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Benjamin Wyllis or Wyllys

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Resident slave-owner of Jamaica.

Benjamin Wyllis was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 44 acres of land in St David and 270 acres of land in St Elizabeth, total 314 acres.

Wyllis and Hall were listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owners of 1300 acres of land in St Thomas-in-the-East; this probably refers to Benjamin Wyllis or Wyllys and William Hall (q.v.), given that Benjamin Wyllys had a son named William Hall Wyllys.

Benjamin Wyllys of St Thomas-in-the-East, planter. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1761. Slave-ownership at probate: 99 of whom 60 were listed as male and 39 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £3965.52 Jamaican currency of which £2432.75 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £0 currency debts and £93.27 currency plate.


Sources

"A List of landholders in the Island of Jamaica together with the number of acres each person possessed taken from the quit rent books in the year 1754", TNA CO 142/31 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/1754lead.htm.

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

Further Information

Occupation
Planter

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
1761 [EA] - 1767 [LA] → Previous owner
Mount Lebanus Estate [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Shown against the estate of Benjamin Wyllys deceased between 1761 and 1767.

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Benjamin Wyllys
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