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Daniel Wait

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Biography

Overseer on Bloxburgh estate in Port Royal c. 1820. Described by Benjamin McMahon as 'crafty and cruel - a man that had no feeling for any human being but himself - his orders were announced like a tempest sending every reed weeping to the ground.'


Sources

Benjamin McMahon, Jamaica Plantership: Eighteen Years Employed in the Planting Line in that Island (1839) p. 22.

We are grateful to Siddharth Singh Ahlawat for his assistance with compiling this entry.

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1820 [EA] - → Overseer
Bloxburgh [Kellerman's] [ Jamaica | Port Royal ]