Wakefield

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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
1778 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Owner
1783 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession

Shown as mortgagee-in-possession in 1783 after his death

1783 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Other

Shown as surviving partner of George Chandler mortgagee-in-possession

1788 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner

Notes

Plotted as a sugar estate in Clarendon in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica but not identified in other sources.


Estate Information (22)

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1778
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the Hon. Thomas Wallen Esq. Account filed by James Robertson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 45
1779
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the Honourable Thomas Wallen Esquire. Account filed by Richard Sergeant, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 144
1780
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the Honourable Thomas Wallen Esquire. Account filed by Richard Sergeant, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 144
1781
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the Honourable Thomas Wallen Esquire. Account filed by Richard Sergeant, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 145
1782
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the Honourable Thoomas Wallen Esquire. Account filed by Jonas Spiller, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 192-193
1783
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the Hon. Thomas Wallen Esq. Account filed by John Whyt. Property come into the knowledge and possession of the attorneys to Duncan Davidson surviving co-partner of George Chandler the mortgagee in possession of the said plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 121
1788
[Name] Wakefield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies of George Gascoyne Esquire. Accounts filed for 01/07/1788 to 31/12/1788.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 382
1789
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Ralph Fisher one of the attornies to the proprietor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 359-360
1790
[Name] Wakefield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Ralph Fisher one of the attornies for the proprietor of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 393 [f. 196]
1791
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 220-221
1792
[Name] Wakefield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 89
1793
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jacques one of the attornies for the plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 432
1794
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies for the plantation for the year 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 184
1795
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies for the plantation for the year 31/12/1794 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 268
1796
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, hire of enslaved people  
 

Account given by John Jaques, attorney. Account filed by James Jones.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account given and filed by John Jaques, Esq, one of the attornies.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 143
1798
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies for the plantation for the year 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 270
1798
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Clarendon 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.
1799
[Name] Wakefield plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed John Pink one of the attornies for Wakefield. Property of the Reverend Doctor George Chandler of Great Britain.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 214
1800
[Name] Wakefield Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Reverend George Chandler. Account filed by Jake Pink as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 73-74
1803
[Name] Wakefield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of Robert William Norries Esq attorney for the property. Account filed by Thomas Hussey clerk to said Robert William Norries for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 224
1807
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Hussey, clerk to Robert William Harris Esq. attorney to Wakefield Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 28