Red Hill

Estate Details


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
1749 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Owner
1801 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Other

Lessor to James Trecothick

1817 [EA] - → Overseer
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Lessee

Given as both 'Lessee from' (1820-26) and 'Lessee to' (1829-32) the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in the Slave Registers. He was awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on the estate in 1836. A petition to the House of Lords of 1806 to allow James Trecothick to buy Red Hill Penn from the Royal infirmary for £7000 showed that the Royal Infirmary had been left an estate in 1749 by Archibald Kerr [by inference, Red Hill Pen] and that James Trecothick had entered into a 35 year lease over the pen [and presumably the enslaved people] in 1801 at £350 p.a.

1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£797 17S 3D

Estate Information (19)

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1778
[Name] Redhill Pen  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Produce shipped and sold by desire of John Paterson and John Grant Esqs. as attorneys to James Trecothick Esq. the proprietor. Account filed by Alexander Grame as overseer. Boston, Buckingham and Redhill listed toegther.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 186
1780
[Name] Redhill Pen  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Produce shipped and sold by desire of John Paterson and John Grant Esqs. as attorneys to James Trecothick Esq. the proprietor. Account filed by Allan Cameron as overseer on Boston and Buckingham estates. Boston, Buckingham and Redhill Pen all listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 193
1781
[Name] Redhill Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to or in the possession of James Trecothick Esquire, John Grant and John Paterson Esquires his Attorneys. Account filed by Allan Cameron, overseer. Boston and Buckingham Estates and Redhill Penn all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 50
1782
[Name] Redhill Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to or in possession of James Trecothick Esquire, by order of John and George Grant and John Paterson, attorneys. Account filed by Allan Cameron, overseer. Boston and Buckingham Estates and Redhill Penn all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 180-181
1783
[Name] Redhill Pen  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In the possession of James Trecothick Esq. the proprietor. Account filed by Allan Cameron. Boston, Buckingham and Redhill Pen all listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 159
1784
[Name] Redhill Pen  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In the possession of James Trecothick Esq. Account filed by James Bissett as overseer. Boston, Buckingham and Redhill Pen all listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 207
1786
[Name] Redhill Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Bisset. Boston and Buckingham Plantations/Redhill Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 191
1787
[Name] Redhill Pen  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

In the possession of James Trecothick Esq; account filed by James Bisset as overseer. Boston and Buckingham Plantations and Redhill Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 60
1788
[Name] Redhill Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

In the possession of James Trecothick Esquire. Account filed by James Bisset as overseer. Boston and Buckingham Plantations and Redhill Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 369 f.204
1790
[Name] Red Hill Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to James Trescothick Esquire. Account filed by Lewis McGregor as overseer. Boston and Buckingham Plantations and Red Hill Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 436
1791
[Name] Red Hill Pen  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of James Trecothick Esquire. Account filed by Lewis McGregor as overseer. Boston and Buckingham Plantations and Red Hill Pen filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 166-167
1804
[Name] Redhill Penn  
[Crop] sugar and rum, rent from "free black man" and "mulatto Harriott"  
 

Belonging to or in possession of James Trecothick, Esq. Account filed by George Sands, overseer to said estates and penn. Boston & Buckingham Estates, Redhill Penn all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 113
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot) 25(F) 21(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Meredith Moore as Overseer to James Trecothick Esq - no other representative being in the Country.

 
T71/145 844-846
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Meredith Moore as attorney to James Trescothick, Lessee from the Managers of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh .

 
T71/146 476
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 364(Tot)  
[Name] Boston, Buckingham and Red Hills  
[Stock] 221  
 

Registered to James Trecothick.

 
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] 49(Tot)  
[Name] Red Hill Penn  
 

In the possession of Meredith Moore as attorney to Jas Trescothick, Lessee of Red Hill Penn.

 
T71/147 363
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] Red Hill Pen  
 

In the possession of James Reid as attorney to James Trecothick Esq, Lessee from the Managers of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

 
T71/148 355-356
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot)  
[Name] Red Hill Penn  
 

In the possession of James Reid as attorney to James Trecothick Esq, Lessee to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Forsyth as agent to James Trecothick Esq, Lessee to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

 
T71/150 515