in 1777 and was recorded as the daughter of Hon. Thomas Wallen, President of Council in Jamaica, when she was buried in a cemetery on the south side of Paddington Street in London in 1811.

Thomas Wallen was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 504 acres of land in St Andrew, 3327 acres in St Elizabeth and 900 acres in Clarendon, total 4731 acres.

CO137/28 pp. 169-175 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1753Andrew.htm; Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online]; J. Smith, A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone: Comprising a Copious Description of Its Public Buildings, Antiquities, Schools, Charitable Endowments, Sources of Public Amusement, &c. with Biographical Notices of Eminent Persons. Illustrated with Six Views and a Map (1833) p. 134 (via Googlebooks).

'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.