Associated People (6) |
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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:
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1783 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Owner
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1794 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Joint owner
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1794 [EA] - → Joint owner
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1803 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
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1839 [EA] - → Not known
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Associated Claims (2) |
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£2,726 2S 5D
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£638 4S 0D
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Estate Information (33) |
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1783
[Name] Halifax
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Bryan Bentley Esq. Account filed by John Ramsay as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 200-1
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1783
[Name] Halifax
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Brian Bentley Esq. Account filed by Joseph Dixon as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 8
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1786
[Name] Halifax Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of Bryan Bentley Esq; account filed by John Ramsay, planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 191
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1794
[Name] Hallifax Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of John Hodgson and Henry Williams Esq. s. Account filed by Richard Dickson for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 162-163
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1795
[Name] Hallifax Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow Property of John Hodgson and Henry Williams Esq.s. Account filed by said Henry Williams for the period 01/01/1795 to 31/12/1795.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 182-183
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1796
[Name] Hallifax Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to John Hodgson and Henry Williams. Account filed by Henry Williams.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1798
[Name] Halifax
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with a watermill 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.
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1800
[Name] Halifax Estate
[Crop] sugar (?) Belonging to John Hodgson Esq and Henry Williams Esq deceased. Account filed by Rus Williames Jones.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 105-106
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1801
[Name] Halifax Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum The properties of John Hodgson Esq and the Heirs of Henry Williams Esq deceased. Account filed by Rees Williams Jones and Wiliam Carmachan as overseers. Halifax Estate and Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 215
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1803
[Name] Halifax Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of Abraham Hodgson Esq and the heirs of Henry Williams Esq deceased. Account filed by William Carnochan as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803. Halifax Estate and Penn filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 229
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1807
[Name] Halifax
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper and cattle Belonging to Abraham Hodgson Esq. and the heirs of Henry Williams Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Carnochan as overseer. The estates of Halifax and Halifax Pen were filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 129
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1808
[Name] Halifax
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Belonging to Abraham Hodgson Esq. and the heirs of Henry Williams Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Carneshaw as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 193-194
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1810
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 160 Registered to Abraham Hodgson and H. Williams, deceased.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 176 Registered to Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 169 Registered to Hon. Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot) 74(F) 60(M)
[Name] Halifax Estate Abraham Hodgson, owner of one moiety and as receiver in Chancery of the other moiety.
T 71/33 977-981
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 62 Registered to Honorable Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 180 Registered to Honorable Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot) 76(F) 58(M)
[Name] Halifax Estate Abraham Hodgson, owner of one moiety and as receiver in Chancery of the other moiety.
T 71/34 146-146v
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 162 Registered to Honorable Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 146 Registered to Hon. Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot) 76(F) 56(M)
[Name] Halifax Estate Abraham Hodgson, owner of one moiety and as receiver in Chancery of the other moiety.
T 71/35 234-235
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 117 Registered to Hon. Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 90 Registered to Hon. Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot) 73(F) 57(M)
[Name] Halifax Estate Abraham Hodgson, owner of one moiety and as receiver in Chancery of the other moiety.
T 71/36 490-491
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 20 Registered to Hon. Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 67 Registered to Hon. Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot) 72(F) 60(M)
[Name] Halifax Estate Abraham Hodgson, owner.
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 18 Registered to Hon. Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 12 Registered to Hon. Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)
[Name] Halifax [Stock] 2 Registered to Hon. Abraham Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot) 73(F) 63(M)
[Name] Halifax Estate Henry Cox, attorney to the Honble. A Hodgson, owner.
T 71/41 108
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1839
[Name] Halifax
[Size] 900 Registered to Isaac Scott Hodgson.
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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???? - 1848
Widow of prominent mahogany merchant and landowner
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Halifax Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/141 [accessed 11th June 2023].
