Betty's Hope

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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
1799 [EA] - 1837 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£3,274 11S 6D

Notes

Absentee-owned from at least 1800.


Estate Information (33)

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1775
[Name] Bettys Hope  
[Crop] sugar, rum, corn, livestock  
 

Account filed by William Buckley as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 96
1776
[Name] Bettys Hope  
[Crop] sugar, rum, corn, livestock  
 

Account filed by Redmond Burke as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 130
1777
[Name] Bettys Hope  
[Crop] sugar, rum, corn, livestock  
 

Account filed by Redmond Burke as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 129
1778
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Crop] sugar, rum, yam, beef  
 

Account filed by Redmond Burke as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 86
1779
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, beef  
 

Account filed by Redmond Burke as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 169
1798
[Name] Bettys Hope  
[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.
1799
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Hannah overseer. The property of John West Esquire under the management and direction of Messrs Burrow and Fowles as attornies for said property.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 163-164
1800
[Name] Bettys Hope Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John West Esq under the management and direction of Samuel Orr Esq as attorney for said proprietor. Account filed by James Hannah as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 83-84
1801
[Name] Bettys Hope Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John West Esq, under the management and direction of Samuel Orr Esq as Attorney for said proprietor from 1st January to 31st May and of Messrs Burrowes and Fowles as Attornies from 1st June to 31st December. Account filed by James Hannah as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 178
1807
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John West Esq. and under the management and direction of George Panton Esq. as his attorney. Account filed by James Hannah as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 9
1808
[Name] Bettys Hope  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John West Esq. and under the management and direction of George Panton Esq. as his attorney. Account filed by James Hannah.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 215
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 227(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 98  
 

Registered to John West.

 
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] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to John West.

 
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] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 92  
 

Registered to John West.

 
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] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 77  
 

Registered to John West.

 
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] 224(Tot) 105(F) 119(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Panton and John Fowles as attornies to John West the owner.

 
T71/145 869-875
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 247(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to John West.

 
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] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to John West.

 
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] 254(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Panton and John Fowles at attornies to John West the owner.

 
T71/146 498-499
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 68  
 

Registered to John West.

 
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] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 78  
 

Registered to John West.

 
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] 248(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Fowles as attorney to John West.

 
T71/147 379-380
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 75  
 

Registered to William West.

 
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] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to William West.

 
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] 255(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William West as attorney to John West.

 
T71/148 371-373
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 247(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to William West.

 
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.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to William West.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1828.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William West as attorney to John West Esq.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to William West.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1830
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to William West.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1831.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot)  
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to William West.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1832.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Henry Lord Garrigues as attorney of John West Esq.

 
T71/150 534
1839
[Name] Betty's Hope  
[Size] 2021  
 

Registered to William West.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thoseast.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1839.