

JAMAICAN FAMILIES. 97 



II Gen. i, 9 . S. M. Eyes gray; hair light brown (?) ; skin say N 2 per cent. 

 2, 9 Z. M., 7 years. Eyes dark brown; hair medium brown, 



slightly curly; hardly pass for white; skin 8, 51, 21, 20. 

 3,9.1 year. Eyes blue ; hair flaxen ; no sign of colored blood ; 



skin 2, 33, 24, 41. 



Pedigree 53. P. Family. 



I Gen. Nine children had a very "fair" father, P., whose parents were 

 practically white. He has brown eyes and very curly 

 auburn hair. Their mother, whose father was white by 

 law (see Pedigree 51, II Generation, 6) and whose mother 

 was pure black, has brown eyes, black, almost straight 

 hair; skin 22, 42, 17, 19. She looks a little like a coolie. 



1. The first son, G. P., who has dark brown eyes and 

 typical kinky black hair, skin 30, 34, 19, 17, married a 

 light-colored woman with somewhat negroid features, 

 wavy, dark brown hair, and skin 14, 40, 22, 24, by whom he 

 had six children (II 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). 



2. Another son, G. P., who has very curly black hair, 

 and skin say N 25 per cent, has a wife whose father would 

 pass for white and whose mother is part Scotch. She has 

 dark brown eyes; dark brown, fairly curly hair; skin 25, 45, 

 15, 15. They have three children (II 7, 8, 9). His wife's 

 sister, E. S., has very curly black hair; skin 27, 40, 16, 17. 



3. A daughter, who has dark brown eyes, very curly 

 black hair and skin 15, 47, 16, 22, married L., now dead, 

 said to have had very wavy, coarse brown hair, and skin 

 say N 17 per cent. His father was part French, and his 

 mother, whose photograph looks very like a white person, 

 had long, dark brown, straight hair, and skin perhaps N 

 8 per cent. Four children were born to them (II 10, 11, 

 12, 13). 



4. A third son, H. P., with curly hair, and skin say N 

 20 per cent, had a wife who was part Jew and part colored, 

 with black, straight hair. She died at the birth of her 

 daughter, S. P., now 3 years old; eyes dark brown; hair 

 brown, straight but wavy on the ends; skin 15, 50, 19, 16. 



5, 9 . V. P. Fairer than any of her sibs; kinky hair. 



6, cf P. Very like I 2. 



7-9, d'd*. About same complexion, say N 15. 

 II Gen. 1, o 71 . N. P., 13 years. Hair black and slightly wavy: skin 35, 42, 

 14, 9. He is much darker than either parent. 



2, 9.1. P., 10 years. Hair dark brown, curly; skin 18, 39, 20, 23. 



3, 9 . B. P., 8 years. Hair dark brown, curly; skin 15, 32, 25, 28. 



4, cf . G. P., 6 years. Hair medium brown, curly; skin 15, 32, 25, 28. 



5, 9 . V. P., 3 years. Hair dark brown, curly; skin 15, 43, 21, 21. 



6, 9 t 2 years. Skin between II 1 and II 2. 



7, 9 . R. P., 3 years. Eyes dark brown; hair dark brown, curly; 



skin 29, 42, 17, 12. 



8, c? . E. P., 2 years. Eyes gray, hair bright red,* kinky; a creamy 



white skin 7, 41, 23, 29. 



* The mother explains his red hair by stating that, when pregnant, she used to make 

 fun of a red-haired person. 



