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John Lowndes

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1820

Biography

Slave-owner and Surveyor-General on Dominica, dying there in 1820. He had been the author of The Coffee-Planter; or an Essay on the Cultivation and Manufacturing of that Article of West-India Produce (London: C. Lowndes, 1807).


Sources

The Scots Magazine Vols. 85-6 Jan.1820 p. 96: 'On his estate, Mount Pleasant, Dominica John Lowndes Esq. aged 64 Surveyor-General of that island'; The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 30 (1876) shows him as from a South Carolina family, the son of John Taylor Lowndes and the father of Henrietta ('m. Rev. Henry [sic] Newman of Roseau') and Grace ('m. ----Walsh of Roseau').

Further Information

Spouse
Married but no further details
Children
Henrietta; Grace

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
- 1820 [EY] → Owner
Mount Pleasant [ Dominica ]

Legacies Summary

Historical (1)

PamphletsAuthor?
The Coffee-Planter; or an Essay on the Cultivation and Manufacturing of that Article of West-India... 1807 
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A manual, including the preference for 'the LABOURERS; a term far more appropriate than that of SLAVES, when applied to a set of people, who possess their house, the home, their plantation, their...

Relationships (2)

John Lowndes
Father → Daughter
Grace Walsh
Details
John Lowndes
Other relatives
John Henry Newman
Details
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Either son-in-law and father-in-law or grandson and grandfather. John Lowndes daughter Henrietta reportedly married 'Rev. Henry Newman', probably the Henry Charles Christian Newman who matriculated...