Bogg and Arthur's Seat

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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
1774 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Joint owner

Shown as co-owner as late as 1786, although his will was proved in 1782, and the later entries might refer to his nephew and co-heir Walter Ewer II, who is known to have been in partnership with his father John Ewer.

1774 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Joint owner
1780 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Other

Filed Accounts Produce

1792 [EA] - → Joint owner
1792 [EA] - → Joint owner
1809 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Other
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Agent
1829 [EA] - → Agent
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£2,998 14S 4D

Estate Information (45)

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1774
[Name] Bogg  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Messrs. Walter and John Ewer. Account filed by Charles Boswell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 226
1775
[Name] Bogg  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Willis [sp? = Messrs?] Walter and John Eiver [=Ewer]. Account filed by Charles Boswell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 32
1776
[Name] Bogg  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Messers Walter and John Ewer. Account filed by Charles Boswell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 75-6
1780
[Name] Bogg  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by James Hay, planter. Bogg & Bascobell Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 28-29
1781
[Name] Bogg  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, cattle  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by James Hay, planter. Bogg & Bascobell Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 40-41
1782
[Name] Bogg Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Messieurs Walter & John Ewen of London. Account filed by James Hay.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 151-152
1783
[Name] Bogg  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Account filed by James Hay.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 143
1785
[Name] Bogg  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Hay. Account filed 1785.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 182
1786
[Name] Bogg Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Walter and John Ewer of London; account filed by James Hay. Bogg Estate/Boscobell Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 135
1786
[Name] Bogg Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, stock  
 

The properties of Walter and John Ewer Esqs; account filed by James Hay planter of the parish of St Ann. Bogg Estate and Boscobell Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 182-183
1787
[Name] Bogg  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, pimento, stock  
 

Account filed by James Hay planter. Bogg and Boscabell filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 194
1788
[Name] Bogg Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento. Cotton  
 

Account filed by James Hay of the parish of St Ann. Bogg estate and Boscobell pen filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 285-286
1789
[Name] Bog Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Hay of the parish of St Ann. Bog and Boscobell Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 292
1790
[Name] Bog Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Hugh Crawford. Bog and Boscobell Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 255 [f.128]
1792
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 283  
 

Owned by Walter, John and Mary Ewers. Assumed to be both Bog and Boscabelle.

 
'A List of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly... transcribed from papers presented to the British Museum by Charles E. Long ref. Add. 12435' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/mstann1792.htm.
1795
[Name] Bog  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, horses, mules  
 

Bog and Boscobell Pen filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate though stock are. [folio 179 missing]

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 178-179
1796
[Name] Bogg Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, horses, mules, cattle  
 

Account filed by James Reid, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 62
1797
[Name] Bogg Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Owner not given. Account filed by James Reid, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 190
1798
[Name] Bog  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Ann as a sugar estate with a watermill 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to Montague Virgo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Ann.htm. The 1811 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 152  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Ann.htm. The 1811 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Bogg  
[Stock] 43  
 

Registered to the assignees of Walter Ewer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Ann.htm. The 1811 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to Montague Virgo.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1810, hence the earlier transcription date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 156  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1810, hence the earlier transcription date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Bogg  
[Stock] 83  
 

Registered to the assignees of Walter Ewers.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1810, hence the earlier transcription date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 317  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
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] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 361  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
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] 108(Tot) 47(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
 

In the possession of Alexander Kidston as owner.

 
T 71/43 691-695
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 372  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
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.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 396  
 

Registered to Dr. Alexander Kidston.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Bog Plantation  
 

In the possession of Isaac Higgin and William Parke as attorneys to A Kidston owner of Bog Plantation [increase of c. 34 enslaved people by removal from St. Mary's].

 
T 71/44 373-374
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 451  
 

Registered to Dr. Alexander Kidston[? name torn ___ton].

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Bogg  
[Stock] 413  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
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
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Bogg Plantation  
 

In the possession of William Parke and Isaac Higgin as attorneys of Alexander Kidston owner of Bogg Plantation.

 
T 71/45 461
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Bogg  
[Stock] 393  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
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] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Bogg  
[Stock] 465  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
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] 147(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Isaac Higgin as agent for Alexander Kidston.

 
T 71/46 498-499
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] Bogg etc.  
[Stock] 409  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
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] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Bogg, etc.  
[Stock] 348  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
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] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Bogg Plantation and Arthur's Seat  
 

In the possession of Duncan McCallum as agent for Alexander Kidston on the Bogg and Arthur's Seat.

 
T 71/48 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)  
[Name] Bogg, etc.  
[Stock] 374  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
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] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Bogg, etc.  
[Stock] 348  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
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] 150(Tot) 74(F) 76(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Duncan McCallum as attorney for Alexander Kidston, owner.

 
T 71/50 433
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Bog etc.  
[Stock] 385  
 

Registered to Alexander Kidston.

 
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.
1839
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 190  
 

Registered to Montague Virgo.

 
Jamaica Alamanc (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.