Associated People (14) |
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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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1752 [EA] - 1753 [LA] → Previous owner
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1770 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
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1807 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
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1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner
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1815 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Previous owner
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1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
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1820 [EA] - → Attorney
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1820 [EA] - → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
Listed as owner in 1823 in the slave registers, thereafter the estate is subject to a Chancery suit. The estate is given against John Weyberg Shaw in the almanacs until 1839 so presumably he had not relinquished his claim to ownership. |
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1826 [EA] - → Receiver
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1826 [EA] - → Receiver
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1829 [EA] - → Manager
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Manager
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1832 [EA] - → Manager
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£4,938 17S 4D
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Estate Information (36) |
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1752
[Name] Unity
[Crop] sugar and rum Estate of the Honourable Isaac Gale Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Fearon administrator with the will annexed of the said Honourable Isaac Gale late of the parish of St. Elizabeth deceased. The estates of Nonsuch, Unity and Trinity were filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 144-145
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1753
[Name] Unity
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle Part of the estate of the late Honourable Isaac Gale Esq. deceased. Account filed by Mark Hall Esq. substituted agent for the estate of the said late Honourable Isaac Gale Esq. deceased by the Honourable Thomas Fearon Esq. administrator to the said estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 173-174
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1770
[Name] Unity
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Bryan Edwards of the City of London. Account filed by William Williams, Rector of the parish of St. Mary as attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 43
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1778
[Name] Unity
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Zachary Bayley Edwards Esq. as one of the attorneys of Bryan Edwards Esq.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 141
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1780
[Name] Unity
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Zachary Bayley Edwards Esq. as one of the attorneys of Bryan Edwards Esq.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 197
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1781
[Name] Unity
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Bryan Edwards Esq. Account filed by Samuel Thomas.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 151
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1794
[Name] Unity
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Dickson for the year ending 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 207
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1796
[Name] Unity Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed for Unity and Nonsuch by Benjamin Hume, status not given.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 74
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1797
[Name] Unity Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Brelonging to Bryan Edwards, Esq. Account filed by Benjamin Hume? overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 217
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1798
[Name] Unity Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of Bryan Edwards Esq. Account filed by Benjamin Hume gent of the parish of St Mary for the period 01/01/1798 to 31/12/1798
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 139
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1799
[Name] Unity Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Property of Bryan Edwards Esq. Account filed by Benjamin Hume gent of the parish of St Mary for the period 01/01/1799 to 31/12/1799.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 217-218
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1800
[Name] Unity Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Henry Shirley for the period 16/07/1800 to 31/12/1800.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 148-149
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1800
[Name] Unity Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, iron, lead and copper Property of Bryan Edwards Esq. Account filed by William Dawson for the period 01/01/1800 to 31/12/1800.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 149-150
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1803
[Name] Unity Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Davidson as overseer for the year 1803 to 05/04/1803.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 70
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1804
[Name] Unity Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum Account given in the names of John Blackburn, Robert William Harris and John Shand. Account filed in the name of John Davidson, overseer to said plantation.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 191
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1807
[Name] Unity Estate
[Crop] Rum, sugar, old copper, livestock and hire of enslaved people on the highway. In the possession of the trustees of Zachary Hume Edwards Esq. Account filed by Donald Morison as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 64
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1810
[Number of enslaved people] 444(Tot)
[Name] Nonsuch and Unity [Stock] 252 Registered to Z. H. Edwards.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 356(Tot)
[Name] Nonsuch etc. [Stock] 270 Registered to Zachary H. Edwards. Assumed to include Unity.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.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] 179(Tot)
[Name] Unity [Stock] 123 Registered to trustees of Zachary Hume Edwards.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.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] 172(Tot)
[Name] Unity [Stock] 164 Registered to trustees of Zachary Hume Edwards.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.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] 171(Tot) 79(F) 92(M)
[Name] [no name given] Joseph Green, attorney to the trustee of Zachary Hume Edwards, deceased, owner.
T 71/33 558-563
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)
[Name] Unity [Stock] 58 Registered to Z. H. Edwards, trustee.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.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] 159(Tot)
[Name] Unity [Stock] 143 Registered to trustees of Z. H. Edwards.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.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] 160(Tot) 75(F) 85(M)
[Name] Unity Estate John Mark, Joseph Green and James Grant as attornies to the trustee of Zachary Hume Edwards, deceased.
T 71/34 119-119v
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)
[Name] Unity [Stock] 139 Registered to Z. H. Edwards, trustee.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)
[Name] Unity [Stock] 133 Registered to Joseph Green.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot) 76(F) 78(M)
[Name] [no name given] Joseph Green, attorney of John Weyberg Shaw, owner [increase by purchase] [returned in 1820 by Joseph Green, one of the attornies for the trustee of Zachary Hume Edwards].
T 71/35 184-189
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)
[Name] Unity [Stock] 119 Registered to J. W. Shaw.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.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] 150(Tot)
[Name] Unity [Stock] 115 Registered to J. W. Shaw.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.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] 150(Tot) 76(F) 74(M)
[Name] Unity Estate James Grant and Jasper Hall Livingston, receivers or managers under an order of the High Court of Chancery [returned in 1823 by Joseph Green, agent of J W Shaw].
T 71/36 455-456
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)
[Name] Unity [Stock] 47 Registered to J. W. Shaw.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.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] 145(Tot)
[Name] Unity [Stock] 124 Registered to J. W. Shaw.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.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] 138(Tot) 71(F) 67(M)
[Name] Unity Estate William Miller and George McLeish, managers appointed by the High Court of Chancery [previously returned by James Grant and Jasper Hall Livingston, managers under an order of the High Court of Chancery].
T 71/39 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 317(Tot)
[Name] Nonsuch etc. [Stock] 126 Registered to J. W. Shaw. Assumed to include Unity.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.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] 308(Tot)
[Name] Nonsuch etc. [Stock] 121 Registered to J. W. Shaw. Assumed to include Unity.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.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] 121(Tot) 62(F) 59(M)
[Name] Unity Estate Robert Fairweather and George McLeish, managers appointed by the High Court of Chancery [decrease by death and by sale].
T 71/41 157
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1781 - 14th Jun 1863
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family. London and Bristol merchant and banker (Baillie, Ames & Baillie), major recipient of slave compensation across the Caribbean.
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 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Unity [ Jamaica | St Mary ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/16203 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
