Priscilla Prance

1. Priscilla Prance "free mulatto", baptised in St Elizabeth 27/10/1794 with her son Patrick Carnegie. Aged about 20 years at the time of her baptism. On the same day was baptised Elizabeth Frances Carnegie, daughter of Stewart Carnegie and Mary Powell, "child reputed white”. Ceconia Carnegy, about 12 years old, reputed daughter of Dr Stewart Carnegy, deceased, by Priscilla Prance, "a free mulatto", baptised in St Elizabeth 06/07/1809. Ruth Prance Carnegie, aged about 10 years, John Stewart Carnegie, aged about 8 years and Maria Antoinette Carnegie, aged about 6 years, reputed children of Dr Stewart Carnegie by Priscilla Prance, "a free mulatto", baptised in St Elizabeth 07/12/1810.

2. Priscilla Prance owned enslaved people in St Elizabeth, 1816-1820.

1. Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online].

2. Jamaica Almanacs 1817, 1818, 1820, 1821.

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.