I received your posting to the Caribbean mailing list and was interested to read that you have located family members in St Vincent. I am looking for any information about the life of my great grandfather - John Henry Dunlop Patton, born in Kingstown ST Vincent in 1835. Could you tell me how you found your information please? I have been looking for five years! Thanks Di Coghlan ----- Original Message ----- From: <MReilly169@aol.com> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 4:45 AM Subject: Re: "Planter" > I don't know about Barbados, but I can tell you that my ggrandfather on St. Vincent, who was from a "coloured" family although light enough to "pass," (as it would be put in the US) is described in a number of legal documents as a "Planter," and so are two of his associates, brothers, who I have pretty good reason to believe were also of mixed race and may have been his first cousins. I only have a photo of one of them (the associates, I mean), but he looks decidedly un-European. Among the three of them, they controlled a good portion of the agricultural land in SV betweem 1880 and 1900, more or less. > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > ROOTSWEB MAILING LIST HELP PAGES > What is a Mailing List? > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/mail1.html >