Castle Comfort 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
1803 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner
1815 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [EY] → Receiver
1834 [EA] - → Receiver

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£3,319 1S 6D

Estate Information (24)

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1776
[Name] Comfort Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Osulevan (sp) as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 105
1779
[Name] Castle Comfort  
[Crop] sugar, rum and old cooper  
 

Account filed by John Brown as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 121
1798
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Portland in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate. The marking of the sugar mill is unclear.

 
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.
1803
[Name] Castle Comfort Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Samuel Orr Esq under the direction and management of Charles Orr and George Harrison Cosens Esq.s as his attornies. Account filed by John Paris as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 189-190
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Comfort  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to Samuel Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Portld.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 246(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 31  
 

Registered to Samuel Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 140  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 116  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot) 94(F) 119(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Bryan West Orr as owner.

 
T71/151 199-202
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Ross as Attorney to Bryan West Orr.

 
T71/152 105
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Bryan West Orr as owner.

 
T71/153 70
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 104  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 72  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Comfort  
 

In the possession of William Lambie as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery.

 
T71/154 80
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 201(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 68  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29portgeorg.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Castle Comfort Estate  
 

In the possession of William Lambie as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery.

 
T71/155-156 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Lambie Esq as Receiver.

 
T71/157 141
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Castle of Comfort  
[Stock] 77  
 

Registered to Bryan West Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Portld.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.