Joseph Barnes (merchant)

Joseph Barnes (ca 1765 - 6 May 1829)[1] was a merchant and slave-owner in Jamaica.[2] He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820.[3]

Barnes was living in Jamaica by 1808 and acquired Cumberland Penn, Portmore, Saint Catherine in 1809.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Joseph Barnes Will, 1831". George A. Smathers Libraries. University of Florida. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  2. ↑ Joseph Barnes. Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  3. ↑ Hakewill, James. (1825) A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, From Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821. London: Hurst and Robinson & E. Lloyd. p. 13.


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