Hall Head

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Associated People (7)

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
1740 [EA] - 1743 [LA] → Previous owner
1772 [EA] - 1772 [LA] → Annuitant

In his will made and proved in 1772 Peter Fearon left an annuity to his wife to be paid out of a group of assets including the £800 p.a. he himself said he held secured on Hall Head in Jamaica.

1774 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Joint owner

Shown as joint owner in 1774 although his will had been proved in 1768.

1774 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Joint owner
1780 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1787 [EA] - 1810 [LA] → Joint owner

In her will she left her moiety of Hall head in trust.

1815 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Joint owner

Associated Claims (1)

£3,708 9S 10D

Notes

Note the Hall Family Papers and Sugar Plantation Records, 1709 - 1892 at UC San Diego, http://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0220.html [accessed 13/02/2017].


Estate Information (55)

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1740
[Name] Halhead  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, sundry goods, hire of enslaved people and "negroe investment".  
 

Estate of William Gordon Esq. deceased. Account filed by Alexander Macfarlane merchant, one of the executors of the Honourable William Gordon Esq. deceased under his and the other executor Samuel Spencer Esqs. care and direction. The estates of Charles and Halhead were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 87-88
1741
[Name] Halhead  
[Crop] sugar, rum, sundry items  
 

Estate of the Honourable William Gordon Esq. deceased under the care and direction of Alexander McFarlane and Samuel Spencer Esqs. executors of the said Honourable William Gordon. Account filed by Alexander McFarlane of the parish of Kingston merchant one of the said executors of the Honourable William Gordon Esq. deceased. The estates of Halhead and Mount Charles were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 145-147
1742
[Name] [no name given]  
[Crop] sugar, neat, rum and hire of enslaved people  
 

Estate of the Honourable William Gordon Esq. deceased under the care and direction of Samuel Spencer Esq. and Alexander McFarlane up to August 1742 then under the care and direction of Alexander McFarlane solely to the 31st December 1742. Account filed by Alexander McFarlane of the parish of Kingston merchant one of the executors of the said Honourable William Gordon deceased. Assumed to be Hall Head and Mount Charles.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 62 - 63
1742
[Name] Halhead  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Estate of the Honourable William Gordon Esq. deceased. Account filed by Alexander McFarlane of the parish of Kingston merchant one of the executors of the said Honourable William Gordon deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 58-60
1743
[Name] Halhead  
[Crop] sugar, rum and hire of enslaved people  
 

Estate of the Honourable William Gordon Esq. deceased. Account filed by Alexander McFarlane of the parish of Kingston merchant one of the executors of the Honourable William Gordon Esq. The estates of Halhead and Mount Charles were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 91-92
1774
[Name] Hall Head  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Kennison Sen. and Robert Gordon. Account filed by John Waugh as manager.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 235
1779
[Name] Hallhead  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Produce shipped and sold by James Clark as attorney to Messrs Kennion and Gordon as proprietors of said plantation. Account filed by John Ross as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 161
1780
[Name] Hallhead  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Kennion and Thomas Gordon Esqs. Produce shipped and sold by James Clark as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 198
1781
[Name] Halhead Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Thomas Gordon and John Rennion Esquires. Account filed by Robert Grant, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 121
1782
[Name] Hallhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to the Thomas Gordon & John Kennison Esquires. Account filed by Robert Grant, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 177
1783
[Name] Hallhead  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Kennion and Thomas Gordon Esqs. Account filed by Robert Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 152
1784
[Name] Hallhead  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Thomas Gordon and Kennion Esqs. Account filed by Robert Grant as attorney and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 183
1786
[Name] Hallhead Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Kennion and Thomas Gordon Esq, under the management and direction of Robert Grant their attorney; account filed by Robert Grant, attorney and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 99
1787
[Name] Hall Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of John Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Hennion; account filed by Robert Grant, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 96
1787
[Name] Hallhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of Thomas Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Kennion; account filed by Robert Grant attorney for said Mrs Kennion.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 76
1788
[Name] Hallhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to Thomas Gordon Esquire and Mrs Alice Kennion. Account filed by Charles Taylor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 224
1789
[Name] Hallhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Gordon Esquire and Mrs Alice Kenyon. Account filed by Robert K. Mackintosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 366
1791
[Name] Hallhead  
[Crop] [sugar, rum ?]  
 

Belonging to Mrs Alice Kennier and Tho.s Gordon Esquire. Account filed by Robert Keith Mackintosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 381 [f.190]
1791
[Name] Hall Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Thomas Gordon Esquire and Mrs Alice Kennyon. Account filed by Robert Keith MacKintosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 216-217 [f.103]
1792
[Name] Hall Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to and in the possession of Thomas Gordon Esquire and Mrs Alice Thomson. Account filed by Robert Keith McIntosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 195-196
1793
[Name] Hall Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Thomas Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Kennion. Account filed by Keith Mackintosh as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 01/01/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 56
1794
[Name] Hall Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Thomas Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Kennion. Account filed by Robert Keith Mackintosh as overseer for the period 01/01/1794 to 01/01/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 218-219
1795
[Name] Hall Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Thomas Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Kennion. Account filed by Alex.r McPherson as overseer for the period 01/01/1795 to 01/01/1796.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 216
1796
[Name] Hallhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Thomas Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Kennion. Account filed by Alexander McPherson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Hall Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Thomas Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Kennion. Account filed by Alexander McPherson as overseer for the period 01/01/1797 to 01/01/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 33
1798
[Name] Hall Head  
[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] Hall Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Thomas Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Kennion. Account filed by Alex.r McPherson as overseer for the period 01/01/1798 to 01/01/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 135
1799
[Name] Hall Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Kennion. Account filed by Alexander McPherson as overseer for the period 01/01/1799 to 01/01/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 34
1800
[Name] Hall Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Kennion and in possession of the Hon Kean Osborn, John Stewart and Andrew Johnstone Esquires as attornies. Account filed by Alexander McPherson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 21-22
1802
[Name] Hallhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Thomas Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Kennion and in the possession of The Hon Kean Osborn and John Stuart Esquires as Attornies. Account field by Alexander McPherson as overseer Accounts filed for 1801-1802.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 164-165
1803
[Name] Hallhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Thomas Gordon Esq and Mrs Alice Kennion in the possession of John Stewart and Peter Robertson Esq.s as attornies. Account filed by Alexander McCulloch as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 01/01/1804.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 217
1804
[Name] Hall Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, fat cattle, cattle and calves  
 

Belonging to Thomas Gordon, Esq, and Mrs Alice Kenyon. Account given in the names of John Stewart and Peter Robertson, Esqs, as attorneys for said estate. Account filed by Alexander McCulloch, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 104
1807
[Name] Hallhead  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Belonging to Thomas Gordon Esq. and Mrs. Alice Kennion and in the possession of John Stewart and Charles Harris Esqs. Account filed by Alexander McCulloch as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 73
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Hallhead  
[Stock] 185  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon and Mrs. A. Kenyon.

 
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] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Hallhead  
[Stock] 110  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon and al.

 
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] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Hall-Head  
[Stock] 184  
 

Registered to Gordon & Hall.

 
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] 251(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 191  
 

Registered to Gordon & Hall.

 
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] 247(Tot) 121(F) 126(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Kenneth McPherson and George Patton as attorneys to Thomas Gordon and John Hall Esquires.

 
T71/145 289-295
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 242  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

 
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] 271(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 117  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

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

In the possession of Charles Anderson Esq as attorney to Thomas Gordon and John Hall Esquires.

 
T71/146 150-152
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 270(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 252  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

 
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] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 266  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

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

In the possession of Charles Anderson as attorney to Thomas Gordon and John Hall Esquires.

 
T71/147 136-138
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 286  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

 
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] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 293  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

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

In the possession of Charles Anderson as attorney to Thomas Gordon and John Hall Esquires.

 
T71/148 127-129
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 130  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

 
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] 216(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 125  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

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

In the possession of Hon. James M. Whyte as attorney to Thomas Gordon and John Hall Esquires, Proprietors.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 44  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

 
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] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 87  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

 
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] 210(Tot)  
[Name] Hall Head  
[Stock] 80  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

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

In the possession of James Matthew Whyte as attorney to Thos Gordon and John Hall Esquires.

 
T71/150 207
1839
[Name] Hall Head  
[Size] 2402  
 

Registered to Gordon and Hall.

 
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.