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Talbot O'Brien

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1776

Biography

Resident slave-owner of Jamaica. dying there in 1776.

  1. Talbot O'Brien contributed £18 to the University of Pennsylvania following Dr John Morgan's fundraising tour of the West Indies in 1772-1773.

  2. TALBOT O'BRIEN, ESQ., OF THE PAR. OF ST. DAVID, OB. 24 MAY, 1 776, AET. 39.

  3. Talbot Obrian of St David, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1777. Slave-ownership at probate: 111 of whom 56 were listed as male and 55 as female. 25 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £12308.36 Jamaican currency of which £7610 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £1287.29 currency debts and £0 currency plate.


Sources

  1. William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 75, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in Jamaican currency.

  2. Monumental Inscriptions (1875) p. 137.

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

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
1779 [EA] - 1779 [LA] → Previous owner
Llandewey, Thistleborough and Retreat [ Jamaica | St David ]

Legacies Summary

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University of Pennsylvania...... 
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William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 75, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in...

Inventories (1)

Talbot Obrian Esquire
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