4th Sep 1721 - 1773
Gerard Halsted, son of Gerard Halsted and Barbara Ermin of Chelsea, born 04/09/1721 and baptised 14/09/1721 in St Luke's, Chelsea. Of Knightsbridge when he made his will in 1761 and added a codicil in 1769, dying c. 1773. Inherited £3000 in the will of his uncle Mathew Halsted (q.v.). Matriculated Queen's College, Oxford, 17/12/1740, age 19.
Will of Gerard John Halsted of Knightsbridge [made in 1761] proved 19/01/1773. He left his Bybrook estate 'near Spanish Town' and his other property to the London merchant Henry Douglas, failing whom to Sir James Cockburn of Langton. In a codicil of 1769, he said that the had sold or agreed to sell the Bybrook estate [and the enslaved people on it] to Elizabeth Thomas of St Catherine and Hampson Thomas of St Catherine for £4000 currency.
Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online]; Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919) vol. V pp. 232-234, 'Halsted of Jamaica'; Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online].
PROB 11/984/204.
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Oxford (Queen's) [1740 ]
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Gerard John Halsted agreed to sell the estate to Elizabeth Thomas and Hampson Thomas in 1769 for £4000 currency. |
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Knightsbridge, London, Middlesex, London, England
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