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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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1772 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Trustee
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1772 [EA] - 1782 [LA] → Trustee
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1772 [EA] - 1782 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
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1786 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Attorney
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1786 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Overseer
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1786 [EA] - → Owner
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1799 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Previous owner
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1801 [EA] - → Executor
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1801 [EA] - → Executor
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1801 [EA] - → Overseer
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1801 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary
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1803 [EA] - 1805 [LA] → Overseer
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1805 [EA] - → Attorney
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1807 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Attorney
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1807 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Attorney
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1807 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Overseer
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1808 [EA] - → Overseer
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"From 1736 to 1755 (around the time of the Leeward Maroon treaty), Aberdeen slave plantation was leased by Alexander Forbes of Scotland from Alexander McFarlane's Island Estates in St Elizabeth, and in 1772 still belonged to an Alexander Forbes as a sugar-and-slave estate. The Aberdonian slave community was missionized by the English Moravians and the Moravian Church is a central focus of contemporary Aberdeen, which was founded as a free village by emancipated slaves who moved off Aberdeen estate around 1845, in association with the Moravian missionaries, to live on the southern foothills of the Cockpit Country nearer to the plains." Aberdeen first appears in the Accounts Produce in 1772, the property of Alexander Forbes with William Harvie and Hugh Wallace as trustees. At some point between 1782 and 1786 it was aquired by William Mitchell, then afterwards by Dr James Rowe. Rowe had died by 1799. His daughter Deborah Margaret Rowe was the owner in trust in 1801. Aberdeen appears in the almanac of 1811 registered to James Rowe, deceased. In the almanac of 1816 it was registered to the estate of James Rowe with the note: "Negroes sold and removed". The estate is not listed with the name Aberdeen in any subsequent almanacs and has not been identified in the slave registers or the compensation process. |
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Quote from Jean Besson, 'Euro-Creole, Meso-Creole: Creolization and Identity in West-Cental Jamaica, c. 1660-1999' in Gordon Collier and Ulrich Fleischmann (eds.), A Pepper-pot of Cultures: Aspects of Creolization in the Caribbean (New York, 2003) pp. 169-188, quote from p. 179. |
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1772
[Name] Aberdeen
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses Belonging to Alexander Forbes in the hands of the Hon. William Harvie and the Hon. Hugh Wallace Esqs. Trustees for the same. Account filed by James Harvie.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 80
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1773
[Name] Aberdeen
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses Belonging to Alexander Forbes in the hands of the Hon. William Harvie and the Hon. Hugh Wallace Esqs. Trustees for the same. Account filed by James Harvie.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 80
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1774
[Name] Aberdeen
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses Belonging to Alexander Forbes Esq. in the hands of the Hon. William Harvie and the executors of Hugh Wallace Esq. deceased trustee for the same. Account filed by James Harvie.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 89
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1775
[Name] Aberdeen
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses Belonging to Alexander Forbes Esq. in the hands of the Hon. William Harvie and the executors of Hugh Wallace Esq. deceased trustee for the same. Account filed by James Harvie.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 91
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1779
[Name] Aberdeen
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Alexander Forbes in the hands of William Harvie Esq. trustee for the same. Account filed by James Harvie.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 155-6
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1781
[Name] Aberdeen Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to Alexander Forbes in the hands of William Harvie Esquire, Trustee for the same. Account filed by James Harvie.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 212
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1782
[Name] Aberdeen Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to Alexander Forbes in the hands of William Harvie Esquire, Trustee for the same. Account filed by James Harvie.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 149
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1786
[Name] Aberdeen Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people In possession and under the care and management of John Vanheelen for William Mitchell. Account filed by John Corran as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 75 [f.38]
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1787
[Name] Aberdeen Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people Under the care and direction of John Vanheelen Esquire. Account filed by John Corran as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 69 f.35
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1788
[Name] Aberdeen Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people Under the care and direction of John Vanheelen Esquire. Account filed by John Corran as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 377 f.208
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1799
[Name] Aberdeen
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Elizabeth as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
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1800
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot)
[Name] Aberdeen Registered in St Elizabeth to Ab. James Rowe, dec. with 49 enslaved people in Balcarres's dispatch, dated 22/03/1800.
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 28
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1801
[Name] Aberdeen Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Miss Deborah Margaret Rowe under the care and direction of Charles Rowe and Isaac Allen Exors of the late Doctor James Rowe deceased. Account filed by John Rankin as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 19-20
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1803
[Name] Aberdeen
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses Account filed by John Hill as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 136
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1804
[Name] Aberdeen
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by John Hill as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 136-137
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1805
[Name] Aberdeen
[Crop] sugar Account filed by John Hill as overseer or attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 137
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1807
[Name] Aberdeen
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle Under the care and direction of Phillip Levys and John Racker Webb Esqs. Account filed by William McCleod as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 41
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1808
[Name] Aberdeen
[Crop] sugar and rum Under the care and direction of Philip Levy's and John R. Webb Esqs. Account filed by William McLeod as late overseer for the period 1st Jan-20th April 1808. He was succeeded by Isaac Ward who took over as overseer for the period 20th April-31st Dec 1808.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 185-186
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)
[Name] Aberdeen Registered to the estate of James Rowe with the comment "Negroes sold and removed".
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a/AL15eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter.
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1805 - ????
Enslaved man brought to England as a domestic servant; his former owner was indicted for the mistreatment of Thompson in 1824.
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:
'Aberdeen [ Jamaica | St Elizabeth ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/14579 [accessed 3rd December 2024].
