Paisley 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] - → Owner
1780 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
1803 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1825 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Not known
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

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£3,135 18S 2D

Estate Information (48)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley/ Paisly  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 120  
 

Listed as belonging to Samuel Cleland with 3 men bearing arms and 3 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 76 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
1775
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, pimento  
 

Belonging to Samuel Clelland Esq. Account filed by Walter Begbie on the instruction of George Scott and William Brown Esq. trsutees of the said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 7
1776
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Samuel Clelland Esq. Account filed by Walter Begbie as overseer on the instruction of George Scott and William Brown Esqs. As trustees.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 128
1780
[Name] Paisley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, enslaved people  
 

Property of William Gordon Esquire. Delivered by order of Walter Murray Esquire attorney. Account filed by John Kettle, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 28
1784
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, pimento  
 

The property of William Gordon Esq. Account filed by Patrick Gray as overseer on the order of John Perry Esq. as attorney for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 175-6
1785
[Name] Paisley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Gordon of Bristol; account filed by James Patrick Gray, overseer of Paisley Plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 57
1785
[Name] Paisley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Gordon Esq; account filed by Patrick Gray, overseer of Paisley Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 65
1787
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Gordon Esquire of Bristol, Great Britain on the orders of John Perry Esquire attorney for the estate. Account filed by Patrick Gray as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 19-20 f.10
1788
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Gordon Esquire of Bristol, Great Britain on the orders of John Perry Esquire attorney for the estate. Account filed by James Patrick Gray as overseer. Accounts filed for The year 1788 to 24/05/1788.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 332
1789
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Gordon Esquire of Bristol, Great Britain on the orders of John Perry Esquire attorney for the estate. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer. Accounts filed for 15/09/1788 10 01/01/1790.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 335 f.165
1790
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Gordon Esquire of the City of Bristol, Great Britain on the orders of John Perry Esquire attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer. Accounts filed for 25/01/1790 to 21/05/1790.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 288-289 [f.144]
1791
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Gordon Esquire of Bristol, Great Britain on the orders of John Perry Esquire attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/02/1791 to 14/05/1791.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 411-412
1792
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Gordon Esquire of the City of London, Great Britain on the orders of John Perry Esquire attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer. Accounts filed for 08/02/1792 to 24/05/1792.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 426-427 [f.203]
1793
[Name] Paisley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, pimento, old brass and copper  
 

Property of William Gordon Esq of the city of London, Great Britain by John Perry Esq attorney for the estate. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer for the period 02/02/1793 to 23/06/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 3
1794
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, logwood  
 

Property of William Gordon Esq of the city of London, Great Britain by John Perry Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer for the period 29/01/1794 to 01/06/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 140
1795
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of William Gordon Esq of the City of London, Great Britain by John Perry Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer for the period 30/01/1795 to 31/05/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 250-251
1796
[Name] Paisley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people, cattle  
 

Account filed by Iain Morant,overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Paisley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enlaved people  
 

Belonging to William Gordon Esq. Account given by John Perry, attorney. Account filed by Samuel Moran, verseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 178
1798
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, lead, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of William Gordon Esq of Great Britain by John Perry Esq trustee for the plantation. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer for the period 23/01/1798 to 02/06/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 111
1799
[Name] Paisley plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, stock, jobbing  
 

Account filed by Samuel Mason overseer. The property of William Gordon Esquire of Lewiston county of Dorset. Given in by order of John and William Perry Esquire attornies for said plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 179-180
1799
[Name] Paisley  
[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.
1800
[Name] Paisley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people, old brass  
 

Property of William Gordon Esq of Leweston, Dorset, Great Britain on the order of John Perry Esq, trustee for the plantation. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer for the period 14/09/1799 to 28/06/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 166-167
1800
[Name] Paisley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Gordon Esq of Lewiston in the County of Dorset. Account given in by order of John Perry Esq, Attorney to the Trustee of said Plantation. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 145-146
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with William Gordon 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.
1803
[Name] Paisley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, beef, mules  
 

Property of Wm Gordon Esq deceased of Leweston, Dorset, Great Britain on the order of John Perry Esq, attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer for the period 01/12/1802 to 21/06/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 7
1804
[Name] Paisley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum, steers rent of horse, pasturage of horses and mules  
 

Belonging to the late William Gordon, Esq, of Dorset in Great Britain. Account given in the name of John Perry, Esq, attorneyto the trustees of the said plantation. Account filed by Samuel Moran, overseer to said plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 75
1807
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, copper teach, cattle, hire of enslaved people, pasturage and cart rings  
 

Belonging to the late William Gordon Esq. of Leweston in the county of Dorset in the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer given in by order of John Perry Esq. attorney for the estate. Filed for 4th Dec 1806-29th May 1807.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 30
1808
[Name] Paisley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late William Gordon Esq. of Lewiston in the county of Dorset in the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Samuel Moran as overseer and given in by order of John Perry Esq. as attorney. Filed for 1808 (27th Jan-16th June).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 152-153
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 162  
 

Registered to trustees of William Gordon.

 
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] 194(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 192  
 

Registered to trustees of William Gordon.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot) 87(F) 108(M)  
[Name] Paisley Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as attorney to the trustees of William Gordon deceased.

 
T71/201 225-230
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 221  
 

Registered to trustees of William Gordon.

 
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] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to the Trustees of William Gordon decd owner of Paisley Estate.

 
T71/206 256-257
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 283(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 223  
 

Registered to trustees of William Gordon.

 
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] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 220  
 

Registered to trustees of William Gordon.

 
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] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to the Trustees of William Gordon decd and as settled on Paisley Estate.

 
T71/209 110
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 210  
 

Registered to trustees of William Gordon.

 
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] 114(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 208  
 

Registered to Robert Gordon.

 
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] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to the Trustees of William Gordon.

 
T71/214 357-358
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 217  
 

Registered to Robert Gordon.

 
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] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to Robert Gordon.

 
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] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 41  
 

Registered to Robert Gordon.

 
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] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to the Trustees of William Gordon decd.

 
T71/217
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to Robert Gordon.

 
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] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 221  
 

Registered to Robert Gordon.

 
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] 165(Tot) 75(F) 90(M)  
[Name] Paisley Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to Robert Gordon.

 
T71/222 200
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Paisley  
[Stock] 51  
 

Registered to Robert Gordon.

 
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] Paisley  
[Size] 760  
 

Registered to Robert Gordon.

 
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.