Polnitz Byndloss

Profile & Legacies Summary

1683 - 1730

Biography

Son of Colonel Robert Byndloss (1636-1687) and his wife Anna Petronella nee Morgan. Baptised 17/08/1683. Member of Assembly for St Catherine 1724-5; St Thomas-in-the-Vale, 1726-8. Will proved 28/03/1730. Married 24/05/1710 to Catharine, daughter of Matthew Gregory, Speaker in 1705, and sister of Dr Matthew Gregory.

Polnetz Byndloss of St Catherine, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1731. Slave-ownership at probate: 160 of whom 96 were listed as male and 64 as female. 40 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £6958.55 Jamaican currency of which £4236 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £133.8 currency plate.

Sources

Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919) vol. 3 pp. 260-265, 'Byndloss of Jamaica'.

Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.

Further Information

Spouse

Catharine Gregory

Children

Robert (1713/14-1753), Anna Petronella (1711-1711), Jane (1712-), Catharine (1717/18-1720/1), Mahhew (1721-), Anna (1724-)

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