MS 681 01

Reference code

MS 681 01

Title

Moulton-Barrett family papers: Papers and portraits of Edward Barrett (1734-1798)

Level

Series

Administrative / Biographical history

Edward Barrett was the eighth child and youngest son of Samuel Barrett (1689-1760) and Elizabeth Wisdom (1707-1757). He inherited the substantial part of his father’s estate and became the patriarch of the future Barrett family in Jamaica. He married Judith Goodin in 1760. They had 5 children, George Goodin (1761-1795, Henry (1762-1794), Elizabeth (1763-1830), Samuel (1765-1794) and Sarah Goodin (1774-1781). They lived at Little River Great House and then began to build a more substantial house - Cinnamon Hill Great House, is St James Parish in the north of the island. He established the town of Falmouth in the 1780s, the future capital of Trelawny, from where his rum and sugar was trans-shipped to England and America. He became one of the island’s wealthiest and most influential planters, determined to preserve his plantation ‘empire’ and his family name. All three of his sons died between 1794 and 1795 before Edward died in 1798. He left his Cambridge, Oxford, Cinnamon Hill and Cornwall estates to his daughter Elizabeth Barrett Moulton’s two sons Edward and Samuel, on condition that they use the additional surname of Barrett.

Date

1774-1930

Extent & medium

1 file and 3 items

Content description

The series comprises papers of Edward Barrett relating to Barrett family estates and business in Jamaica and original, copies and reproductions of portraits of Edward Barrett passed down in the Barrett family

Arrangement

The series has been arranged into two sub-series:

01 Papers of Edward Barrett relating to his estates in Jamaica

02 Portraits of Edward Barrett passed down in the Barrett family