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Robert Tredway

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1727

Biography

Major slave-owner in Jamaica. Deceased by 1727.

  1. Dr Robert Tredway was Member of Assembly for Port Royal 1694, 1722 and 1726. Died 1727.

  2. Robert Tredway of St Catherine, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1727. Slave-ownership at probate: 640 of whom 385 were listed as male and 255 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £46,283.06 Jamaican currency of which £18,511.5 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £12,867.91 currency debts and £23.50 currency plate.


Sources

  1. W. A. Feurtado, Official and Other Personages of Jamaica from 1655 to 1790 Compiled from Various Sources (1896), transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/bfeurtado07.htm.

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

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
1741 [EA] - 1742 [LA] → Previous owner
Maggotty [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

Given as Robert Tredwey in the Accounts Produce, inferred to have been the same man as Dr Robert Tredway d. 1727

Inventories (1)

Robert Tredway Esquire
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