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Moreland

Jamaica | St James

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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] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Raynes Barrett Waite

Notes

Not identified in the slave registers. Possibly formed part of Blue Hole.

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1799
[Name] Moreland  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James 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.
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 283(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole & Moreland  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with Raynes Barrett Waite as the proprietor.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 27. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to Raynes Barrett Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole and Moreland  
[Stock] 191  
 

Registered to Raynes B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.