Belvidere Estate

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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
- 1825 [EY] → Joint owner
1764 [SY] - 1772 [EY] → Attorney
1740 [EA] - → Administrator
1740 [EA] - 1743 [LA] → Other

Previously trustee, now deceased and the position held by his administrators

1740 [EA] - 1743 [LA] → Administrator
1741 [EA] - 1742 [LA] → Attorney
1741 [EA] - 1742 [LA] → Attorney
1743 [EA] - → Attorney
1763 [EA] - 1788 [EY] → Owner
1792 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Executor

Executor and trustee

1795 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner

Shown as co-owner but under the will of her brother John Cope Freeman she was in fact co-tenant-for-life.

1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1837 [EA] - 1844 [LA] → Owner

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£6,708 2S 11D

Estate Information (62)

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1740
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, livestock, labour and house rental  
 

Account filed by Ambrose Duany and Edmund Duany of Kingston merchants, administrators to Ignatius Duany Esq. deceased, surviving trustee and attorneys to Joseph Murray of New York Esq. and Grace his wife formerly Grace Freeman widow and relict and also administratrix of Thomas Freeman late of Front Town in the county of Hunterdon in North America Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 84
1741
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock and corn  
 

Came into the hands of Ambrose and Edmund Duany as attorneys to Joseph Murray of New York Esq. and Grace his wife formerly Grace Freeman widow and relict and also administratrix of Thomas Freeman late of Trentown in the county of Hunterdon in North America esq. deceased. Account filed by Ambrose and Edmund Duany of the parish of Kingston merchants administrators to Ignatius Duany Esq. deceased surviving trustee and as attorneys to the said Joseph Murray.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 155-156
1742
[Name] Belvedere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock and molasses  
 

Account of the estate came to the hands of Ambrose and Edmond Duany as attorneys to Joseph Murray of New York Esq. and Grace his wife formerly Grace Freeman widow and relict and also administratrix of Thomas Freeman late of Trentown in the County of Hunterdon in North America Esq. deceased. Account filed by Edmond Duany of the parish of Kingston merchant surviving administrator to Ignatius Duany Esq. deceased surviving trustee and as surviving attorney to the said Joseph Murray of New York Esq. and Grace his wife.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 18
1743
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, livestock, land and tenament rental  
 

Account of the estate came to the hands of Edmund Duany as surviving administrator to Ignatius Duany of the parish of Kingston Esq. deceased and attorney to Joseph Murray of New York Esq. & Grace his wife formerly Grace Freeman widow and relict and also administratrix of Thomas Freeman late of Trentown in the county of Hunterdon in North America Esq. deceased. Account filed by the said Edmund Duany as administrator to Ignatius Duany Esq. deceased and attorney jointly with Dominick Duany to the said Joseph Murray of New York Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 89-90
1763
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 73
1764
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by Sir George Francis Hampson and Andrew Wallen as his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4
1765
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by Sir George Francis Hampson and Andrew Wallen as his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 137
1766
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by Sir George Francis Hampson and Andrew Wallen as his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 8
1767
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by Sir George Francis Hampson and Andrew Wallen as his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 63
1768
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by Sir George Francis Hampson as attorney. Rent for houses in Morant Bay also noted.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 121
1769
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by Sir George Francis Hampson as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 185
1770
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by Sir George Francis Hampson as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 25
1772
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by Sir George Francis Hampson as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 168
1778
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

The property of John Cope Freeman of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Philip Pinnock as attorney to John Cope Freeman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 90
1779
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

The property of John Cope Freeman of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Philip Pinnock as one of the attorneys to John Cope Freeman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 139
1780
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

The property of John Cope Freeman of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Philip Pinnock as one of the attorneys to John Cope Freeman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 210
1781
[Name] Belvidere Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, copper  
 

Property of John Cope Freeman Esquire of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Philip Pinnock, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 142
1782
[Name] Belvedire Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of John Cope Freeman Esquire. Account filed by Philip Pinnock, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 193
1783
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

The property of John Cope Freeman of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Philip Pinnock as one of the attorneys to John Cope Freeman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 19
1784
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

The property of John Cope Freeman of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Philip Pinnock as one of the attorneys to John Cope Freeman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 212
1786
[Name] Belvedere Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Cope Freeman Esq; account filed by Phillp Pinnock.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 107
1786
[Name] Belvidere Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Cope Truman Esq of Great Britain; account filed by Philip Pinnock his attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 154
1787
[Name] Belvedere Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The trust estate of John Cope Freeman Esq deceased; account filed by G.H. Gibbons.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 147
1788
[Name] Belvedere Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The trust estate of John Cope Freeman Esquire deceased. Account filed by G.H. Gibbons.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 375 f.197
1789
[Name] Belvidere Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The trust estate of John Cope Freeman Esquire deceased. Account filed by George Henry Gibbons.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 381-382
1790
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Cope Freeman Esquire deceased. Account filed by David [?] Barnard as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 18-19
1791
[Name] Belvedere Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Philip Pinnock of the parish of St Catherine attorney to the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 189-190 [f.89]
1792
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Capel Curr Esquire of Great Britain executor and trustee for the estate of John Cope Freeman Esquire deceased and for whom Phlilip Pinnock Esquire is attorney. Account filed by James Warner as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 252-253
1793
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Cope Freeman Esq deceased. Account filed by Phlilip Pinnock, attorney to Capel Curr Esq of Great Britain executor and trustee for the estate of the deceased, for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 50
1795
[Name] Belvedere Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Cope Freeman, Esq, deceased. Account given by Lewis Cuthbert, Esq, attorney. Account filed by Isaac Bennett, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 26
1796
[Name] Belvedere Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood, steers, cows  
 

Account filed by Isaac Bennett.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Belvedere Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of J. Cope Freeman Esq, dec. Account given by Lewis Cuthbert, Esq, attorney. Account filed by Isaac Bennett, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 197
1798
[Name] Belvedere  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1798
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Lewis Cuthbert Esqs attorney to the heirs of John Cope Freeman Esq deceased. Account filed by Isaac Bennet as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 219
1799
[Name] Belvedere Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Lewis Cuthbert.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 165-166
1800
[Name] Belvidere Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Lewis Cuthbert Esq as attorney to the heirs of Jn Cope Freeman Esq deceased. Account filed by James Reid as overseer for the period 01/01/1800 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 74
1801
[Name] Belvidere Plantation  
[Crop] sugar  
 

The property of the Heirs of John Cope Freeman Esq deceased. Account filed by James Reid as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 208
1803
[Name] Belvidere Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Reid as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 234
1807
[Name] Belvidere  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Reid as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 102
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 293(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 271  
 

Registered to John Cope Freeman.

 
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] 321(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 142  
 

Registered to John C. Freeman.

 
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] 327(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 186  
 

Registered to John Cope Freeman.

 
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] 369(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 182  
 

Registered to John Freeman Cope.

 
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] 355(Tot) 173(F) 182(M)  
[Name] Belvedere Estate  
 

In the possession of George Cuthbert as attorney to Mrs Stella Frances Allen and Philip Dormer Stanhope Esq.

 
T71/145 12-21
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 351(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to John Freeman Cope.

 
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] 351(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 111  
 

Registered to John Freeman Cope.

 
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] 348(Tot)  
[Name] Belvedere Estate  
 

In the possession of Honourable George Cuthbert as attorney for Mrs Stella Frances Allen and Philip Dormer Stanhope Esq, proprietors of Belvedere Estate according to their several interests therein.

 
T71/146 417-418
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 352(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 250  
 

Registered to heirs of John F. Cope.

 
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] 356(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 255  
 

Registered to heirs of John F. Cope.

 
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] 357(Tot)  
[Name] Belvedere Estate  
 

In the possession of Honourable George Cuthbert as attorney for the Heirs of the late John Cope Freeman Esq, proprietor of Belvedere Estate according to their several interests therein.

 
T71/147 128-129
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 354(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
 

Registered to heirs of John F. Cope.

 
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] 343(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 240  
 

Registered to heirs of Philip Dormer Stanhope.

 
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] 344(Tot)  
[Name] Belvedere Estate  
 

In the possession of Hon George Cuthbert as attorney for the Heirs of the late Philip D. Stanhope Esq, Proprietors of Belvedere Estate according to their several interests therein.

 
T71/148 329-330
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 346(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 129  
 

Registered to heirs of John F. Cope.

 
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] 350(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to heirs of P. D. Stanhope.

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

In the possession of Hon George Cuthbert as attorney for the Heirs of the late Phillip D Stanhope Esq.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 348(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 132  
 

Registered to heirs of P. D. Stanhope.

 
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] 343(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 92  
 

Registered to heirs of P. D. Stanhope.

 
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] 339(Tot)  
[Name] Belvidere  
[Stock] 108  
 

Registered to heirs of P. D. Stanhope.

 
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] 341(Tot)  
[Name] Belvedere Estate  
 

In the possession of George Cuthbert as the attorney to the Heirs of the late Phillip Stanhope Esq, Proprietors of Belvedere Estate according to their individual interests therein.

 
T71/150 484
1844
[Name] Belvidere  
[Size] 2050  
 

Belvidere with 2050 acres was registered to 'Freeman, C.W.' in the 1845 Jamaica Almanac, for the March quarter 1844. 'C.W.' must have stood for 'Count Walsh.'

 
Jamaica Almanac 1845
1891
[Name] Belvidere  
 

Belvidere was registered to 'Heirs of Count Freeman', and was one of 12 sugar estates in cultivation listed for St Thomas in the 1891 Business Directory Jamaica

 
1891 Business Directory Jamaica