Hugh White II

Second son of Hugh White I, merchant of Jamaica. Matriculated Glasgow University in 1757. The Bluefields and Clayfield estates in Westmoreland were registered to the heirs of Hugh White in the Accounts Produce of 1782. The Bluefields estate at least had previously belonged to his father.

1. Hugh White of Westmoreland, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1780. Slave-ownership at probate: 79 of whom 40 were listed as male and 39 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £9929.21 Jamaican currency of which £5420 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £797.99 currency debts and £0 currency plate.

http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH25654&type=P [accessed 20/03/2017].

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