Associated People (3) |
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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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1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner
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1815 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Previous owner
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1829 [EA] - → Other
Purchased enslaved people from this estate |
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Not identified in the slave compensation records. 38 of these enslaved people were sold to Charles Dewdney (q.v.) at some point between 1826 and 1829. |
Estate Information (18) |
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1798
[Name] Font Hill
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
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1810
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)
[Name] Fonthill [Stock] 64 Registered to John Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)
[Name] Fonthill Registered to John Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1811.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)
[Name] Fonthill [Stock] 47 Registered to estate of John Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1815.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot) 88(F) 58(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Peter Robertson, Hew Snodgrass and Kenneth McPherson as Executors of John Stewart (deceased).
T71/145 731-734
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)
[Name] Fonthill [Stock] 29 Registered to estate of John Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1817.
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)
[Name] Fonthill [Stock] 5 Registered to estate of John Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1819.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)
[Name] Fonthill [Stock] 5 Registered to estate of John Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1820.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Kenneth Macpherson Esq as attorney to the Heirs of John Stewart decd.
T71/146 426-427
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)
[Name] Fonthill [Stock] 68 Registered to estate of John Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1821.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Kenneth Macpherson as attorney for the Heirs of John Stewart decd.
T71/147 342-343
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)
[Name] Font Hill [Stock] 64 Registered to estate of John Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1823.
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)
[Name] Font Hill [Stock] 50 Registered to estate of John Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1825.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)
[Name] Font Hill [Stock] 52 Registered to estate of John Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1826.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)
[Name] Fonthill Estate In the possession of Archibald Dick as attorney for Fonthill Estate, the property of the Heirs of John Stewart decd.
T71/148 334-335
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)
[Name] Font Hill Registered to estate of John Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1827.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)
[Name] Font Hill Registered to James Reid.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1828.
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1829
[Name] Fonthill Estate
In the possession of James McCunn as attorney to the Trustees for the sale of Fonthill Estate.
T71/149 [unpaginated]
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1729 - 1809
Quaker merchant and banker, abolitionist who manumitted enslaved people in Jamaica
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Font Hill [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/14397 [accessed 19th April 2024].
