Robert Dallas

???? - 1769


Biography

Robert Dallas MD is shown as the owner of Dallas Castle and as the father of Robert Charles Dallas (q.v.) in the ODNB entry for the latter. Genealogical sources consistently link the owner of Dallas Castle to the Robert Dallas who died in London in 1769, and show his grandson as George Mifflin Dallas, after whom the city of Dallas was named.

  1. Robert Dallas owned 900 acres and 91 enslaved people in St Andrew, Jamaica, in 1753. This is assumed to be Dallas Castle, now in Port Royal.

  2. Robert Dallas was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 30 acres of land in St Andrew, 245 acres in St Thomas-in-the-East and 470 acres in St George, total 745 acres.

  3. Will of Robert Dallas [late of the island of Jamaica but now] of the parish of St John the Evangelist Westminster proved 20/12/1769. In the will, made in the same year, after £500 to his niece and £20 each for mourning to some younger relatives, he left his entire estate to his wife Sarah, also an executrix with Samuel Jackson of Jamaica and the latter's brother John Jackson of Lime Street. The will makes no mention either of children or of property in Jamaica, but an executor for Samuel Jackson appears as a trustee of Dallas Castle.


Sources

James Watt, ‘Dallas, Robert Charles (1754–1824)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7038, accessed 27 Feb 2017]; e.g. James Dallas, The History of the Family of Dallas (1921) pp. 495-498, 508.

  1. CO137/28 pp. 169-175 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1753Andrew.htm.

  2. 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.

  3. PROB 11/953/285.


Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic?
Spouse
Sarah

Associated Estates (2)

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
1753 [EA] - 1769 [EY] → Owner

Inferred connection based on genealogical material

1762 [EA] - 1764 [LA] → Not known

Relationships (4)

Father → Son
Grandfather → Grandson
Grandfather → Grandson
Grandfather → Grandson