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Sheerness

Jamaica | St Mary

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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
1783 [EA] - → Owner
John Cosens
1801 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Previous owner
John Cosens

Estate Information (11)

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1783
[Name] Sheerness  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Cosens Esq. Account presented in St. Mary although there is no confirmation that the plantation is located there.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 95
1784
[Name] Sheerness  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Cosens Esq. Account filed by George Davison.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 173
1786
[Name] Sheerness Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of James Cosens Esq; account filed by George Davison.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 91-92
1787
[Name] Sheerness Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by George May as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 100-101 f.51
1788
[Name] Sheerness Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by George May as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 105 [f.53]
1798
[Name] Sheernefs  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Sheerness Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Matthew Love as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 28
1800
[Name] Sheerness Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum (?)  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Edward Hudson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 133-134
1801
[Name] Sheerness Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the Heirs of John Cosens (?) Esq deceased. Account filed by Edward Harwood (?).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 202
1803
[Name] Sheerness Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of John Cosens Esq deceased. Account filed by Edward Hudson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 110-111
1807
[Name] Sheernefs  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Cosens Esq. deceased and under the management and direction of George Harrison Cosens and Charles Orr Esqs. as receivers. Account filed by Moses Mawson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 68-69