Francis Smyth

1. In 1751 Francis Smith (sic) obtained a grant of 300 acres in Nassau, St.Elizabeth, Jamaica; this property became the estate of Vauxhall. Either he or his son was Francis Smyth, one of the churchwardens of St.Elizabeth, in whom (with others) land at Black River was vested in 1760 as part of a scheme to provide for "negroes belonging to the parsonage" of St.Elizabeth. He died in the same year.

2. Francis Smith of St Elizabeth, planter. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1761. Slave-ownership at probate: 144 of whom 81 were listed as male and 63 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £11,333.68 Jamaican currency of which £7,378.53 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £215.50 currency cash, £347.58 currency debts and £47.63 currency plate.

1. Land Grants data at http://www.antonymaitland.com/maitwils.htm#_Toc377278059 [accessed 03/08/2017] sourced to Platt Books, 1B/11/2/35f113; 'An act to vest in trustees a piece or parcel of land, in the parish of St Elizabeth, to be sold for the use of the said parish; and, with the money arising from such sale, to purchase other lands for the use of the parsonage there' (30/10/1760) in The Laws of Jamaica: 17600-1792 via googlebooks, https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Z3xIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA2 [accessed 03/08/2017]; Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919) vol. II pp. 49-51.

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

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.