Windsor Forest

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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
1810 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver

Estate Information (16)

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1798
[Name] Windsor Forest  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest  
[Stock] 125  
 

Registered to William Holgate.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to William Holgate.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1811.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor-Forest  
[Stock] 44  
 

Registered to William Holgate.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1815.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest  
[Stock] 92  
 

Registered to William Holgate.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1817.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot) 88(F) 94(M)  
[Name] Windsor Forrest Estate  
 

In the possession of William Holgate as owner.

 
T71/145 369-373
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to William Holgate.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1819.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to William Holgate.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1820.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest  
 

In the possession of John McKenzie as Receiver for Windsor Forest the property of William Holgate decd.

 
T71/146 211-212
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest  
[Stock] 87  
 

Registered to William Holgate.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1821.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest  
[Stock] 78  
 

Registered to estate of William Holgate.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1823.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest Plantation  
 

In the possession of John Mackenzie as Receiver for Windsor Forest Plantation, the property of William Holgate decd.

 
T71/147 232-233
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest  
[Stock] 73  
 

Registered to estate of William Holgate.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1825.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to John McKenzie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1826.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest Plantation  
 

In the possession of John McKenzie as Receiver for Windsor Forest Plantation. Note a large number of these enslaved people had been moved to Harbour Head by 1829; others had been moved to Content in Portland.

 
T71/148 208
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Forest  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to John McKenzie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1827.