Anchovy Bottom

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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
1813 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
1774 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Owner
1793 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Attorney
1795 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
1809 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Owner
1815 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1834 [EA] - → Annuitant

Associated Claims (2)

£3,722 9S 3D
£528 19S 6D

Estate Information (47)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 130  
 

Listed as belonging to Martin Williams with 8 men bearing arms and 1 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 175 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1778
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account of Dr. John Parkinson Esq. for Anchovy Bottom estate in Account Current with John Wedderburn. Account filed by James Neilson, gentleman who swaers that he did see Martin Williams deceased design and deliver the account.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 10
1778
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Andrew McKay as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 153
1779
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account of Dr. John Parkinson Esq. for Anchovy Bottom estate in Account Current with John Wedderburn. Account filed by James Neilson, gentleman who swaers that he did see Martin Williams deceased design and deliver the account.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 10
1779
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Andrew McKay as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 153
1780
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Martin Williams Esq. Account filed by Alexander McIntosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 156
1780
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The trustees of John Parkinson Esq. for Anchovy Bottom Estate with John Wedderburn.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 1
1781
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Alexander McIntosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 111
1782
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the care and direction of John Wedderburn Esq. as attorney to Messrs. Boates et al the trustees of John Parkinson Esq. Account filed by Alexander McIntosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 146
1783
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn Esq. as attorney to Messers Boats as trustees of John Parkinson Esq. Account filed by Alexander McIntosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 3
1784
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn Esq. as attorney to Messers Boats as trustees of John Parkinson Esq. Account filed by Alexander McIntosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 43
1785
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn Esq. as attorney to Messers Boats as trustees of John Parkinson Esq. Account filed by Alexander McIntosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 138
1787
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn Esq attorney to the board of trustees of John Parkinson Esq. Account filed by Alexander McIntosh, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 125
1787
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn Esq as attorney to Messrs Boats et al trustees of John Parkinson Esq; account filed by Alex.r McIntosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 55
1788
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn Esquire attorney to Messrs Boats et al trustees of John Parkinsin Esquire. Account filed by Charles Loughnan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 329-330 f.174
1789
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn attorney to Messrs Boats and trustees of John Parkinson Esquire. Account filed by Charles Loughnan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 225-226 f.114
1790
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of William Boates and Francis Ingram Esquires trustees of John Parkinson. Account filed by Charles Loughnan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 414
1791
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of William Boates and Francis Ingram Esquires trustees of John Parkinson. Account filed by Charles Loughnan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 250
1792
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Charles Loughlan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 219 [f.110]
1793
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Leonard Parkinson as attorney for the estate for the period 01/01/1793 to 30/07/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 11
1794
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Patton as overseer for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 207-208
1795
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Martin Williams, Esq, deceased. Account filed by John Patton, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 26
1799
[Name] Anchovy-Bolto  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)  
[Name] Anchor Bottom  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with the heirs of Martin Williams as the proprietor.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 27. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1803
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Martin Williams Esq deceased. Account filed by Edward Hayle.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 93
1807
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account filed by George Gillespie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 101
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Stock] 74  
 

Registered to Martin Williams.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy-Bottom  
[Stock] 264  
 

Registered to H. W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 283(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Stock] 250  
 

Registered to H. W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot) 136(F) 133(M)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
 

In the possession of Henry Waite Plummer as owner.

 
T71/202 145-151
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 283(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Stock] 174  
 

Registered to H. W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Stock] 199  
 

Registered to Henry W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 324(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
 

In the possession of Henry Waite Plummer as owner. Registration includes dates of birth and death, mothers, causes of death, exact age in years, days and months.

 
T71/207 176-177
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 271(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Stock] 264  
 

Registered to Henry W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.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)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Stock] 219  
 

Registered to Henry W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 307(Tot) 147(F) 160(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Henry Waite Plummer as owner.

 
T71/210 241-242
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Stock] 250  
 

Registered to Henry W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Stock] 239  
 

Registered to Henry W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot) 113(F) 116(M)  
[Name] Anchory Bottom Estate  
 

In the possession of Henry Waite Plummer as owner.

 
T71/214 69-70
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Stock] 58  
 

Registered to Henry W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to Henry W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.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) 115(F) 106(M)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom Estate  
 

In the possession of Henry Waite Plummer as owner.

 
T71/219 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to Henry W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy  
[Stock] 183  
 

Registered to Henry W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot) 106(F) 106(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Henry Waite Plummer as owner.

 
T71/223 147
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Anchovy  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to Henry W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Anchovy Bottom  
[Size] 1412  
 

Registered to Henry W. Plummer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.