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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.


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