Alexander Fullerton

Resident slave-owner, although living at Upper Charlotte Street when he made his will in 1795. Member of the Assembly for St Ann, great-uncle and benefactor of George Alexander Fullerton (ne Dowing) (q.v.). Almost certainly the Dr Alexander Fullerton who had been a partner of Dr Alexander Johnston in St Ann. He had purchased the Ballintoy estate on Co. Antrim sometime after c. 1760.

1. Alexander Fullerton contributed £11 17s 6d to the University of Pennsylvania following Dr John Morgan's fundraising tour of the West Indies in 1772-1773.

2. Alexander Fullerton was owner of 321 enslaved people and 803 stock in St Ann, Jamaica, in 1792.

3. Will of Alexander Fullerton of [parish of St Ann residing at Upper Charlotte Street] St Pancras [made in 1795] proved 29/10/1806. In the will he manumitted 'my faithful black servant named George Fullerton', his black driver named Alexander residing on Penny's, a mulatto girl named Jane Park, a mulatto boy named George son to Belinda, and a negro woman named Jane Stowe, with annuities of £20 currency p.a. to George Fullerton and £10 currency p.a. to the others. He left his brother Rev. David Fullerton an annuity of £500 p.a. secured on his Jamaica and British and Irish property. He left £2000 currency to a free mulatto man of St Ann called James Fullerton, £10,000 to his grand-nephew David Fullerton late David Downing, and £5000 currency to his kinsman William Fullerton of Jamaica. He left £10,000 in trust for his reported natural daughter Elizabeth Fullerton, born in Jamaica and then at school in Hackney. He left his Jamaica estates and enslaved people and his Ballintoy estate in Co. Antrim to his grand nephew George Alexander Fullerton late George Alexander Downing, 'now a student at Oxford' for life and then to his heir, failing whom the estates were to pass to Elizabeth Fullerton.

Douglas Hamilton Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World p. 144, which shows Dr Alexander Fullerton as a Member of the Assembly 1768-1770 and 1774-1801, and a member of the Council 1790 and 1796. Feurtado by contrast shows Alexander Fullerton as MA St Ann's only in 1768, 1774, 1781, 1787 and 1790.

1. William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 76, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in Jamaican currency.

2. 'A List of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly... transcribed from papers presented to the British Museum by Charles E. Long ref. Add. 12435' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/mstann1792.htm.

3. PROB 11/1450/271. Two codicils of 1806 place him in Jamaica at that point.