Carthagena

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Associated People (14)

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
1774 [EA] - → Joint owner
1774 [EA] - → Joint owner
1809 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Previous owner

Given as A. B. Hay, but identifiable as Alexander Balcarres Hay by the presence of Elizabeth L. Hay, widow of Alexander Balcarres Hay, in later registrations.

1811 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Not known
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - → Other
1820 [EA] - → Other
1820 [EA] - → Other
1826 [EA] - → Previous owner
1826 [EA] - → Administratrix
1827 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1827 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1839 [EA] - → Not known

Estate Information (22)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagene  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 74  
 

Listed as belonging to Hottershed/Hortershead & Sawyer with 3 men bearing arms and 2 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 73 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1799
[Name] Carthagine  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James 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.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 35(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to A. B. Hay deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to Benjamin Mason.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena  
[Stock] 43  
 

Registered to Benjamin Mason.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena, Endeavour, & Abingdon  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to Benjamin Mason.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena etc.  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to Benjamin Mason.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 29(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Henderson Hay as owner; increase owing to purchase of 15 enslaved people from the Estate of William Bayne decd in Hanover, the acquisition of 8 enslaved people enrolled by Benjamin Mason as Lessee from Dehany Belgrace McIntosh and 1 birth.

 
T71/206 58
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot)  
[Name] Carthage  
[Stock] 97  
 

Registered to John H. Hay.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Henderson Hay as owner.

 
T71/209 144
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to John Henderson Hay.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena  
[Stock] 101  
 

Registered to John H. Hay.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena  
[Stock] 91  
 

Registered to estate of John H. Hay.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Elizabeth Lawrence Hay as Administratrix on the Estate of John Henderson Hay. Decrease of 5 enslaved people "devised to E.L Hay".

 
T71/213 90
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 28(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to estate of John H. Hay.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 25(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena  
[Size] 2  
 

Registered to Boddington and Davis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to estate of John H. Hay.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Attorney of Messrs Boddington and Davis, mortgagees in possession of Carthagena Estate; increase owing to 2 births and 18 enslaved people given in by G. John Henderson Hay in 1826.

 
T71/216 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 25(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Boddington and Davis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot)  
[Name] Carthegena Estate  
 

In the possession of William Reynolds as Attorney of Messrs Boddington and Davis as Mortgagees in possession of Carthagena Estate.

 
T71/223 188
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] Carthagena  
 

Registered to Boddington and Davis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Carthagena  
[Size] 160  
 

Registered to John Lumley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.