Jeremiah Penniston

Early purchaser of land on St Vincent. He appeared in the St Eustatius censuses of 1764 and 1766, but has not otherwise been further traced.

1. 'Jeremiah Penniston purchased 197 cleared acres in Boucamont, formerly occupied by one La Chaussée, at a price of £59 10 shillings per acre. Along with six uncleared acres at a price of £11 18 shillings per acre, Penniston paid a total of £11,792 sterling for his acquisitions in St. Vincent. BNA CO 106/9 N. 33.'

www.academia.edu/17229570/1764_St._Eustatius_Census; www.academia.edu/6464270/1766_St._Eustatius_Census_Transcript [both accessed 06/08/2019].

1. Tessa Murphy, 'THE CREOLE ARCHIPELAGO: COLONIZATION, EXPERIMENTATION, AND COMMUNITY IN THE SOUTHERN CARIBBEAN, C. 1700-1796', Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Chicago (2016) p. 91.