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Hobson's Choice

Jamaica | St Mary

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
1827 [EA] - → Owner
Mary R. Moncrieffe
1828 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Milborough Moncrieffe

Notes

Owned by Mary Moncrieffe with fewer than 15 enslaved people prior to 1828. Then owned by Milborough Moncreiffe. The enslaved people moved to this estate c. 1828 appear to have come from Milborough Moncreiffe's estate in St Ann and to have returned there by 1832.

Estate Information (6)

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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 12(Tot)  
[Name] Hobson's Choice  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to Mary R. Moncrieffe.

 
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.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 6(Tot)  
[Name] Hobson's Choice  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to Mary R. Moncrieffe.

 
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.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 13(Tot)  
[Name] Hobson's Choice  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to Milborough Moncrieffe.

 
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.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot) 6(F) 10(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Milborough Moncrieffe, owner.

 
T 71/39 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot)  
[Name] Hobson's Choice  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to Milborough Moncrieffe.

 
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.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot)  
[Name] Hobson's Choice  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to Milborough Moncrieffe.

 
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.