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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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1786 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
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1798 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Attorney
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Sugar estate in St Ann, Jamaica. Owned by William Thomas Beckford from at least 1786 to 1820. Listed with Drax Hall from 1809 onwards. No record of this estate has been found after William Thomas Beckford sold Drax Hall in 1821. It may have been amalgamated with Drax Hall. |
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1786
[Name] Fonthill Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum In the possession of William Beckford Esq; account filed by David Polson, planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 140
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1786
[Name] Fonthill Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by David Polson as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 152
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1787
[Name] Fonthill Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum In the possession of William Beckford Esquire. Account filed by David Polson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 29-30
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1788
[Name] Fonthill Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum In the possession of Wm Beckford Esquire. Account filed by David Polson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 61-62
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1789
[Name] Fonthill
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by James Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 268-269 f.135
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1790
[Name] Fonthill
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by James Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 239 [f.120]
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1791
[Name] Fonthill
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by James Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 164
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1792
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)
[Name] Fonthill Owned by William Beckford.
'A list of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly', Edward Long Papers, Add. 12435, transcribed at htt
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1792
[Name] Fonthill
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by James Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 214
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1793
[Name] Fonthill Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by James Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 49
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1794
[Name] Font Hill Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Property of William Beckford Esq under the direction of the Hon James Wildman Esq. Account filed by John Irving Carlyle as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 51
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1795
[Name] Fonthill Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento Belonging to William Beckford, Esq. Account given in by William Walker, Esq, who has direction of estate. Account filed by John Irving Carlyle, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 37
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1796
[Name] Fonthill Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to William Beckford, Esq. Account given by the Hon Thomas Murphy, Esq. Account filed by John Irivng Carlyle, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Fonthill Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, old iron Property of William Beckford Esq under the direction of William Walker and Thomas Murphy Esq. Account filed by John Irving Carlyle as overseer for the period 31/12/1796 to 31/12/1797.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 42-43
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1798
[Name] Fonthill
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Ann 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.
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1798
[Name] Font Hill
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, cattle, house and enslaved people Account filed by Robert Hoseason overseer. The Property of William Beckford Esqire under the direction of The Honourable James Wildman Esq.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 45
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1799
[Name] Fonthill Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper, hire of enslaved people Account filed by Matthew Hill for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 112-113
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1800
[Name] Font Hill Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, labour hire Account filed by Matthew Hill as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 125-126
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1801
[Name] Fonthill Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, ginger, coffee, cocoa, piemento Account filed by William Ellison Accounts filed for 1800-1801.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 111
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1803
[Name] Fonthill
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Samuel Dicker as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 135
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1807
[Name] Fonthill
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to William Beckford Esq. and under the care and direction of James Campbell as overseer. Account filed by James Campbell.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 232-233
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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:
'Fonthill [ Jamaica | St Ann ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/14551 [accessed 31st December 2024].
