Wakefield

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Associated People (10)

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
Annuitant

Dates of association are not known; but see 1826 evolution for Chancery suit in which Tucker named as an annuitant (at £280 currency per annum).

1766 [EA] - 1766 [LA] → Guardian

Guardian of James Gray Tucker and Henry William Tucker, minors

1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
1819 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
1820 [EA] - → Executor
1820 [EA] - → Executor
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£1,693 7S 4D

Estate Information (19)

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1765
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Kennedy Sinclair of St. Catherine as merchant and factor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 141
1766
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to James Gray Tucker and Henry William Tucker gentleman minors. Account filed by Lucius Tucker late of the island of Jamaica but now of Great Bruckhill in the County of Buckinghamshire Great Britain as guardian to the minors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 9
1767
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by Kennedy Sinclair of St. Catherine as merchant and factor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 9
1768
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by Kennedy Sinclair of St. Catherine as merchant and factor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 9
1769
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by Kennedy Sinclair of St. Catherine as merchant and factor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 9
1798
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Ann as a sugar estate with a cattlemill 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
[Name] Wakefield  
[Stock] 85  
 

Registered to Charles Moulton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15ann.htm. The 1816 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1815, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot)  
[Name] Wakefield  
[Stock] 93  
 

Registered to Charles Moulton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_02.htm. The 1817 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1816, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot) 47(F) 63(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Charles Moulton as owner.

 
T 71/43 867-870
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Wakefield  
[Stock] 140  
 

Registered to Charles Moulton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al06.htm. The 1818 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1817, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] Wakefield  
[Stock] 143  
 

Registered to Charles Moulton, deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James P Utten and James L Hilton as executors of Charles Moulton deceased.

 
T 71/44 466
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Wakefield  
[Stock] 118  
 

Registered to the estate of Charles Moulton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
[Name] Wakefield  
[Stock] 97  
 

Registered to the estate of Charles Moulton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Wakefield Estate  
 

In the possession of James P Utten and James L Hilton as receivers for the Wakefield Estate.

 
T 71/45 567-568
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Wakefield  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to the estate of Charles Moulton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Wakefield  
[Stock] 51  
 

Registered to the estate of Charles Moulton.

 
Jamaica Alamanc (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot) 47(F) 51(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James L Hilton and James P Utten as receivers.

In 1826 Chancery suit against whom judgment was entered. The defendants were James Lawrence Hilton, James Phillips Utten, Mary Hilton, Elizabeth Ann Tucker, Eliza Tucker, John Dunbar Tucker. Complainants: Philip Protheroe and George Protheroe. Defendants required to pay £26,552 13 8d (Jamaican current) together with £1,825 interest and costs due to the complainants by 20 December 1825. Unless the defendants paid by 30 November 1826 the plantation was to be put up for sale to the highest bidder. The sale to include ‘slaves, cattle, stock, and appurtenances’. The sale subject to an Annuity of £280 currency per annum payable to Mrs Elizabeth Ann Tucker.

 
T 71/46 428-429 ; Royal Gazette of Jamaica, 14 October 1826.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Reid Scott as attorney of John B Elin [increase in enslaved people by purchase from John B Elin and Alexander R Scott as attorneys of Messrs. Philip Protheroe and George Protheroe and enrolled by them in 1829.

 
T 71/49 241