Thornton

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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
1800 [EA] - → Owner
1805 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner

Estate Information (5)

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1799
[Name] Thornton  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Elizabeth as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1805
[Name] Thornton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock and logwood  
 

In possession of Issac Allen et al executors and trustees under the will of Alexander Rankin Esq. deceased. Account filed by James Jones as overseer. Filed for 27th Aug 1804-conclusion of crop 1805.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 142-143
1806
[Name] Thornton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, mortgage account, sundry stores, carpentry work, logwood and hire of enslaved people.  
 

In possession of Issac Allen et al executors and trustees under the will of Alexander Rankin Esq. deceased. Account filed by Issac Allen as one of the executors and trustees to the estate. Filed for 1st Aug 1805-1st Aug 1806.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 143-144
1807
[Name] Thornton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock and logwood  
 

Account filed by James Creighton as overseer. Filed for Crop of 1806-conclusion of crop 1807.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 143
1808
[Name] Thorton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, shingles, carpenter hire, livestock, veal and logwood  
 

In possession of Issac Allen et al executors and trustees under the will of Alexander Rankin Esq. deceased. Account filed by Henry Donne as overseer. Filed for 1st Aug 1807-1st Aug 1808.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 145-146