Boro Bridge

Estate Details


Associated People (12)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1792 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Previous owner

Tentative association between the enslaved people owned by the estate of Stephen Breary in 1792 and those owned by the estate of Stephen Breary in 1817.

1811 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner

The enslaved were registered to Abraham Mason in 1811, although the estate appears to have been jointly owned by Stephen Breary and his heirs

1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Receiver
1822 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Previous owner
1823 [EA] - → Executor
1826 [EA] - → Receiver
1829 [EA] - → Agent
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Joint owner

Associated Claims (2)

£553 1S 12D
£3,854 10S 7D

Estate Information (25)

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1792
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 44  
 

Owned by Stephen Breary.

 
'A list of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly', Edward Long Papers, Add. 12435, transcribed at htt
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Brearey?s  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to Abraham Mason.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1810, hence the earlier transcription date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot) 28(F) 21(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Mason as owner.

 
T 71/43 788-790
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 24(Tot) 13(F) 11(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Mason as to one equal half part thereof undivided as owner and as to the other half part thereof as receiver to the estate of Stephen Breary or Stephen Briary [?], deceased.

 
T 71/43 790-791
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)  
[Name] Breary's  
 

Registered to John Mason.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al06.htm. The 1818 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1817, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 101  
 

Registered to John Mason.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot) 14(F) 9(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Mason as to one equal half part of this undivided as owner and as to the other half part thereof as receiver to the estate of Stephen Breary, deceased.

 
T 71/44 414
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot) 40(F) 42(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Mason as owner [increase by purchase of 8 enslaved men and 8 women from Messrs. Dunn and Dallar as attorneys to Mrs. Mary Israell and registered in Clarendon, 1817, of 10 men and 6 women from the estate of Richard Mason, deceased, registered at St Ann's, under writ of venditionis exponas; of 2 men from estate of John Costable; of 2 men and 1 woman from estate of Henry John Wisdom; of 1 woman from the Collecting Constable of St Ann's, having been levied on for taxes due by Basil Couper Chrystie.

 
T 71/44 414-416
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] number torn  
 

Registered to John Mason.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Burrow Bridge  
[Stock] 76  
 

Registered to the estate of John Mason.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 24(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Elizabeth R Mason as executrix of John Mason, deceased, owner of one half part of undivided property and of the other half thereof as receiver to the estate of Stephen Breary.

 
T 71/45 511-512
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Elizabeth R Mason as executrix of John Mason, deceased.

 
T 71/45 512-513
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Burrow Bridge  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to the estate of John Mason.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Burrow Bridge  
[Stock] 62  
 

Registered to the estate of John Mason.

 
Jamaica Alamanc (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot)  
[Name] Borobridge Estate  
 

In the possession of Hamilton Brown as receiver for Borobridge Estate.

 
T 71/46 88-89
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hamilton Brown as receiver for Borobridge Estate.

 
T 71/46 105-106
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Burrow Bridge  
 

Registered to the estate of Jason Mason.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
[Name] Boroughbridge  
 

Registered to Messrs. Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Boro bridge  
 

In the possession of Hamilton Brown as agent of Messrs. W R Mitchell and S Mitchell & Co. [increase in enslaved people mainly by removal from Peckham Plantation, Clarendon to Boro Bridge in St Ann's].

 
T 71/48 [unpaginated]
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hamilton Brown as the agent of Messrs W R and S Mitchell & Co for a moiety of an undivided property of the estate of Stephen Breary deceased.

 
T 71/47 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Boroughbridge  
[Stock] 67  
 

Registered to William R. S. Mitchell and Co.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Boroughbridge  
[Stock] 89  
 

Registered to William R. S. Mitchell and Co.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] Boro Bridge  
 

In the possession of Hamilton Brown as attorney of Messrs. W R and S Mitchell and Co, owners of Boro Bridge.

 
T 71/50 523
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hamilton Brown as attorney of Messrs. Mitchell & Co for an undivided moiety of [the estate of?] Stephen Breary, deceased.

 
T 71/49 86
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Boroughbridge  
[Stock] 96  
 

Registered to R. & S. Mitchell & Co.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.