Morant Bay

Estate Details


Associated People (7)

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
1811 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
1829 [EA] - → Previous owner
1829 [EA] - → Administrator
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
1834 [EA] - → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£1,374 18S 7D

Notes

Not named in the almanacs. An estate named as Morant Bay Pen according to Christer Petley White Fury p. 53 appeared in the probate inventory of Simon Taylor of Jamaica with 68 enslaved people valued at £4790. It is not clear whether that entry refers to this estate, which had 66 enslaved people in 1815.


Estate Information (21)

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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to Ebenezer Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1815.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to Ebenezer Taylor.

 
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] 66(Tot) 7(F) 59(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Ebenezer Taylor as owner.

 
T71/145 779-781
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to Ebenezer Taylor.

 
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] 65(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Ebenezer Taylor.

 
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] 64(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Ebenezer Taylor as owner.

 
T71/146 434-435
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Ebenezer Taylor.

 
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] 69(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Ebenezer Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1823.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Ebenezer Taylor as owner.

 
T71/147 345-346
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Ebenezer Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1825.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to Ebenezer Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1826.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot) 9(F) 64(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Ebenezer Taylor as owner.

 
T71/148 337
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Ebenezer Taylor and Co.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1827.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Ebenezer Taylor and Co.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1828.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hugh Paterson as joint owner with George Taylor and Paul Simpson; increase owing to purchase of 70 enslaved people from Ebenezer Taylor and subsequent sale of 11 enslaved people.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 2(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hugh Paterson as Administrator to the Estate of Ebenezer Taylor decd.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Registered to Ebenezer Taylor and Co.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1830
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to George Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1831.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to George Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1832.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Taylor as owner; increase owing to purchase of 59 enslaved people from various vendors.

 
T71/150 496
1832
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hugh Paterson as joint owner with George Taylor and Paul Simpson .

 
T71/150 402