UCL

Unknown [hired to Chesterfield?]

Jamaica | Port Royal

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
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
George Douglas MacMillan
1823 [EA] - → Other
James Muir
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Elizabeth Muir
1829 [EA] - → Other
James McCunn
1832 [EA] - → Previous owner
Elizabeth Muir
1832 [EA] - → Tenant in possession
David McCunn

Notes

A group of enslaved people owned by Elizabeth Muir between at least 1820 and 1829. They had been moved to St Mary (JA16323) by 1832. While in Port Royal they may have worked on Chesterfield estate, owned by James Muir.

Estate Information (5)

What is this?

1820
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George D. McWilliam as attorney for James Muir the attorney of Elizabeth Muir.

 
T71/120 64
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of G. D. McMillan Esquire as attorney to James Muir Esquire, representative of Elizabeth Muir.

 
T71/121 205-206
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 17(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James McCunn Esquire as attorney to James Muir Esquire and attorney to Elizabeth Muir.

 
T71/122 88
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot) 9(F) 9(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James McCunn as attorney to James Muir Esquire representative of Elizabeth Muir.

 
T71/123 143
1832
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of David McCunn as tenant in possession (being the property of the heirs of Elizabeth Muir deceased). All by removal to St Mary.

 
T71/124 140