Pedro River

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Associated People (9)

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
1822 [SY] - 1827 [EY] → Owner
1828 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1827 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1827 [SY] - 1841 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
1817 [EA] - 17/09/1822 [ED] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 17/09/1822 [ED] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1828 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner

Associated Claims (1)

£552 12S 1D

Estate Information (24)

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1807
[Name] Pedro River  
[Crop] sugar, rum, wainage of coffee, livestock and logwood  
 

Account filed by Samuel Wilson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 105
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] Pedro-River  
[Stock] 131  
 

Registered to Sophia A. Milne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15ann.htm. The 1816 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1815, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot)  
[Name] Pedro River  
[Stock] 162  
 

Registered to Sophia A. Milne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_02.htm. The 1817 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1816, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot) 46(F) 51(M)  
[Name] Happy Retreat Plantation  
 

In the possession of Mrs. Sophia Ann Milne as attorney to William Frederic Edwards Esq.

 
T 71/43 365-368
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 56(Tot) 32(F) 24(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

In the possession of Sophia Ann Milne as attorney to William Frederic Edwards Esq.

 
T 71/43 368-370
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot) 29(F) 22(M)  
[Name] Pedro River Plantation  
 

In the possession of Mrs. Sophia Ann Milne as owner.

 
T71/43 810-811
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot) 2(F) 14(M)  
[Name] Pedro River Plantation  
 

In the possession of John Frederic Nembhard.

 
T71/43 877-878
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot)  
[Name] Pedro River  
[Stock] 179  
 

Registered to Sophia A. Milne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al06.htm. The 1818 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1817, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Sophia Ann Milne as owner [increase of 10 enslaved people by purchase from John Frederick Nembhard].

 
T71/44 453-454
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Frederic Nembhard as owner [19 births and 4 deaths, remainder of enslaved people by purchase from William Frederic Edwards and registered in 1817 by Sophia Ann Milne as his attorney, some sold to Sophia Milne, and 1 enslaved person bought from Deputy Marshall and registered in 1817 by Thomas Bradey as belonging to the estate of H Roffey].

 
T71/44 475-480
1820
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of late in possession of Sophia Ann Milne as attorney to William Frederic Edwards [153 recorded as sold to John Frederic Nembhard. Assumed to be Pedro River, Happy Retreat and Mount Pleasant].

 
T 71/44 201-205
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Pedro River  
[Stock] 138  
 

Registered to John F. Nembhard.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Frederic Nembhard as attorney and executor of late Mrs. Milne [most enslaved people bequeathed to J F Nembhard, 7 deaths and 2 manumissions].

 
T71/45 554-556
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Frederic Nembhard as owner [57 enslaved people by bequeathed by Mrs. Milne].

 
T71/45 587-590
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 336(Tot)  
[Name] Pedro River  
[Stock] 262  
 

Registered to John F. Nembhard.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Pedro River  
[Stock] 203  
 

Registered to John F. Nembhard.

 
Jamaica Alamanc (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Frederic Nembhard as owner.

 
T71/46 630-632
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Pedro River  
[Stock] 99  
 

Registered to John F. Nembhard.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Pedro River  
[Stock] 63  
 

Registered to estate of John F. Nembhard.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Anderson, George Gillies and William Parke as executors of the late John Frederick Nembhard, deceased [18 births, 27 deaths] [supplies minor corrections in numbers given in earlier returns].

 
T71/48 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
[Name] Pedro River  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to John F. Nembhard.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Pedro River  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to John F. Nembhard.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] Pedro River  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to estate of John F. Nembhard.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Anderson as executor of John F Nembhard, deceased.

 
T71/50 546