Samuel Greatheed

The Greatheed family probably emigrated to St. Kitts in 1663, after forfeiting their estate near Leeds to the Crown for non-payment of taxes.

[2] John Greatheed purchased land near the capital, Basseterre, in the early eighteenth century to form what became the Canaries plantation.

[2][3] Greatheed was sent to the UK in 1718 to stay with his grandfather and was educated in Bradford;[4] at 19 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, on 4 April 1730, and Trinity College, Cambridge, on 4 May 1730.

[4] He remained in the UK, and the estate continued to be managed by his brother, Craister (Christopher) Greatheed until 1772.

to his wife Lady Mary secured on his estate and enslaved people in St Kitts.