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Berkshire

Jamaica | Trelawny

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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
1796 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
Richard Brissett

Notes

Not identified in the slave registers or compensation records. Aparently owned by Richard Brissett, who also owned Hampshire, so possible amalgamated with this estate as they are contiguous in the 1804 map.

Estate Information (8)

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1796
[Name] Berkshire Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the late Richard Brissett, Esq, deceased. Account given by George Brissett,acting executor and trustee. Account filed by George McCulloch, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 58
1797
[Name] Berkshire Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the late Richard Brissett, Esq, deceased. Account given by George Brissett,acting executor and trustee. Account filed by Alexander McIntosh, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 125
1798
[Name] Berkshire  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of Richard Brissett Esq deceased in the possession of George Brissett Esq only acting executor and trustee. Account filed by Roderick Campbell as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 122-123
1799
[Name] Berkshire  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawny 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.
1799
[Name] Berkshire Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, copper  
 

Account filed by Robert McLaren overseer. Belonging to the late Richard Brissett Esquire deceased and in the possession of George Brissett Esquire only acting Executor and Trustee.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 149
1800
[Name] Berkshire Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late Richard Bressett and in the possession of George Bressett Esq only acting Exor and Trustee. Account filed by Robert McLaren as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 58
1803
[Name] Berkshire Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Brissett Esq deceased in the possession of George Brissett receiver. Account filed by Roderick Campbell as overseer for the period 01/02/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 183-184
1807
[Name] Berkshire  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Account filed by Rodderic McDonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 142