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Benjamin Lucas

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1822

Biography

Commander-in-Chief of Dominica in 1815 after the departure of Governor Ainslie and party to the controversy over the repression of the maroons. His death-date was given as 1822 in an extract reproduced by Vere Langford Oliver.


Sources

Polly Pattullo, Your time is done now: Slavery, Resistance and Defeat, the Maroon Trials of Dominica (1813-1814) (London and Trafalgar, Dominica 2015); Caribbeana Vol. II p. 190: 'Benjamin Lucas (circa 1750 — 1822) was President of Dominica, and Nathaniel Lucas, his contemporary (Charles Kingsley's grandfather), Judge of Barbadoes. They were related (perhaps brothers) and belonged to the well-known family of St. John's, Colchester. Can anyone help me to connect them either with the Lucases of Antigua or those of Mount Lucas, Phillipstown, King's County, Ireland? Nathaniel Lucas, who died at St. John's, Antigua, 1753, may possibly have been their father. G. H. Watson, Lieut.-Colonel LA. 85. Oakwood Court, Kensington, W.'

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
1817 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
Emsall (?) [ Dominica ]

Relationships (1)

Benjamin Lucas
Father-in-law → Son-in-law
Benjamin Airay Watson
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Unconfirmed genealogical material online shows the wife of Benjamin Airay Watson as Dorothea...