Gilbert Senior

Resident slave-owner on Jamaica, son of Christopher Senior (d. c. 1762), husband of Mary Lawrence and father of Christopher Senior Lawrence, Gilbert William and Sarah Jane Keith Senior. Inherited a share in Salt River estate in Westmoreland from his great-uncle William Dorrill. Owner of Lancet Hall in St Ann at the time of his death c. 1778.

1. Gilbert Senior contributed £20 to the University of Pennsylvania following Dr John Morgan's fundraising tour of the West Indies in 1772-1773.

2. Gilbert Sensor [sic - Senior] of St Ann, planter. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1780. Slave-ownership at probate: 21 of whom 16 were listed as male and 5 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £2344 Jamaican currency of which £1920 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £20 currency plate.

http://www.archerfamily.org.uk/family/senior.htm [accessed 06/06/2017]; Douglas Hall, In miserable slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-1786 (Mona, Jamaica, 1999) pp. 23-24.

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