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Ann's Castle

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Associated People (2)

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
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
Ann Bygrave
1825 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
William Jackson

Notes

This estate has not been identified in the 1817 slave register; however in 1820 Ann Bygrave stated she had registered enslaved people in 1817.

The estate was owned by Ann Bygrave in 1820 and 1823, according to the slave registers, and the almanacs give it the name Ann's Hall. The almanacs show Ann's Hall as registered to William Jackson from 1826 to 1840 but if he purchased the enslaved people as well as the land then he will have registered the enslaved people on one of his larger estates (Bannister, Blue Hole, Retreat and Masters) from 1826 onwards.

Estate Information (13)

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1798
[Name] Whim  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Dorothy as a sugar estate with a cattlemill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 22(Tot) 10(F) 12(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Ann Bygrave as owner.

 
T71/14 92
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 22(Tot)  
[Name] Ann's Castle  
 

Registered to Ann Bygrave.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] Ann's Castle  
 

Registered to Ann Bygrave.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot) 9(F) 14(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Ann Bygrave as owner.

 
T71/15 20
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 13(Tot)  
[Name] Ann's Castle  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 13(Tot)  
[Name] Ann's Castle  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Ann's Castle and Bannister  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 73  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 13(Tot)  
[Name] Ann's Castle  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stivdor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 13(Tot)  
[Name] Ann's Castle  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot)  
[Name] Ann's Castle  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot)  
[Name] Ann's Castle  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Ann's Castle  
[Size] 43  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Dorothy.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.