1663 - 1722
Quaker slave-owner of Jamaica, owner of Barton and Pepper estates, moving to Philadelphia c. 1697 and dying there in 1722.
Son of Francis Dickinson (1630-1704) and his wife Margaret, daughter of Stephen Crooke. Francis Dickinson was apparently a naval officer under Penn and Venables in 1655.
Born in Jamaica in 1663. Married Mary Gale c. 1685. He left a shipwreck narrative from his journey between Jamaica and the US.
His children were: Jonathan junior (1695-), d.s.p.; Joseph (1698-), had a daughter Mary who married Francis J. Tyssen of Jamaica; John (1701-1729), d.s.p.; Mary (?-1733), had a son Dickinson Jones who died in 1728; Hannah, who had a son who died young.
Harrold E. Gillingham, 'Notes and Documents: The Estate of Jonathan Dickinson (1663-1722)', The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Oct., 1935), pp. 420-429; Mikaela Perron (ed.), 'Jonathan Dickinson, God’s Protecting Providence' http://earlyfloridalit.net/?page_id=130 [accessed 03/02/2018]; Jason Daniels, 'Atlantic Contingency: Jonathan Dickinson and the Anglo-Atlantic World 1655-1725', unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Warwick (2013), https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/58038/1/WRAP_THESIS_Daniels_2013.pdf.
We are grateful to David Martial Alexander for his help with this entry.
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Absentee?
USA
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Spouse
Mary Gale
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Children
Jonathan (1695-), Joseph (1698-), John (1701-1729), Mary, Hannah
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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:
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1741 [EA] - 1743 [LA] → Previous owner
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1742 [EA] - 1742 [LA] → Previous owner
The deceased owner in 1741 and 1743 was given as Joseph Dickinson, either Jonathan's son or a transcription error. |
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Brothers
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Uncle → Nephew
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Uncle → Nephew
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Uncle → Nephew
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Father → Son
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Jonathan Dickinson of Philadelphia', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146650977 [accessed 25th November 2024].
