Prospect Pen

Estate Details


Associated People (11)

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
- 12/12/1795 [ED] → Owner
12/12/1795 [SD] - → Trust beneficiary
12/12/1795 [SD] - → Trust beneficiary
26/02/1801 [SD] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
02/06/1808 [SD] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
11/03/1800 [SD] - → Joint owner
11/03/1800 [SD] - 02/10/1834 [ED] → Joint owner
26/02/1801 [SD] - 1808 [EY] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (2)

£3,601 8S 1D
£170 0S 6D

Estate Information (28)

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1790
[Name] Prospect Penn  
[Crop] Pimento, cattle  
 

Belonging to the Hon. Francis Dennis. Account filed by William Mathews.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 245-246
1791
[Name] Prospect Penn  
[Crop] Pimento, cattle, sheep  
 

The property of Francis Dennis [?] Esquire. Account filed by James Johnston as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 375 [f.183]
1792
[Name] Prospect Penn  
[Crop] Pimento  
 

The property of Francis Dennis Esquire. Account filed by James Johnston as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 268-269 [f.135]
1793
[Name] Prospect Penn  
[Crop] Pimento [?], cattle  
 

The property of Francis Dennis Esquire. Account filed by James Johnston as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 381-382
1794
[Name] Prospect Penn  
[Crop] pimento, cattle  
 

Property of Francis Dennis Esq. Account filed by James Thomas as overseer for the period 17/061/1794 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 107
1795
[Name] Prospect Penn  
[Crop] Hire of enslaved people, fat cattle, other stock  
 

Belonging to Henry Laird, Esq. Account filed by John Brown, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 35
1795
[Name] Prospect Penn  
[Crop] Steers, old cows, heifers  
 

Account filed by Benjamin Ramsay, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 4
1796
[Name] Prospect Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum, wainage,heifers, logwood, pimento  
 

Belonging to Francis Dennis, Esq, dec. Account filed by Donald Sinclair, overseer. Pembroke Hall and Prospect Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Prospect Penn  
[Crop] cattle, hire of enslaved people, rents, pimento  
 

Property of Francis Dennis Esq deceased. Account filed by William McDougaldClermont as overseer on Pembroke Hall Plantation. Pembroke Hall and Prospect Penn filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 22
1799
[Name] Prospect Penn  
[Crop] stock, pimento  
 

Account filed by J W Clement for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799. Pembroke Hall Plantation and Prospect Penn filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 194
1803
[Name] Prospect Penn  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Property of James Hewitt, Massey Dawsey and Hugh Ingalsby Massey Esq.s in the possession of John Hewitt. Account filed by George Hextall as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 43
1807
[Name] Prospect Pen  
[Crop] Pimento, livestock, pasturage, hire of enslaved people, logwood and mahogany  
 

Account filed by John La Biche as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 93
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 456(Tot)  
[Name] Pembroke Hall and Prospect  
[Stock] 253  
 

Registered to Francis Dennis deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 462(Tot)  
[Name] Pembroke Hall etc.  
[Stock] 221  
 

Registered to Francis Denniss deceased. Assumed to include Prosper Pen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot) 85(F) 86(M)  
[Name] Prospect Plantation  
 

Robert William Harris, attorney to Charles Nicholas Pallmer and James Hewit Massy Dawson as owners.

 
T 71/33 1046-1052
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect Pen  
[Stock] 167  
 

Registered to Charles Nicholas Pallmer and J. M. Dawson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect Pen  
[Stock] 153  
 

Registered to Palmer & Dawson. Number of enslaved people unclear.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot) 86(F) 89(M)  
[Name] Prospect Plantation  
 

James Lawes, attorney to Charles Nicholas Pallmer and James Hewit Massy Dawson, owners.

 
T 71/35 260-261
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect Pen  
[Stock] 181  
 

Registered to Pallmer and Dawson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect Pen  
[Stock] 182  
 

Registered to Pallmer and Dawson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot) 90(F) 89(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Lawes, attorney to Charles N Pallmer and J H M Dawson, owners.

 
T 71/36 134-135
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect Pen  
[Stock] 161  
 

Registered to Pallmer and Dawson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect Pen  
[Stock] 125  
 

Registered to Pallmer and Dawson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect Pen  
[Stock] 160  
 

Registered to Pallmer and Dawson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot) 93(F) 98(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Lawes, attorney to C N Pallmer and J H M Dawson, owners [increase by births].

 
T 71/39 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect Pen  
[Stock] 149  
 

Registered to Pallmer and Dawson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 203(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect Pen  
[Stock] 139  
 

Registered to Pallmer and Dawson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot) 95(F) 101(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Blair, attorney of J H M Dawson and Mrs Pallmer, owners [increase by births].

 
T 71/41 33