Samuel Wheeler

Thomas and Samuel Wheeler were listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owners of 270 acres of land in St Catherine, 1020 acres in St Thomas-in-the-East and 250 acres in St Thomas-in-the-Vale, total 1540 acres.

Samuel Wheeler of St Catherine, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1756. Slave-ownership at probate: 67 of whom 39 were listed as male and 28 as female. 14 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £5517.84 Jamaican currency of which £2895 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £62.83 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £0 currency plate.

'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.

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