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Beau Desert

Jamaica | St George

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
William Unwin Sims
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
Jacob Sims
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
John Steel
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
George Young
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
Adam Young

Notes

Enslaved people on this estate had been sold to Bogg estate in Portland by 1820.

Estate Information (2)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot) 24(F) 40(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Steel as Attorney for Messieurs G. & A. Young Sims & Young of London now upon Beaudesert Plantation.

 
T71/158 336
1820
[Name] Beau Desert Plantation  
 

In the possession of John Steel as Attorney for Messieurs George & Adam Young Sims & Young of London upon Beau Desert Plantation. Decrease of 62 enslaved people sold to Andrew Watson Esquire as Attorney for William Bryan Esquire and moved to Bogg Estate in Portland.

 
T71/159 241