Mount Pleasant

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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
1784 [SY] - 1825 [EY] → Owner
1740 [EA] - 1741 [LA] → Administrator
1740 [EA] - 1743 [LA] → Administrator
1740 [EA] - 1743 [LA] → Previous owner
1742 [EA] - → Not known
1743 [EA] - → Joint owner

Tentative association with this estate.

1743 [EA] - → Joint owner

Tentative association with this estate.

1778 [EA] - → Overseer
1778 [EA] - 1784 [EY] → Owner
1778 [EA] - → Attorney
1781 [EA] - → Overseer
1782 [EA] - → Attorney
1782 [EA] - → Attorney
1783 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Attorney
1786 [EA] - → Attorney
1788 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Overseer
1801 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Overseer
1801 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney

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£2,924 5S 7D

Estate Information (55)

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1740
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by Ambrose Duany and Edmund Duany of Kingston merchants, administrators to Ignatius Duany Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 84
1741
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Came into the hands of Ambrose and Edmund Duany merchants as administrators to Ignatius Duany of the parish of Kingston Esq. deceased. Account filed by the said Ambrose and Edmund Duany.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 175 - 176
1742
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, rum and hire of enslaved people  
 

Account of the estate come to the hands of Ambrose and Edmond Duany as administrators to Ignatius Duany of the parish of Kingston Esq. deceased. Account filed by Edmond Duany merchant and surviving administrator to Ignatius Duany Esq. deceased with no produce remaining in his and Dominick Duanys possession.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 22
1743
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John & Thomas Burton Esqs. Account filed by Robert Anderson as overseer. [NB this appears at odds with the ownership of the Duany family before and after 1743].

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 82
1778
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Produce shipped and sold by Joseph Orr and John Kelly Esqs. as attorneys to Dominic Duany Esq. Account filed by Joseph Geohegan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 187
1778
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Joseph Orr as one of the attorneys, the other being John Kelly.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 69
1781
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Property of Dominick Duany (sp?) Account filed by Joseph Geoghogan, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 107
1782
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Dominick Duany Esquire, by order of John Kelly and John Teighe (sp?) attorneys. Account filed by Michael Keary.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 184
1783
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Shipped and sold by order of Smon Taylor Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 33
1784
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Produce disposed of by the desire of the attorneys of Dominic Duany Esq. Account filed by Michael Keary as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 176
1786
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Disposed of on the order of the Hon Simon Taylor and Nathaniel Bickford Esqures, acting attornies for the plantation; account filed by Mich.l Keary as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 154
1786
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Mitchell Keary, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 119
1787
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Mrs Ann Mary Teighe on the orders of Simon Taylor Esq and the Hon Nathaniel Bickford Esq acting attornies for the plantation; account filed by Ferdinand Hill.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 93
1788
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Mrs Ann Mary Teighe. Account filed by Archibald Graham as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 346-347 f.184
1789
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Mrs Anne Mary Tieghe. Account filed by Archibald Graham as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 390-391 f.193
1790
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Archibald Graham as overseer. Mount Pleasant and Friendship filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 38-39
1791
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Mrs Ann Mary Tighte[?]. Account filed by Archibald Graham as overseer. Mount Pleasant and Friendship filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 202-203 [f.96]
1792
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Mrs Ann Mary Teighe. Account filed by Archibald Graham as overseer. Mount Pleasant and Freindship filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 254-255
1793
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Mrs Anne Mary Teighe. Account filed by Archibald Graham as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 01/01/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 20
1794
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Mrs Anne Mary Tighe. Account filed by Archibald Graham as overseer for the period 01/01/1794 to 01/01/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 220-221
1795
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Mrs Ann Mary TeightAccount filed by Archibald Graham, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 23
1797
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Mount Pleasant and Friendship Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 142
1798
[Name] Mt Pleasant  
[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.
1798
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, plantain, some horses  
 

Account filed by Archibald Graham as overseer for the year period 01/01/1798 to 31/12/1798. Mount Pleasant and Friendship plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 154
1799
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, one horse  
 

Property of Mrs Anne Mary Teighe. Account filed by Arch.d Graham as overseer for the period 01/01/1799 to 01/01/1800. Mount Pleasant and Friendship plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 166
1799
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Ballantine Dick and Co of Kingston, merchants. Account filed by Thomas Ford of the parish of Kingston, wharfinger on the wharf of Ballantine Duk and Co, for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799. Mount Pleasant and Friendship plantations filed together. Crops filed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 27
1801
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Mrs Ann Mary Teigh and in the possession of John Stewart as attorney. Account filed by James Edmiston as overseer. Accounts filed for 1800-1801. Mount Pleasant and Friendship Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 23
1802
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Now in the possession of John Stewart, Attorney to Mrs Ann Mary Teighe. Account filed by James Edmiston as overseer. Mount Pleasant and Friendship Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 60
1803
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, plantain, cattle, logwood  
 

In the possession of John Stewart attorney to Mrs Ann Mary Teighe. Account filed by James Edeniston as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803. Mount Pleasant and Friendship plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 218-219
1804
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, plantain and cattle  
 

Belonging to Mrs Anna Maria Leigh. Account given in the name of John Stewart, Esq, attorney for said estate. Account filed by James Edmiston, overseer for said estate. Mount Pleasant and Friendship Plantation filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 107
1807
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, rum, plantains and cattle  
 

Belonging to Mrs. Ann Mary Teighe and now in the possession of John Stewart Esq. as attorney to Mrs. Ann Mary Teighe. Account filed by James Edmiston as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 75
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 240  
 

Registered to Ann Mary Teighe.

 
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] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 75  
 

Registered to Ann M. Teighe.

 
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] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 142  
 

Registered to Ann Mary Teigh.

 
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] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 141  
 

Registered to Ann Mary Teighe.

 
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] 146(Tot) 79(F) 67(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant and Friendship Plantations  
 

In the possession of Peter Robertson as attorney to Mrs Ann Mary Teighe.

 
T71/145 810-814
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot) 38(F) 30(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Peter Robertson as attorney to Mrs Ann Mary Teighe purchased by her since the death of her father Dominick Duanny (?) Esq the former proprietor. Probably settled on Mount Pleasant estate as this matches the total numbers of people recorded in the almanacs.

 
T71/145 814-816
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to Ann Mary Teighe.

 
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] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to Ann Mary Teighe.

 
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] 207(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

In the possession of Peter Robertson as attorney of Mrs Anne Mary Teighe for Mount Pleasant Estate.

 
T71/146 457-458
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Peter Robertson as attorney to Mary Ann Teighe. Probably settled on Mount Pleasant estate as this matches the total numbers of people recorded in the almanacs.

 
T71/146 456-457
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 99  
 

Registered to Ann Mary Teighe.

 
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] 168(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 182  
 

Registered to Ann Mary Teighe.

 
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] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

In the possession of Peter Robertson as attorney of Mrs Ann Mary Teighe for Mount Pleasant.

 
T71/147 353-354
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Peter Robertson as attorney to Mrs Ann Mary Teighe. Probably settled on Mount Pleasant as this matches the total numbers of people recorded in the almanacs for Mount Pleasant. This group of enslaved people were registered on Pleasant Hill in 1826.

 
T71/147 353
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 93  
 

Registered to Christopher Nockells.

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

In the possession of Charles Scott as attorney to Christopher Nockells; increase owing to purchase of 7 enslaved people from W.M. Gregory, the purchase of 112 enslaved people from Mrs Mary Ann Teighe, the purchase of 1 enslaved person from G.A. Turner, 1 enslaved person purchased from J. Morrison, 1 enslaved person purchased from Anne Murray and 8 births.

 
T71/148 248-250
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to Christopher Nockells.

 
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] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to Christopher Nockells.

 
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] 194(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Scott as attorney to Christopher Nockells. Increase registered in this parish in 1826 by James Gilchrist as attorney to Mrs Christian Simson.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to Christopher Nockells.

 
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] 203(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to Christopher Nockells.

 
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] 137(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to Christopher Nockells.

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

In the possession of Charles Nockells as attorney to Christopher Nockells.

 
T71/150 378
1839
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Size] 603  
 

Registered to Christiana Nockells.

 
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.