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Bonavista

Jamaica | St Elizabeth

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
1804 [EA] - → Overseer
John Collins
1806 [EA] - 1806 [LA] → Joint owner
William Dickinson I

Possibly refers to William Dickinson II: his father William Dickinson I died in 1806.

1806 [EA] - 1806 [LA] → Joint owner
Barnard Dickinson
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
William Dickinson II
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Jeremiah Harman
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
John Salmon junior

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St Elizabeth 5 (Pepper Pen & Bona Vista)
£5,596 0S 8D

Estate Information (14)

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1804
[Name] Bona Vista Plantation  
[Crop] Mares, horses, fillies, mules, cows and fat cattle  
 

Owner not given. Account filed in the name of John Collins, overseer to said estate. Pepper and Bona Vista Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 126
1806
[Name] Bonavista Pen  
[Crop] Livestock, logwood, certificate of valuation??, manumission of enslaved people and purses won  
 

Property of Bernard and William Dickenson Esqs.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 223
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 460(Tot)  
[Name] Bonavista  
[Stock] 460  
 

Registered to Dickenson and Harman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot)  
[Name] Bonavista  
[Stock] 407  
 

Registered to Dickenson and Harmans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Bonavista  
[Stock] 415  
 

Registered to Dickenson and Harmans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)  
[Name] Bonavista  
[Stock] 345  
 

Registered to Dickenson and Harmans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Bonavista  
[Stock] 400  
 

Registered to Dickenson and Harmans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
[Name] Bonavista  
[Stock] 600  
 

Registered to Dickenson and Harmans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 279(Tot) 142(F) 137(M)  
[Name] Pepper and Bona Vista pens  
 

In the possession of John Salmon jun. as attorney to Messrs. Dickinson and Harmans.

 
T71/171 [Unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot)  
[Name] Bonavista  
[Stock] 223  
 

Registered to Dickenson and Harman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Name] Bona Vista  
[Stock] 400  
 

Registered to Dickenson and Harman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot)  
[Name] Pepper Pen and Bona Vista Pen  
 

In the possession of John Salmon junior Esquire as attorney.

 
T71/176 266
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot)  
[Name] Bonavista  
[Stock] 497  
 

Registered to Dickenson and Harmans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Pepper and Bonavista  
[Size] 4100  
 

Registered to Dickenson and Harman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Eliza.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.