Col.
Peter
Beckford
Sr.
Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of Peter Beckford
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Bridgett Beeston
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Peter Beckford Jr.
Died
at about age 67
in Spanish Town, Saint Catherine, Jamaica
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Nov 2014
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Biography
Baptized Nov 19, 1643 at St. James, Clerkenwell, London, England.
Governor of Jamaica in 1702, where he first emigrated in 1662, probably following the footsteps of his uncle, Captain Richard Beckford, who was trading there since 1659.
His second wife, Anne, was a relative of Colonel Thomas Ballard, a leading planter. In the cathedral at Spanish Town, where he was buried, is a white marble slab in his memory, inscribed: “Here lyes Interr’d the body of the Honble. Coll. Peter Beckford, late Presidt. of the Councill, sometime Lieut. Govr. and Commander in Chief of this Island, who departed this life the 3rd Apr. 1710 in the 67th year of his age.”
Sources
- "The Peerage" Website
Jamaican connections in Livorno #2: The Beckfords Friday, Oct 8 2010
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NYBY-6BF : 21 September 2020), Peter Beckford, 1643.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Beckford
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Peter by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Peter:
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