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Belford

Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey

Estate Details

Associated People (10)

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
1795 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Previous owner
Thomas Werge
1795 [EA] - → Not known
James Mudie

Filed Accounts Produce

1796 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Not known
Robert Stewart or Stuart
1817 [EA] - → Owner
Mary Werge
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Oswald Werge
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
Hon. George Kinghorn
1821 [EA] - → Previous owner
Mary Werge
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
James Sproull
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
James Junor
1832 [EA] - → Previous owner
Oswald Werge

Estate Information (15)

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1795
[Name] Belford Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people, plantains, pasturage  
 

Account filed by James Mudie. Belford Plantation/Harmony Plantation filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1796
[Name] Bellford Settlement  
[Crop] Hire of enslaved people, pasturage, cattle, plantains  
 

Belonging to the estate of Thomas Werge, dec. Account filed by Robert Stuart. Bellford and Harmony Settlements filed together. Bellford and Harmony Settlements filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1798
[Name] Belford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Stewart. Belonging in the estate of Thomas Werge Decd. Belford and Harmony filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 14
1799
[Name] Belford Plantation  
[Crop] jobbing, labour hire, sugar, rum, corn  
 

Belonging to Thomas Werge Esq deceased. Account filed by Robert Stuart.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 148-149
1800
[Name] Belford Settlement  
[Crop] Jobbing, copperwood and pasturage, sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Estate of Thomas Werge Esq deceased. Account filed by Robert Stuart.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 126-127
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 10(Tot)  
[Name] Belford  
 

Registered to Mary Werge.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1817.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot) 14(F) 5(M)  
[Name] Belford Plantation  
 

In the possession of Mary Werge as owner.

 
T71/145 808
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 10(Tot)  
[Name] Belford  
 

Registered to Mary Werge.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1819.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 13(Tot)  
[Name] Belford  
 

Registered to Mary Werge.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1820.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot)  
[Name] Belford Plantation  
 

In the possession of George Kinghorn as attorney to Oswald Werge (?), owner of Belford Plantation.

 
T71/146 495-496
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot)  
[Name] Belford  
 

Registered to estate of Mary Werge.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1821.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot)  
[Name] Bellford Plantation  
 

In the possession of John Junor and James Sproull as attornies to Oswald Werge (?), owner of Bellford Plantation.

 
T71/147 377
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot) 14(F) 4(M)  
[Name] Belford Plantation  
 

In the possession of James Sproull as attorney to Oswald Werge, owner of Belford Plantation.

 
T71/148 370
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot) 14(F) 7(M)  
[Name] Belford Plantation  
 

In the possession of James Sproull as attorney to Oswald Werge, owner of Belford Plantation.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot) 13(F) 8(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Sproull as attorney to the Heirs of Oswald Werge decd.

 
T71/150 531