Fonthill

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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
1786 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
1798 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Attorney

Notes

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.


Estate Information (21)

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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
1786
[Name] Fonthill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by David Polson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 152
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
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
1789
[Name] Fonthill  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 268-269 f.135
1790
[Name] Fonthill  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 239 [f.120]
1791
[Name] Fonthill  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 164
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
1792
[Name] Fonthill  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 214
1793
[Name] Fonthill Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 49
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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