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Wagwater

Jamaica | St Mary

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1742 [EA] - 1742 [LA] → Previous owner
Henry Bendysh senior of Bedford Row

Shown as owner but in fact dead in 1740.

1743 [EA] - 1752 [LA] → Owner
Henry Bendysh junior of Tempsford
1760 [EA] - 1760 [LA] → Joint owner
William Berners

Given as William Barnes but almost certainly William Berners, son-in-law of Henry Bendysh senior, previous owner.

1760 [EA] - 1760 [LA] → Joint owner
John Hewett Hagar

Given as John Haggar but almost certainly John Hewett Hagar, son-in-law of Henry Bendysh senior, previous owner.

Estate Information (5)

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1742
[Name] Wagwater  
[Crop] Livestock, corn, beef and coffee  
 

Belonging to Henry Bendysh Esq. of Bedford Row London. Account filed by Mark Hall as attorney to the said Henry Bendysh Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 216-217
1743
[Name] Wagwater  
[Crop] Corn, hire of enslaved people, livestock, cocos, nails, old iron, salt fish, beef, solder, coffee, cotton, ginger and sundry items  
 

Belonging to Henry Bendysh Esq. of Tempsford Bedfordshire. Account filed by Mark Hall as attorney for the said Henry Bendysh Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 71-72
1752
[Name] Wagwater  
[Crop] Ginger, cotton, logwood, coffee, livestock, beef and corn  
 

Property of Henry Bendysh Esq. Account filed by Mark Hall Esq. as attorney to the said Henry Bendysh Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 143-144
1760
[Name] Wagwater Plantation  
[Crop] ginger, cotton, coffee, cattle, horses, corn,sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William Barnes and John Hagger Esquires. Account filed by John Campbell, overseer.

These names probably equate to William Berners and John [Hewett] Hagar, the sons-in-law of Henry Bendysh sen.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 179
1762
[Name] Wagg Water  
[Crop] Coffee, cotton, livestock, corn  
 

Account filed by Edward Bullock as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 18