Purling Stream 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] - → Previous owner
1774 [EA] - → Joint owner
1815 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

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£916 3S 11D

Estate Information (26)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 36  
 

Listed as belonging to Agnes Bryan/Estate Daniel Bryan with 1 men bearing arms and 5 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 39 trcs. 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
1799
[Name] Purling-Stream  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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] Purling Stream Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Bryan Esq in the hands of Samuel Sharpe Esq the receiver appointed by the High Court of Chancery. Account filed by Jeremiah Carrol as overseer for the period 17/10/1799 to 17/08/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 40
1801
[Name] Purling Stream Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Ryburn. Account filed by Jeremiah Carroll as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 183
1803
[Name] Purling Stream Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Bryan Esq. Account filed by James Gray as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 24
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to James Gray deceased.

 
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] 49(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to James Gray deceased.

 
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] 47(Tot)  
[Name] Purling-Stream  
 

Registered to Hon. William Murray.

 
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] 59(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 46  
 

Registered to Hon. William Murray.

 
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] 50(Tot) 28(F) 22(M)  
[Name] Purling Stream Estate  
 

In the possession of Walter Murray as attorney to William Murray.

 
T71/201 372-373
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to Honorable William Murray.

 
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] 86(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to Hon. William Murray.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to William Murray owner of Purling Stream Estate.

 
T71/206 254
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 68  
 

Registered to William Murray.

 
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] 76(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 68  
 

Registered to William Murray.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream Estate  
 

In the possession of Walter Murray as Attorney to William Murray the owner and as settled on Purling Stream Estate.

 
T71/210 99
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 67  
 

Registered to William Murray.

 
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] 46(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream Estate  
 

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

 
T71/214 328
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to William Murray.

 
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] 51(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to William Murray.

 
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] 53(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to William Murray.

 
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] 49(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon and Henry Hunter as Attornies to William Murray.

 
T71/219 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 53(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to William Murray.

 
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] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to William Murray.

 
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] 48(Tot)  
[Name] Purling Stream Estate  
 

In the possession of Henry Hunter as Attorney to William Murray.

 
T71/222 335
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] Purring Stream  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to William Murray.

 
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.