Lima Estate

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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 [EY] → Owner
1787 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
1804 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

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£5,096 12S 7D

Estate Information (46)

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1770
[Name] Lima  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Robert Fowler as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 185
1771
[Name] Lima  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Robert Fowler as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 185
1772
[Name] Lima  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Robert Fowler as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 7
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 125  
 

Listed as belonging to John Erskine with 6 men bearing arms and 3 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 110 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1787
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Filed for 1 Nov 1786 to 31 Dec 1787. The property of the heirs of John Erskin Esq deceased in the hands of his trustees; account filed by Robert Lachlan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 59-60
1788
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of John Erskine Esquire deceased in the hands of his trustees. Account filed by Robert Lachlan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 262-263 f.141
1789
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of John Erskine Esquire deceased in the hands of his trustees. Account filed by Robert Lachlan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 299-300 f.148
1790
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of John Erskine Esquire deceased in the hands of his trustees. Account filed by Robert Lachlan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 295-296 [f.147]
1791
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of John Erskine Esquire deceased in the hands of his trustees. Account filed by Robert Lachlan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 200-201 [f.95]
1792
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Lachlan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 148-149
1793
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Hugh Milroy as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 365-366 [f.183]
1794
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of the heirs of John Erskine Esq deceased in the hands of his trustees. Account filed by Robert Lachlan as overseer for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 37-38
1794
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cows, heifers, calves, coffee  
 

Belonging to John Erskine Esq dec. Account given by Samuel Sharpe, trustee. Account filed by Robert Lachlan, former overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1796
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cows, heifers, calves, coffee  
 

Belonging to John Erskine Esq dec. Account given by Samuel Sharpe, trustee. Account filed by Andrew Little, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1796
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cows, heifers, calves, coffee  
 

Belonging to John Erskine Esq dec. Account given by Samuel Sharpe, trustee. Account filed by Andrew Little, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cows, heifers, calves  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Erskine, Esq, dec. Account given by Samuel Sharp, trustee. Account filed by Andrew Little, overseer, also by Duncan Wright, wharfinger.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 152
1798
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of the heirs of John Erskine Esq deceased in the hands of Samuel Sharples his trustee. Account filed by Andrew Little as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 241-242
1799
[Name] Lima  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1799
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of John Erskine Esq deceased in the hands of Samuel Sharples his trustee. Account filed by Andrew Little as overseer for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 56-58
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 352(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with the heirs of John Erskine as the proprietor.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 26. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1800
[Name] Lima sugar Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Erskine Esq deceased in the hands of his trustee Samuel Sharpe Esq. Account filed by Andrew Little as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 07/08/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 41
1803
[Name] Lima Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of the heirs of John Erskine Esq deceased in the hands of Alexander Mudie Esq attorney to Alexander Erskine Esq. Account filed by Andrew Little as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 175-176
1804
[Name] Lima Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum, steers, cows, heifers, calves, ewes, lambs  
 

Belonging to Alexander Erskine, Esq, in Great Britain. Account given in the name of John Fletcher Coward, attorney for said plantation. Account filed by Andrew Little,overseer to said plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 89
1808
[Name] Lima  
[Crop] sugar, rum, iron, livestock and hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to Alexander Erskine Esq. in the Kingdom of Great Britain. Crop account given in by order of Alexander Mudie Esq. Under the care and direction of Alexander Munro as overseer. Account filed by Alexander Munro.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 52-53
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 337(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 74  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 334(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 63  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 294(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 278  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 310(Tot) 162(F) 148(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Mudie as attorney to Alexander Erskine the owner.

 
T71/202 90-98
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 291  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 317(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 309  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 322(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Mudies as Attorney to Alexander Erskine, the owner.

 
T71/205 205-207
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 361(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 304  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 331(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 299  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 323(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Samuel Jackson jnr as Attorney to Alexander Erskine Esq, the owner.

 
T71/211 303-305
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 327(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 290  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 322(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 279  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 311(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Samuel Jackson jnr Esq as Attorney to Alexander Erskine Esq.

 
T71/214 297-298
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 314(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 271  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 302(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 69  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 305(Tot)  
[Name] Lima Estate  
 

In the possession of John Gunn as Attorney of Alexander Erskine.

 
T71/217
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 41  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 270  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 292(Tot)  
[Name] Lima Estate  
 

In the possession of John Gunn as Attorney to Alexander Erskine Esq.

 
T71/222 211
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot)  
[Name] Lima  
[Stock] 58  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Lima  
[Size] 2623  
 

Registered to Alexander Erskine.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.