Hi Folks....... I was just composing a post with regard to Chris' BBC statements on the subject of the order of children when a friend of mine who also does transcribing for a Jamaican site sent me this for the Cumberland researchers. It just goes to point out that the younger sons did EXTREMELY well in some instances.....pardon the HTML, but wanted to present it as Dorothy Kew did when she sent it to me........ Dorothy is an excellent genealogist who taught me what genealogy was all about and I know that she has interests in a Sewell in the CUL region, but so far hasn't found them. So enjoy and in particular......notice how many properties this man owned!!! (Pens are smaller estates). And Chris.....for the record, the BBC never met my family, grin........we don't fit into their classifications at all!! I am the oldest.....and have never been the quiet one, lol. Best..........Heather ---------------------------------------- >From the Daily Gleaner and DeCordova's Advertising Sheet, October 15, 1872: THE LATE WILLIAM SEWELL There are few to whom Trelawny has been more largely indebted than to the lamented gentleman whose decease we deplore. Large districts of the parish have undoubtedly, through his instrumentality alone, been maintained in cultivation. It is indeed no exaggeration to say, that most, if not all, of the numerous estates with which as attorney, lessee, or proprietor, he from time to time became connected, were by his skilful management, to the benefit of all classes, redeemed from threatened abandonment. The large measure of success which has attended his career as a sugar planter, a career in this parish extending over a period of thirty-four years, has been the well-merited result of the exercise of the soundest judgment ... and unswerving rectitude which characterized his every dealing... Mr. Sewell died possessed of Vale Royal, Arcadia, Lottery, Water Valley, and Gibraltar Estates, and Grange Pen, in Trelawny; Drax Hall and Cave Valley Estates, and Home Castle, Dornock, Hyde Park, and Dover Castle Penns, in St. Ann; all left by him in the highest state of cultivation. He was a native of Cumberland, but from his 21st year was a resident in Jamaica, engaged from first to last in agricultural pursuits. He died at Georgia Estate in this parish, the residence of Simon Thomson, Esquire, and was interred in Swanswick Church yard on the morning of the 8th. DQ