Retrieve Estate Old Works

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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
1799 [EA] - 01/04/1802 [ED] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (2)

£4,266 1S 11D
£4,655 14S 2D

Estate Information (46)

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1784
[Name] Retrieve (Old Works)  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, iron  
 

Property of Neil Malcolm Esquire. Account filed by Duncan Campbell, planter & overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 90-91
1785
[Name] Retrieve Old Works  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Neil Malcolm Esq. Account filed by Duncan Campbell, planter, late the overseer. Appeared before the Court of the Common Pleas in Hanover but does not state where the plantation is located.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 83
1787
[Name] Retrieve Old Works Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Hopkins, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 151
1787
[Name] Retrieve Old Works Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Hopkins as planter overseer of the parish of Hanover.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 65
1788
[Name] Retrieve Old Works Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Hopkins as planter overseer of the parish of Hanover.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 413-414 f.226
1789
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Neil Malcolm Esquire. Account filed by James Hopkins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 209-210 f.106
1790
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Hopkins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 388-389 [f.194]
1791
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Hopkins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 213 [f.101]
1792
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Neill Malcolm Esquire. Account filed by James Hopkins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 71-72
1793
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Hopkins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 404-405 [f.203]
1794
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Hopkins as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 182
1795
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Hopkins, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1796
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Neill Malcolm Esq. Account filed by William Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 71
1797
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Neill Malcolm Esq. Account filed by William Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 71
1798
[Name] Retrieve Old Works Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Neil Malcolm Jun.r Esq. Account filed by John Hopkins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 189
1799
[Name] Old Retrieve  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover 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.
1799
[Name] Retrieve Old Works Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Neil Malcolm Junior Esq as kept by Donald Malcolm Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by James Hopkins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 198-199
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve Ore  
 

Registered in Hanover to Neil Malcolm with 198 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 24.
1800
[Name] Retrieve Old Works Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Neil Malcolm Senior Esq, given in by order of Donald Malcolm Esq attorney for said plantation. Account filed by James Hopkins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 97-98
1802
[Name] Retrieve Old Works Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Neill Malcolm Esq on the order of Donald and George Malcolm Esq.s attornies for the estate. Account filed by James Hopkins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 8
1803
[Name] Retrieve Old Works Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Neill Malcolm, Esq. Account given in the names of Donald and George Malcolm, attorneys for the estate. Account filed by James Hopkins, overseer for said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 32
1805
[Name] Retrieve Old Works  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Neil Malcolm Esq. Account filed by James Hopkins as overseer given in by order of Donald & George Malcolm Esqs. as attornies.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 3
1806
[Name] Retrieve Old Works  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Neil Malcolm Esq. Account filed by James Hopkins as overseer given in by order of Donald & George Malcolm Esqs. as attornies.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 4
1807
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Neil Malcolm Esq. Previously under the care and management of James Hopkins late overseer. Account filed by Neil Mackellar as present overseer given in by order of Donald & George Malcolm Esqs. as attornies for the estate..

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 62
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 1337(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve etc.  
[Stock] 1362  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm. Assumed to include Blenheim, Knockalva, New Paradise, New Retrieve, Pell River, Retirement.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 1405(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve etc., etc.  
[Stock] 748  
 

Registered to Neill Malcolm. Assumed to include Blenheim, Knockalva, New Paradise, New Retrieve, Pell River, Retirement.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve (o.w.)  
[Stock] 163  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 247(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve (o.w.)  
[Stock] 260  
 

Registered to Donald Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot) 132(F) 128(M)  
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
 

In the possession of Archibald Campbell, lawful attorney to Neill Malcolm Esquire and an absentee from this island.

 
T71/190 473-477
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve (O.W)  
[Stock] 185  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve (O.W)  
[Stock] 186  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
 

In the possession of Archibald Campbell as the lawful attorney of Neill Malcolm Esquire an absentee from this island owner.

 
T71/191 395-397
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve (O.W)  
[Stock] 39  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve (o.w.)  
[Stock] 157  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
 

In the possession of Archibald Campbell as the true and lawful attorney of Neil Malcolm Esq. an absentee from the island, owner.

 
T71/192 327-329
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 276(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve (o.w.)  
[Stock] 161  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 278(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve (o.w.)  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Work  
 

In the possession of Archibald Campbell as the true and lawful attorney of Neill Malcolm Esq. an absentee from this island, owner.

 
T71/193 96-97
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve (o.w.)  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot)  
[Name] Retrieve (o.w.)  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot) 136(F) 130(M)  
[Name] Old Retrieve Estate  
 

In the possession of John Malcolm as attorney to Neill Malcolm Esquire.

 
T71/196 77
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Old Retrieve  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Old Retrieve  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)  
[Name] Old Retrieve  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot) 123(F) 119(M)  
[Name] Retrieve Estate Old Works  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as attorney to Neill Malcolm Esquire.

 
T71/199 129
1839
[Name] Old Retrieve  
[Size] 1029  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.