Valentine Jones

Merchant of Barbados for 33 years, son of Valentine Jones (d. 1805) of Belfast, who had been a West India merchant and wine and rum dealer. Online sources not corroborated by LBS show Valentine Jones - probably this man d. 1808 - as the owner of Providence estate in Christ Church in 1777.

1. The will of Valentine Jones merchant of Belfast proved 10/05/1808 is of this man (it identifies Edward Jones Agnew as his 'brother' - in fact Agnew was his half-brother). In the will, among other legacies, he left to 'my black female servant named Bamba' 6 guineas in discharge of her wages and an annuity of 4 guineas p.a. His residuary heir was his son, also named Valentine Jones, convicted of embezzlement as Commissary-General of the West Indies in 1809 in a case involving the conduct also of Matthew Higgins (q.v.).

Valentine Jones (d. 1805) has an entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography that includes family members, https://www.dib.ie/biography/jones-valentine-a4346 [accessed 20/08/2021]. The entry at one point gives the death-date of Valentine Jones the Barbados merchant as 1834, but elsewhere in the text shows his life-dates (correctly) as 1729?-1808; https://creolelinks.com/barbados-plantation-history.html [accessed 21/08/2021].