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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
1817 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
William Dormer the elder
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
William Dormer of Portland

Shown as owner by devise in 1820 and then owner.

1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
William Dormer of Portland
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
John Fowles
1829 [EA] - → Other
William Holgate
1830 [EA] - → Not known
Ann Holgate

Notes

Clearly Friendship, Rectory and Content estates in Portland have an intertwined pattern of ownership that hasn't been fully deciphered. See JA3242, JA16623 and JA16643.

Estate Information (9)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot) 26(F) 36(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Dormer as owner.

 
T71/151 39-40
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Dormer as owner by Devise.

 
T71/152 135
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Dormer as owner. Assumed to be Content and Industry.

 
T71/153 42-43
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Philip Jaquet as Exor of William Dormer.

 
T71/154 100
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Friendship Penn  
 

In the possession of John Fowles as owner; increase owing to purchase of 52 enslaved people from William Holgate, the purchase of 1 enslaved person from Samuel Brown and the purchase of 16 enslaved people from John Mackenzie as Receiver of Windsor Forest Estate, the property of William Holgate decd.

 
T71/155-156 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
 

Registered to Ann Holgate.

 
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.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
 

Registered to J. Fowles.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot)  
[Name] Friendship Pen  
 

In the possession of John Fowles as owner.

 
T71/157 84
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
 

Registered to J. Fowles.

 
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.