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New Town

Jamaica | Port Royal

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
Alexander Donaldson

Identifiable as Alexander Donaldson of London through the names of the executors in the Slave Registers and the Chancery case into which the compensation was paid in the claim associated with New Town.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
Alexander Grant
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
John Meek
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
Joseph Green
1826 [EA] - → Manager
James Grant
1829 [EA] - → Manager
George McLeish
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
George McLeish

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica Port Royal 134 (New Town)
£194 1S 11D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 22(Tot) 22(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of A. Grant, John Mick and Joseph Green as acting trustees and executors of the late Alexander Donaldson Esquire deceased the owner.

 
T71/119 122
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Grant for attorneys John Meek and Joseph Green as acting trustees and executors of the late Alexander Donaldson deceased owner.

 
T71/120 129
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Joseph Green as one of the acting exors and trustees of Alexr Donaldson deceased.

 
T71/121 80-81
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot) 14(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Grant as manager appointed by the High Court of Chancery (England).

 
T71/122 48-49
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 11(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George McLeish as atty to the heirs of Alex. Donaldson.

 
T71/124 157