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Salt River

Jamaica | Westmoreland

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
- 1754 [EY] → Owner
William Dorrill
1754 [SY] - → Joint owner
Mary Williams
1754 [SY] - 1762 [EY] → Joint owner
Christopher Senior
1754 [SY] - → Joint owner
Thomas Keith Yeeles Senior
1754 [SY] - → Joint owner
William Dorrill Senior
1754 [SY] - 1776 [LA] → Joint owner
Gilbert Senior
1780 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Previous owner
Christopher Senior

Estate Information (12)

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1754
[Name] Salt River  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Bequeathed by William Dorrill to his nephew Christopher Senior and Christopher's three sons Gilbert Senior, William Dorrill Senior, and Thomas Keith Yeeles Senior, and his niece Mary Williams, wife of Joseph Williams.

 
Douglas Hall, In miserable slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-1786 (Mona, Jamaica, 1999) pp. 23-24
1775
[Name] Salt River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Gilbert Senior and others and now in the possession of Samuel William Haughton as trustee for the estate. Account filed by William Dunnett as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 9-10
1776
[Name] Salt River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Gilbert Senior and others. Account filed by William Dunnett as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 84-5
1778
[Name] Salt River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In the possession of Samuel William Haughton as trustee for the estate. Account filed by William Dannett as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 96-7
1779
[Name] Salt River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In the possession of Samuel William Haughton as trustee for the estate. Account filed by William Dannett as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 134
1780
[Name] Salt River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Christopher Senior and in the possession of Samuel William Haughton as trustee for the estate. Account filed by William Dannett as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 210
1781
[Name] Salt River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of Christopher Senior Esquire and in the Possession of Samuel Williams Haughton as Trustee. Account filed by William Lock, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 43
1782
[Name] Salt River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Christopher Senior and in the possession of Samuel Williams Haughton as trustee for the estate. Account filed by William Lock as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 156-7
1783
[Name] Salt River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Christopher Senior and in the possession of Benjamin Williams Blake as trustee for the estate. Account filed by William Lock as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 21
1785
[Name] Salt River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Christopher Senior; account filed by William Lock, overseer of Salt River Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 60
1786
[Name] Salt River Estate  
[Crop] sugar,rum, cattle  
 

Property of the heirs of Christopher Senior Esq and in the possession of Benjamin Williams Blake as trustee; account filed by William Lock, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 195
1787
[Name] Salt River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Christopher Senior Esq and in the possession of William Blake Esq as trustee; account filed by William Lock, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 103