Associated People (4) |
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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:
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1779 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Previous owner
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1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Inferred position as a partner in Leitch & Smith. |
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1815 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£4,494 18S 4D
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Estate Information (27) |
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1778
[Name] Boston
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by James McBeth as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 49-50
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1779
[Name] Boston
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle The property of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by James Macbeth as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 152-3
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1780
[Name] Boston
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle The property of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by James Macbeth as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 219
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1781
[Name] Boston Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum No ownership details given. Account filed by James McBeth, planter and overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 70
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1782
[Name] Boston Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum No ownership details. Account filed by James MacBeth.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 179
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1798
[Name] Boston
[Crop] Sugar Plotted In Portland as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
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1808
[Name] Boston
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Patrick Keith as overseer. Filed for 1808 (1st Jan-14th Nov).
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 158
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)
[Name] Boston [Stock] 2 Registered to Leitch & Smith.
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.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)
[Name] Boston [Stock] 2 Registered to Leitch & Smith.
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.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)
[Name] Boston [Stock] 98 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot) 111(F) 112(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Philip Hearn as the constituted attorney of Maurice Jones.
T71/151 11-174
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)
[Name] Boston [Stock] 214 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)
[Name] Boston [Stock] 124 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)
[Name] Boston [Stock] 118 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Philip Hearn as the constituted Attorney of Maurice Jones Esq.
T71/152 161
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot) 119(F) 122(M)
[Name] Boston Estate In the possession of Maurice Jones as owner.
T71/153 28
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)
[Name] Boston Estate [Stock] 184 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot)
[Name] Boston Estate [Stock] 161 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot) 115(F) 118(M)
[Name] Boston Estate In the possession of Maurice Jones as Proprietor.
T71/154 39
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot)
[Name] Boston Estate [Stock] 135 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)
[Name] Boston Estate [Stock] 58 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)
[Name] Boston Estate [Stock] 32 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot) 107(F) 111(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Maurice Jones as Proprietor.
T71/155-156 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)
[Name] Boston Estate [Stock] 22 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)
[Name] Boston Estate [Stock] 50 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot) 107(F) 116(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Maurice Jones Esq as Proprietor.
T71/157 120
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot)
[Name] Boston Estate [Stock] 35 Registered to Maurice Jones.
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.
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2025
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Boston Estate [ Jamaica | Portland ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/1613 [accessed 2nd February 2025].
