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Essex

Jamaica | Port Royal

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
1815 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
John Rider Brice
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
Andrew Cagan Macgile
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
John Neilson
1821 [EA] - → Previous owner
John Rider Brice
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Francis Clark
1832 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Joseph Gordon
1834 [EA] - → Owner
Joseph Gordon

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica Port Royal 32 (Mount Faraway and Essex)
£2,358 4S 2D

Notes

Enslaved people in the registers for 1823-1832 are grouped with those on Mount Faraway - see JA2844 for these entries.

Estate Information (16)

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1807
[Name] Essex  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Account presented by Peter Lefever, merchant of Kingston.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 194-195
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)  
[Name] Essex Plantation  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Peter Lefever.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11PtRoyl.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Lefever et al.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812and.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 25(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to John Ryder Bryce.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15royl.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to John Ryder Brice.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot) 14(F) 13(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Magile and Neilson as attornies.

 
T71/119 252
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
 

Registered to John Ryder Brice.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to J. R. Price.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Neilson as attorney to John Rider Brice. Enrolled by A. G. Masill as attorney to Mr Rider Price in 1817.

 
T71/120 123
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to the heirs of J. R. Brice.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 7(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
 

Registered to Francis Clark.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24royl.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Francis Clark.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 13(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
 

Registered to Francis Clark.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
 

Registered to Francis Clark.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29royldav.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 6(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
 

Registered to Francis Clark.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831royl.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
 

Registered to Sarah P. Clark.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32royl.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.