Swallowfield Estate and Pen

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Associated People (9)

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
1733 [SY] - 1784 [EY] → Joint owner
1754 [SY] - 1798 [EY] → Joint owner
1731 [SY] - 1754 [EY] → Joint owner
1754 [SY] - 1787 [EY] → Joint owner
1742 [EA] - 1752 [LA] → Joint owner

Shown as co-owner in 1752 although his estranged wife rather than the Earl is later shown as the owner.

1758 [EA] - 1758 [LA] → Owner
1803 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-for-life

Claimed as tenant-for-life for 47 enslaved people on Swallowfield.

1839 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£876 8S 2D

Notes

Slave register entries not identified after 1820.


Estate Information (51)

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1741
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar, rum and wood  
 

Estate of Temple and Elizabeth Laws. Account filed by John Merewether attorney to the said Temple and Elizabeth Laws. The estates of Swallowfield and Swallowfield Pen were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 130
1743
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Rookwood as overseer on the behalf of Matthew Gregory and Richard Halhead Esqs. attorneys to the estate. The estates of Swallowfield and Swallowfield Pen were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 68
1752
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Belonging to the Right Honourable the Earl of Home and Temple Lawes Esq. Account filed by James Watson merchant one of the attorneys for the said estate. The estates of Swallowfield, Swallowfield Pen, Templehall and Townwell were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 129
1753
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people, livestock and oznabrigg  
 

Estate with Watson Swymmer & Co. Account filed by Richard Maitland one of the attorneys for the estate. The estates of Swallowfield, Templehall, Townwell and Swallowfield Pen were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 172-173
1754
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, sheep  
 

Watson Swymmer (sp?) & Co. Account filed by Richard Maitland one of the attorneys. Swallowfield, Templehall Plantation, Townwell Plantation and Swallowfield Penn all filed together. Crops are for all of the estates.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 2
1758
[Name] Swallowfield Plantation (and mountain)  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, plantains  
 

Belonging to Simon Luttrell Esquire. Account filed by James Watson, one of the attorneys. Swallowfield, Templehall & Townwell Plantations all filed together. Crops filed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 92
1763
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Carmichael as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 135
1764
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Carmichael as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 135
1765
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Carmichael as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 135
1766
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Carmichael as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 16
1767
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Carmichael as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 75
1768
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Carmichael as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 136
1769
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Carmichael as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 188
1770
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Carmichael as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 21
1772
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Right Hon. Lord Irnham and the Hon. Countess of Home of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Arthur King as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 21
1775
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Arthur King as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 26
1776
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Arthur King as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 69
1778
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Arthur King as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 37
1779
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Arthur King as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 108
1781
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Beloning to the Right Honourable Lady Home and Lord Viscount Carhampton. Account filed by Arthur King, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 46
1783
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Right Hon. The Countess of Home and Lord Carhampton. Account filed by William Burke as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 45-6
1783
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Lady Home and Lord Irnham (sp). Account filed by Arthur King as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 201
1783
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Home. Account filed by William Block as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 27
1784
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Carhampton. Account filed by William Burke as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 166
1794
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William O"Brien a overseer for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 136-137
1795
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Joseph Roche, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 8
1796
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Jennings, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 84
1797
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Dowager Cashampton? Account filed by William Donlevy?, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 173
1798
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In St Andrew as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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.
1798
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, rents  
 

Account filed by George Kinghorn merchant of the parish of Kingston, one of the attornies of the Dowager Carhampton for the period 31/12/1797 to 16/06/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 252-253
1801
[Name] Swallowfield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Philip Sutton as Planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 200
1803
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the Hon Temple Lutterall deceased. Account filed by John Land planter overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 15
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
[Stock] 65  
 

Registered to James Dickson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Andr.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 249(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Stock] 72  
 

Registered to James Dickson senior.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812and.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to __ Lagourgue.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812and.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
[Stock] 50  
 

Registered to James Dickson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15andr.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield Estate and Iron River  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to James Dickson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
 

Registered to James Dickson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
 

Registered to James Dickson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
[Stock] 61  
 

Registered to estate of James Dickson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
[Stock] 48  
 

Registered to estate of James Dickson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24andr.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield and Green Glebe Estates  
[Stock] 67  
 

Registered to John Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Green Glebe, Iron River, and Swallowfield Estates  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to estate of John Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Green Glebe, Iron River, and Swallowfield Estates  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to estate of John Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 28(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield  
 

Registered to Pierre Albert.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Green Glebe, and Swallowfield Estates  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to estate of John Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29andr.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Green Glebe, and Swallowfield Estates  
 

Registered to estate of Dr. John Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831andr.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
 

Registered to Atkinson and Hozier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32andr.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Name] Swallowfield Estate  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to Levy Hyman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Andr.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot) 25(F) 24(M)  
[Name] Swallowfield  
 

In the possession of Levy Hyman as lessee of Swallowfield Estate. No information on who was in possession of these enslaved people in 1829 - may have been Levy.

 
T71/137 284
1839
[Name] Chancery Hall and Swallowfield  
[Size] 1435  
 

Registered to Baron Ketelholdt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Andrew.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.