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Jamaica Archives, Manumissions 18/25, entered March 12, 1789.
It
is interesting to speculate whether the mulatto slave Nelly—clearly the
daughter of a white man and a black woman—in choosing the surname Price
was indicating that she was actually daughter, as well as property, of
one of the Prices. Similarly, it is conceivable that Eleanor Price was
at least half-sister of the mulatto Susannah Price who became mistress
of Dr. John Quier. If true, this would provide a genetic link to explain
the closeness of Prices, Quiers, and Douglases.
There was
also a Catherine Price, mulatto aged 34, christened at Swansea on Nov.
25, 1809; I.R.O., St. John's Parish Register, 1759-1825, Baptisms.
The section which follows appears to list the baptisms, but the
source document is not clear, and the identifying symbols are badly
transcribed and positioned.
P PRICE j
JOHN QUIER =j
f SUSANNAH ?NASH
f NELLY ® j
A
PRICE © * A
later
ELEANOR
PRICE
CATHERINE ©
I
DOUGLAS
A
©LIZETTE j ROSE PRICE A ten children
I-1
©ELIZABETH JOHN A
Key:
A white male
A octoroon or mestee
male
© black female
© mulatto female
^ quadroon female
©
octoroon or mestee female
I.R.O., Wills 100/57, entered
December 20, 1821.
The 10 children were to share all movable
property and to hold Point Hill Plantation as "tenants in common" until
it was convenient to sell or dispose of it. To Eleanor Price were
given specific bequests and £ 20 Currency per year. Lizette Nash
received £70 Currency.
The executors, guardians, and trustees were
John Douglas of Kingston, William Douglas of St. George's, James
Grant and John Quier of St. John's. In fact, Peter Douglas' slaves seem
to have been apportioned before he died.
In the 1817 return he is
not credited with any, but Eleanor Douglas Price is listed as having
7;
John Quier Douglas, 13;
Robert Ross Douglas, 18;
Edmund Jordon
Douglas, 19;
Sholto Douglas, 15;
Catherine Douglas, 15;
Eliza
Douglas, 14;
Louisa Douglas, 13;
Mary Douglas, 14; and
Lizette Price
Nash, 4;
Jamaica Archives, Register of Returns of Slaves, 1817-1838,
vol. 19, pp. 203-207.
By 1823 this total of 132 had fallen to 94,
with Sholto Douglas, Louisa Douglas, and Mary Douglas no longer
listed.
Of the huge Douglas household the following were baptized
together at Point Hill on June 20,1796:
Eleanor Price,
Elizabeth
Price,
Catherine Douglas,
Elizabeth Douglas,
John Quier Douglas,
Sholto Douglas,
Archibald Douglas,
Robert Douglas,
Louisa Douglas.
Edmund Jordan Douglas and Charlotte Simpson Douglas were baptized on
March 31,1799. Elizabeth Price Nash was not baptized until April 2,
1814, at Dr. Quier's Shady Grove, at the age of 19.
An Eliza
Douglas, "free child," was baptized at Point Hill on July 8, 1816;
I.R.O., St. John's Parish Register, 1759-1825, Baptisms.
Catherine Douglas; owner of Point Hill, St John, Jamaica (1817-1826).
Her executors c1829 included (brothers) Robert Ross Douglas and John Quier Douglas. John Quier Douglas of St John and Elizabeth Morant of St Dorothy, free people of colour, married in Clarendon, 05/01/1815
In 1826, 15 enslaved people 6(F) 9(M) were in the possession of John
Quier Douglas as Administrator on the Estate of Edmond Jordan Douglas
deceased
In 1827, 14 enslaved people at Point Hill were registered to
John Quier Douglas, administrator.
In 1832, there were 2.
In
1817, the following were registered as having slaves in St. John:
Douglas, James, 12
Douglas, John Quier, 16/7
Douglas, Edmund Jordan, 17/3
Douglas, Catherine, 14
Douglas, Charlotte, 14/4
Douglas, Eliza, 13/4
Douglas, Louisa, 13/2
Douglas, Mary R., 17/1
Douglas, Robert Ross, 18/2
Douglas, Sholto, 13/3
In
1828, the following were listed as being at Point Hill:
Douglas, Catherine, Point Hill, 13
Douglas, Catherine, administrator, Point Hill, 6
Douglas, Eliza, Point Hill, 15
Douglas, George, Point Hill, 5/4
Douglas, John Quier, Point Hill, 16
Douglas, John Quier, administrator, Point Hill 14
Douglas, Louisa, Point Hill, 19
Douglas, Mary M., Point Hill, 17/3
Henry, Peter Samuel, (Retirement, 4), and Robert Ross, 15/2 are also on the same list.
Notes:
• Point Hill is an estate in Jamaica that was registered to John Quier Douglas in 1817.
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