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Elderslie Hedge

Jamaica | Trelawny

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
1825 [SY] - → Annuitant
Margaret [surname unknown]
1825 [SY] - 1826 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
George Ogilvy
1825 [SY] - 1826 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
Ewen Cameron
1825 [SY] - → Residuary Legatee
John McIver
1817 [EA] - 1825 [EY] → Owner
John Black
1817 [EA] - 1825 [EY] → Enslaved
Margaret [surname unknown]

Notes

This estate was owned by John Black from at least 1817 until his death in 1825. At some point after the slave register of 1823, John manumitted his daughter Euphemia Black and her five children. Under the terms of Black's will, Margaret and her son John had been manumitted by June 1826. Black instructed that his Jamaican estate and the enslaved people upon it should be sold by trustees. Margaret was to receive an annuity of £70 Jamaican currency. His seven illegitimate children were to receive £50 sterling each. Two of his neices were to receive £1,500 sterling each and another neice £500 sterling. His residuary legatee was his nephew John McIver.

Estate Information (12)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 11(Tot)  
[Name] Elderslie Hedge  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to John Black.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot) 8(F) 7(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Black as owner.

 
T71/224 69-70
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 9(Tot)  
[Name] Elderslie Hedge  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to John Black.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 10(Tot)  
[Name] Elderslie Hedge  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to John Black.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot) 11(F) 7(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Black as owner.

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 10(Tot)  
[Name] Elderslie Hedge  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to John Black.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 12(Tot)  
[Name] Elderslie Hedge  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to John Black.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Black as owner.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1825
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Bequeathed by John Black to his nephew John McIver, with legacies of £1,500 sterling to two neices, £500 sterling to another neice and £50 sterling to each of his seven illegitimate children of colour. An enslaved person, Margaret, and her son Robert, were to be manumitted and Margaret to receive an annuity of £70 Jamaican currency.

 
PROB 11/1710/483
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 12(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to John Black.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 3(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

George Ogilvy & Ewen Cameron as Executors and Trustees of John Black deceased. Decreased of 8 enslaved people "Left free by John Black" 7 enslaved people sold to various owners.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Registered to the estate of John Black, assessed.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.