James Rigby

Agent with Edward Pratter (q.v.) of the South Sea Co. in Jamaica.

James Rigby of St John, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1742. Slave-ownership at probate: 138 of whom 69 were listed as male and 69 as female. 26 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £6843.77 Jamaican currency of which £3962 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £1067.38 currency debts and £42.26 currency plate.

"In 1744 a private act was passed for the sale of 3 parcels of uncultivated land for payment of his debts and legacies and for preserving the profitable part of his estate."

The estate of James Rigby was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 15 acres of land in St Catherine, 1300 acres in St John and 1365 acres in St Thomas-in-the-Vale, total 2680 acres.

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

W. A. Feurtado, Official and Other Personages of Jamaica from 1655 to 1790 Compiled from Various Sources (1896), transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/bfeurtado06.htm.

"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