Associated People (7) |
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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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1831 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1779 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Previous owner
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1790 [EA] - 1825 [EY] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - → Attorney
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Estate Information (38) |
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1779
[Name] Retreat
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses Belonging to the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John Mackenzie planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 149
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1783
[Name] Retreat
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. deceased.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 15
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1786
[Name] Retreat Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant, Bart. deceased; account filed by Roderick McLeod.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 86
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1787
[Name] Retreat Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of the heirs of the late Sir Alexander Grant; account filed by Ewan McBean, planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 217
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1787
[Name] Retreat Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by evan McBean planter overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 42
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1789
[Name] Retreat Estate
[Crop] Pimento, rum The property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. deceased. Account filed by Evan McBean as planter overseer
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 424-425 f. 210
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1790
[Name] Retreat Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. Account filed by James Mackay planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 437-438
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1791
[Name] Retreat Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. Account filed by Joseph Stewart planter overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 284
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1792
[Name] Retreat Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. Account filed by John Stewart, planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 187-188
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1793
[Name] Retreat Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Walter McFarland as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793. Retreat Estate and Rio Nova filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 89
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1795
[Name] Retreat Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Rourke, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 2
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1796
[Name] Retreat Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Robert Hadlock, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Retreat Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper Account filed by Robert Hadlock as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 42
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1798
[Name] Retreat Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Robert Hadloch.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 23
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1798
[Name] Retreat
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Mary 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.
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1799
[Name] Retreat Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Robert Hadlock overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 196
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1800
[Name] Retreat Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William Oldaker as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 159
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1801
[Name] Retreat Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum Owner details not recorded. Account filed by William Oldaker as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 192
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1803
[Name] Retreat Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people Account filed by Edward Williams as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 137
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1807
[Name] Retreat
[Crop] sugar and rum Acoount filed by Robert Clarke as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 39
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1810
[Number of enslaved people] 365(Tot)
[Name] Albion and Retreat [Stock] 241 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 367(Tot)
[Name] Albion etc. [Stock] 187 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant. Assumed to include Retreat.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 43 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 422(Tot) 230(F) 192(M)
[Name] Albion Estate and Retreat Estate Francis Graham, attorney to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
T 71/33 870-883
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 44 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot)
[Name] Retreat Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 414(Tot) 221(F) 193(M)
[Name] [no name given] Larchin Gordon, attorney to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet. Assumed to be Albion and Retreat.
T 71/34 104v-105v
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 60 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 56 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 416(Tot) 216(F) 200(M)
[Name] [no name given] Larchin Gordon, attorney to Sir Alexander Grant. Assumed to be Albion and Retreat.
T 71/35 162-165
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 59 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 60 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 397(Tot) 210(F) 187(M)
[Name] Retreat Estate James Laing, attorney to Sir Alexander Cray Grant Baronet, heir at law of Sir Alexander Grant Bart., deceased. Assumed to be Albion and Retreat.
T 71/36 130-132
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 120 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 4 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 154 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1829
[Name] Albion Estate and Retreat Estate
Sir Alexander Grant Baronet as owner.
T 71/37 [unpaginated]
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 352(Tot) 182(F) 170(M)
[Name] Retreat Estate Richard Harrison, attorney to Sir Alexander Cray Grant Baronet [decrease by deaths and manumissions]. Assumed to be Albion and Retreat.
T 71/41 220
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
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:
'Retreat [ Jamaica | St Mary ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/14753 [accessed 19th April 2024].
