Berrydale

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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
1792 [EA] - 1796 [EY] → Owner
1798 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Previous owner
1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Receiver
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Receiver

Estate Information (22)

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1792
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 22  
 

Owned by Richard Brodie. A tentative association for this listing as Berrydale.

 
'A list of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly', Edward Long Papers, Add. 12435, transcribed at htt
1797
[Name] Berry Dale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account given and filed by David Watson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 108
1798
[Name] Berry Dale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to the estate of Richard Brown [possibly = Brodie?] deceased. Account filed by David Watson as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 125
1798
[Name] Berrydale  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Ann 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.
1799
[Name] Berrydale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by David Watson overseer. Belonging to the Heirs of Richard Brodie deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 130-131
1800
[Name] Berrydale Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Includes one half share for carrying and manufacturing Flamstead canes into sugar and rum, also one half share (?) Hall canes manufactured on the estate per written agreement with Joseph and Charles Clarke upon record and the whole of sugar and rum made from Concord Plantation, the property of Benjamin Henderson. Account filed by David Watson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 68-69
1801
[Name] Berrydale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum and pimento  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of Richard Brodie deceased. Account filed by David Watson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 82
1803
[Name] Berrydale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Richard Brodie Esq deceased (including one half share of Hamstead and Allen Hall crops manufactured on the estate and all sugar to rum produced from Concord Plantation). Account filed by David Watson as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 196
1804
[Name] Berrydale Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, steers and bulls  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Brodie, Esq, deceased. Accounts include half of proceeds of Stanstead and Allan Hall Estate and all of the sugar and rum from Copeland Estate. Account filed in the name of David Watson, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 149
1807
[Name] Berridale  
[Crop] sugar, rum, fustic, pimento, logwood, , livestock and old iron boiler  
 

Account filed by Oswald Brodie as manager and joint proprietor of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 44
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
[Name] Berrydale  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to Richard Brodie, deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Ann.htm. The 1811 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
[Name] Berrydale  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to Richard Brodie, deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1810, hence the earlier transcription date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
[Name] Berrydale  
[Stock] 129  
 

Registered to Oswald Brodie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15ann.htm. The 1816 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1815, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] Berrydale  
[Stock] 143  
 

Registered to Oswald Brodie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_02.htm. The 1817 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1816, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot) 42(F) 42(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Oswald Brodie as receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery.

 
T 71/43 97-99
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)  
[Name] Berrydale  
[Stock] 135  
 

Registered to Oswald Brodie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al06.htm. The 1818 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1817, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)  
[Name] Berrydale  
[Stock] 103  
 

Registered to the estate of Richard Brodie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] Berrydale  
[Stock] 126  
 

Registered to the estate of Richard Brodie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot) 43(F) 41(M)  
[Name] Berrydale Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert H Scott as receiver for Berrydale Estate [6 deaths, 4 births].

 
T 71/44 74-75
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
[Name] Berriedale  
[Stock] 135  
 

Registered to the estate of Richard Brodie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
[Name] Berrydale Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert H Scott as receiver in Chancery for Berrydale Estate.

 
T 71/45 46
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot)  
[Name] Berriedale  
[Stock] 128  
 

Registered to the estate of Richard Brodie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.