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Joseph Barnes (merchant)

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

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

References

  1. ^ "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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