Tremolesworth Estate

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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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1764 [EA] - 1810 [LA] → Previous owner
1794 [EA] - → Overseer
1815 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - → Trustee
1817 [EA] - → Trustee
1820 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Receiver
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
1832 [EA] - → Overseer
1834 [EA] - → Receiver
1839 [EA] - → Not known

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£3,708 9S 7D

Estate Information (42)

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1764
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Onwed by the heirs of Godrey Shreyer Esq. deceased. Account filed by Patrick Kein as overseer. John Nembhard and George Seaton Esq. as acting executors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 89
1765
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Onwed by the heirs of Godrey Shreyer Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Kelly as overseer. John Nembhard and George Seaton Esq. as acting executors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 169
1766
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Owned by the heirs of Godrey Shreyer Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Kelly as overseer. John Nembhard and George Seaton Esq. as acting executors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 25
1766
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Under the management of the Reverend William Williams. Account filed by Joseph Charles as clerk on the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 174
1767
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Onwed by the heirs of Godrey Shreyer Esq. deceased. Account filed by Charles Convert. John Nembhard and George Seaton Esq. as acting executors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 110
1768
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Onwed by the heirs of Godrey Shreyer Esq. deceased. Account filed by Charles Convert. John Nembhard and George Seaton Esq. as acting executors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 123
1780
[Name] Tremolesworth Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Property of the Heirs of the late Godfrey Shreyer Esquire. Under the direction of the Reverend William Williams. Account filed by Joseph Charles.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 21-22
1792
[Name] Tremolsworth  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Duncan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 227-228
1793
[Name] Tremolsworth Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Duncan as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 37
1794
[Name] Tremolsworth Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some horses  
 

Account filed by Walter Pollock as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 103
1795
[Name] Tremolesworth Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Hoi? Son, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 7
1796
[Name] Tremolesworth Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, land rent, hire of enslaved people, steers, mare  
 

Account filed by Robert Hoseason, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Tremolsworth Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, rents  
 

Account filed by Robert Hoseason as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 35
1798
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with a watermill and a cattle mill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1798
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Alexander Gordon overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 13
1799
[Name] Tremolesworth Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, land use  
 

Account filed by Alexander Gordon overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 199-200
1800
[Name] Freemolesworth  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Alexander Gordon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 151
1801
[Name] Tremolesworth Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Alexander Gordon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 191
1803
[Name] Freemolesworth  
[Crop] sugar, rum, rents  
 

Account filed by Alexander Gordon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 127-128
1807
[Name] Trimolesworth  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account filed by Robert Innes as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 51
1808
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, hire of enslaved people and land rental  
 

Account filed by Robert Innes as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 164-165
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 341(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 194  
 

Registered to Godfrey Shreyer 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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 301(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 227  
 

Registered to heirs of Samuel Shreyer.

 
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] 270(Tot) 137(F) 133(M)  
[Name] Tremolesworth Estate  
 

Thomas Higson and Larchin Gordon as trustees of Samuel Shreyer, deceased.

 
T 71/33 75-82
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 203  
 

Registered to estate of Samuel Shrever.

 
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.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to estate of Samuel Shreyer.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth Estate  
 

Larchin Gordon as receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery.

 
T 71/34 99v-100
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 187  
 

Registered to estate of Samuel Shreyer.

 
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.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 193  
 

Registered to estate of Samuel Shreyer.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot) 123(F) 133(M)  
[Name] Tremolesworth Estate  
 

Larchin Gordon, receiver of Tremolesworth Estate appointed by the Court of Chancery and executor of J Shreyer.

 
T 71/35 160-161
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 259(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 198  
 

Registered to Larchin Gordon, receiver.

 
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.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 178  
 

Registered to Larchin Gordon, receiver.

 
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.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot) 115(F) 120(M)  
[Name] Tremolesworth Estate  
 

Robert Surman Thompson, receiver of Tremolesworth Estate [decrease by death and manumission].

 
T 71/36 195-198
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 202  
 

Registered to Robert S. Thompson, receiver.

 
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.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 46  
 

Registered to Robert S. Thompson, receiver.

 
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] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 202  
 

Registered to Robert S. Thompson, receiver.

 
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] 221(Tot) 108(F) 113(M)  
[Name] Tremolesworth Estate  
 

Robert Surman Thompson, receiver for Tremolesworth Estate [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/40 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 77  
 

Registered to R. S. Thompson, receiver.

 
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] 207(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 92  
 

Registered to R. S. Thompson, receiver.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot) 105(F) 99(M)  
[Name] Tremolesworth Estate  
 

Edward Hutton, overseer, for Robert S Thompson, receiver for Tremolesworth Estate [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/42 219
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Stock] 204  
 

Registered to R.S. Thompson, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Tremolesworth  
[Size] 1500  
 

Registered to James Cockburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.