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Guanaboa

Jamaica | St Catherine

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
- 1740 [LA] → Previous owner
Peter Beckford junior

Gauci used information from Peter Beckford's estate inventory. Beckford died in 1735.

- 1734 [EY] → Not known
Cope Freeman

Cope Freeman bequeathed an estate at Guanaboa in his will proved 1734, evidently as owner. This estate passed to John Cope Freeman. It is not clear whether the estate associated with Peter Beckford was the same estate.

1742 [EA] - 1767 [LA] → Owner
John Cope Freeman
1754 [EA] - 1754 [LA] → Owner
Alderman William Beckford

Estate Information (6)

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1740
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
 

Peter Beckford's estate inventory noted that he was a co-owner and that the value of the stock was £3043 Jamaican pounds. The crop was valued at £1325 Jamaican pounds.

 
Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.44
1742
[Name] [no name given]  
[Crop] rum and sugar  
 

Accounts filed for 16th Aug - 11th Dec. Estate of John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by Anne Bermingham widow and executrix of Gerald Bermingham deceased late attorney of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 17
1754
[Name] Guamaboa  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The several Estates of William Beckford, under the direction of Richard Lewing & John Mclead. Account filed by Richard Lewing, one of the attorneys. Retreat, Rock River, Malmsey Valley, Danks, Karys's Cralie, Moores, Harbour Head, Stanton, Esher, Guamaboa, Seven Mile Walk, Stanton Estates. Crops are for all the estates combined.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 3
1763
[Name] Guanaboa  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee, cattle.  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman. Account filed by Andrew Hoshy as overseer.

 
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1764
[Name] Guanaboa  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee, cattle.  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by Sir George Fraancis Hampson and Andrew Wallen as his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4
1767
[Name] Guanaboa  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by Sir George Francis Hampson and Andrew Wallen as his attorneys. A "runaway negroe woman transported and sold" for the sum of �65.

 
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