Hopewell

Estate Details


Associated People (6)

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
1815 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
1830 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1832 [EA] - → Trustee
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Associated Claims (1)

£3,138 14S 0D

Estate Information (19)

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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_01.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot) 66(F) 48(M)  
[Name] Hopewell Plantation  
 

In the possession of Robert William Harris as owner and belonging to the Hopewell Plantation.

 
T71/25 361-364
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
 

Registered to Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
 

Registered to Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert William Harris as owner. Previous return was for 114 enslaved people. Conveyed by John Caldwell residuary devisee and heir at law under the will of the last William Caldwell deceased to John Gale Vidal and by him in trust to John Millward and by him to me as one of the claimants under the will of the said William Caldwell deceased and registered by John Caldwell in this parish in 1817.

 
T71/26 163-165
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robet William Harris as owner.

 
T71/27 143
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot) 96(F) 91(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert William Harris esq.

 
T71/28 325
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 17  
 

Registered to Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot) 100(F) 88(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert William Harris as owner.

 
T71/30 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to the estate of Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 31  
 

Registered to the estate of Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 41  
 

Registered to Robert W. Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIV.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot) 97(F) 83(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Fitzherbert Batty and Robert Page as trustees under the will of Robert William Harris deceased.

 
T71/32 [unpaginated]
1839
[Name] Hopewell  
[Size] 802  
 

Registered to the estate of Robert William Harris.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thosvale.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.