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Haughton Tower

Jamaica | St James

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Associated People (1)

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
Montague James

Notes

This may be the estate, also called Haughton Tower, owned by Haughton James II in 1774, possibly under the management of Montague James.

Estate Information (1)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 95  
 

Listed as belonging to Montague James with 2 men bearing arms and 2 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 165 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