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Expectation Hill

Jamaica | St Mary

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
1800 [EA] - → Owner
Donald McBean
1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner
Donald McBean
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
James Seton Lane
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
Alexander Gilzean
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
John Alves
1817 [EA] - → Owner
William Falconer

Estate Information (7)

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1800
[Name] Expectation Hill  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Belonging to Donald McBean Esq. Account filed by Patt Monahan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 124
1808
[Name] Expectation Hill  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Account filed by Thomas Gilzian as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 216
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)  
[Name] Expectation Hill  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to Donald McBean deceased.

 
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.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot)  
[Name] Expectation Hill  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Donald McBean deceased.

 
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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
[Name] Expectation-Hill  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to William Falconer.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)  
[Name] Expectation Hill  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to William Falconer.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot) 18(F) 26(M)  
[Name] Expectation Hill  
 

John Alves, Alexander Gilzean, James S Lane, attorneys to William Falconer.

 
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