Donald Ross senior

Owner of Spring Garden estate in Berbice in the 1818 registration, dying by 1825.

1. Shown by David Alston as one of four brothers from Boath in Ross & Cromarty, all planters: the other three were Hector and John in Berbice and George in Demerara. 'In September 1815 ‘Donald Ross Esq of Berbice’ married, in London, Miss Martha Hulbert of Norton Street, Portland Place [European Magazine and London Review 1815]. Martha died in 1820, described on her gravestone in the cemetery of St John’s Wood chapel as the ‘wife of Donald Ross, late of the Colony of Berbice’.'

2. Administration of the will of Donald Ross [native] of Alness, Ross & Cromarty [made in Berbice in 1823] was granted 13/07/1825. He left an annuity of £80 p.a. to his mother Cristy [?] Ross born Munro, and his property to his sisters Peggy [Munro born Ross] and Isabella Ross, after legacies of £100 to each of his brothers' children and the legacy of the proceeds of all his cattle sheep and hogs to a 'mulato woman Amelia.' His executors included Donald Ross junior, proprietor of half Port Morant, as well as his brothers Hector, John and George Ross.

T71/437 p. 310.

1. David Alston, Slaves and Higlhanders, http://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/index.asp?pageid=302656 [accessed 10/10/2018].

2. PROB 11/1701/247.