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Sir Charles Price 2nd Bart., of Jamaica

Profile & Legacies Summary

1732 - 18th Oct 1788

Biography

Son of Charles Price, 1st Bart. of Jamaica. Inherited his father's heavily indebted estates. Educated at Trinity College, Oxford. Returned to Jamaica in 1753 and became a member of the Jamaican Assembly. The overwhelming of his Jamaica property by debt is detailed by Craton and Walvin.

  1. Charles Price, 1st Bart. and his son Charles, 2nd Bart., contributed £100 to the University of Pennsylvania following Dr John Morgan's fundraising tour of the West Indies in 1772-1773.

Sources

Michael Craton and James Walvin, A Jamaican Plantation. The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970 (W.H. Allen, London and New York, 1970) pp. 157-162, 168-169; Stuart Handley, ‘Price, Sir Charles, first baronet (1708–1772)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22743, accessed 3 Oct 2014].

  1. C. S. Graubard, 'Documenting the University of Pennsylvania's Connection to Slavery (2018) via archives.upenn.edu [accessed 16/01/2019].

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Spouse
Elizabeth Woodcock nee Guy
Children
d.s.p.
University
Oxford (Trinity College) [1752 ]
Occupation
Planter

Associated Estates (12)

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
26/07/1772 [SD] - 1786 [EY] → Owner
Amity Hall [ Jamaica | St Dorothy ]
1775 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Owner
Burton's [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]
26/07/1772 [SD] - 1789 [EY] → Owner
Decoy Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1777 [EA] - → Owner
Farm Pen [ Jamaica | St Catherine ]
1775 [EA] - → Owner
Luidas [ Jamaica ]
26/07/1772 [SD] - 18/10/1788 [ED] → Owner
Mickleton Pen [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]
17/10/1788 [SD] - 1793 [EY] → Previous owner
Mickleton Pen [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]

Owned by the estate of Charles Price and leased out before being bought by his cousin John Price of Penzance in 1793.

1775 [EA] - 1778 [LA] → Owner
New Works [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]
1776 [EA] - 1778 [LA] → Owner
Rose Hall Estate [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]
26/07/1772 [SD] - 1779 [LA] → Owner
Shenton Estate [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]
1775 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Owner
Wallens [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]

From 1782 the estate was in the hands of the mortgagees, Hankey & Co. of London.

1772 [SY] - 1789 [EY] → Joint owner
Worthy Park [ Jamaica | St John ]

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Benefactor
University of Pennsylvania...... 
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Relationships (2)

Sir Charles Price 2nd Bart., of Jamaica
Son → Father
Sir Charles Price 1st Bart., of Jamaica
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Sir Charles Price 2nd Bart., of Jamaica
Second Husband → Wife
Lydia Ann Price
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