John Whittaker

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Biography

Executor of two estates in Trelawny 1794-1795. No slave-owning has yet been identified for him, but it is possible he was the same man as John Whitaker (q.v.) of Clermont in St Elizabeth.

  1. John Whittaker, gent, formerly of the parish of Trelawny, Jamaica, West Indies, now of the city of Norwich: commission and inquisition of lunacy, into his state of mind and his property. Apr 16 1800.

Sources

The heirs of a John Whittaker were party to a suit in the Jamaica Court of Ordinary, Whittaker vs. Green et al., May 18, 1802, 1B/11/13/1, ff. 179-204. cited by Daniel Livesay, Children of Uncertain Fortune, PhD Thesis University of Michigan (2010) pp. 167-8.

  1. TNA C 211/27/W119

Further Information

Absentee?

Associated Estates (2)

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
1794 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Executor
1794 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Executor

Addresses (1)

Norwich, Norfolk, East Anglia, England