Peter Jefferys or Jeffereys

Absentee slave-owner on Nevis, not traced directly by LBS but appearing in genealogical material online. A letter in the Slave Compensation records sketched the background to his interest in the Spring Valley estate.

1. Born in Nevis, West Indies in 1782 to John Latysionere [sic] Jefferys and Elizabeth Browne. Peter Jefferys married Mary Ann Hodgkinson and had 4 children. He reportedly died on 10 Feb 1859 in Liege, Belgium.

2. 'The Hon. Peter Jefferys, a lieutenant-colonel in the English Army. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he was graduated as a physician, after which he returned to Nevis. He was Lieutenant-Governor of the island; his official title being, "President of the Council of Nevis." One of his sons, Charles P. B. Jefferys, pursued his early studies in Antwerp, later entering the University of Liège where he took the course in Mining Engineering, at the same time taking a liberal course in the Classics. At eighteen years old he went to the United States of America, where his father had friends and property. Charles' son Rev. Dr. Edward Miller Jeffreys spent 31 years as rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.'

Given as Peter Jeffereys in the compensation records; T71/1038: claim made by Robert Ferries, attorney to Peter Jeffereys. Statement in explanation from Robert Hale, Ely Place, dated 05/02/1836 stating that the will of Peter Bowden 20/03/1764 and 17/03/1783, gave half the estate each to nephews Timothy Jefferys for life and John Latoysonere [sp?] Jefferys for life; Peter Jeffereys was son of J.L. Jeffereys, Doctor of Physick.

1. http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/peter-jefferys_80450448 (source 10/08/2015)

2. http://alanjheavens.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/edward-m-jefferys-obituary.html (sourced 10/08/2015)