Jasper Hall I

This man, shown as Receiver-General of Jamaica and dying in 1778, has been inferred to be the first deceased Jasper Hall owning Hectors River and the father of the second (whose will was proved in 1798). Online genealogical sources suggest he married Ann Jane Bowerbank nee Bonnet, whose husband John Featherstone Bowerbank had petitioned for divorce c. 1772; this is in part supported by the baptism of Jane Hall, daughter of Jasper Hall and Ann Jane Bowerbank at Kingston 15/01/1767.

Jasper Hall was Receiver General in Jamaica in 1760, Member of Assembly for Kingston in 1764, 1765, 1766, 1768 and 1770. Speaker in 1778. Died November 1778.

Jasper Hall contributed £25 to the University of Pennsylvania following Dr John Morgan's fundraising tour of the West Indies in 1772-1773.

Jasper Hall of Kingston, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1780. Slave-ownership at probate: 354 of whom 168 were listed as male and 186 as female. 23 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £45191.59 Jamaican currency of which £20476 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £19481.71 currency debts and £68.5 currency plate.

Wood, B., Clayton, T., & Speck, W. (2002). 'The Letters of Simon Taylor of Jamaica to Chaloner Arcedekne, 1765–1775'. Camden Fifth Series, 19, 1-164. doi:10.1017/S0960116300003523.

W. A. Fuertado, Official and Other Personages of Jamaica from 1655 to 1790 Compiled from Various Sources (1896), transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/bfeurtado03.htm.

William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 73, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in Jamaican currency.

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