John Nugent Esq.

John Nugent Esq. was shown as the owner of Ross Park estate on Trinidad in 1813, in a return filed by Thomas Nugent his manager and attorney. A John Nugent was appointed by Thomas Picton to the Council of Trinidad in 1800 alongside two others (John Nihell q.v. and John Black q.v.) together identified as 'of the most respectable, intelligent and opulent proprietors of the Colony'. To date LBS has not traced John Nugent further: no direct evidence links the man active on Trinidad with either John Nugent of Bloomsbury (q.v.) (who had a son named Thomas b. 1791, will proved of New York in 1833, formerly resident on St Croix) or John Nugent of Westmeath (q.v.) (who died in 1811 and was the owner of the Delvin estate on Montserrat: one of the enslaved people on Ross Park in 1813 was named Delvin Murat).

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