Moses Bravo

A Moses Bravo, not yet of full age, was bequeathed £200 Jamaican currency as "my Godson" in the will of Benjamin Bravo, planter of St Andrew (signed 1742, proved in London 1744). Benjamin Bravo left further bequests to Moses' brother Jacob ("son of my Loving Kinsman David Bravo of the Parish of Kingston Merchant" and Moses' sisters Rebecca (wife of Jacob Henriques of St Catherine, planter), Leah and Sarah Bravo (also the daughters of David Bravo).

Owner of Mount Moses in St Andrew, Jamaica, in 1753.

Moses Bravo was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 300 acres of land in St Andrew.

Will of Benjamin Bravo, PROB 11/735/368.

CO137/28 pp. 169-175 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1753Andrew.htm.

'A List of landholders in the Island of Jamaica together with the number of acres each person possessed taken from the quit rent books in the year 1754', TNA CO 142/31 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/1754lead.htm.