Point Sugar 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
1754 [SY] - 27/10/1809 [ED] → Owner

Inherited the estates of his father David Dehany under the latter's will, proved 1754.

27/10/1809 [SD] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
1759 [EA] - 1765 [LA] → Attorney

Tentative association only by LBS

1759 [EA] - 1759 [LA] → Joint owner

Shown as joint owner with Mrs Mary Dehany, presumably his mother.

1787 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Attorney
1788 [EA] - 1797 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner

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£8,085 3S 9D

Estate Information (70)

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1759
[Name] Point Crop Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Mrs Mary Dehany and Phillip Dehany Esquire, delivered by order of James Kerr Esquire attorney for said estate. Account filed by John Scott, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 114-115
1762
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by James Campbell as overseer on the instuction of James Kerr Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 44
1763
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by James Campbell as overseer on the instuction of James Kerr Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 57
1763
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by James Campbell as overseer on the instuction of James Kerr Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 81
1763
[Name] The Point  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Hanover in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a wind mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1765
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by Donald Campbell as overseer on the instuction of James Kerr Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 154
1766
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by Donald Campbell as overseer on the instuction of John Wedderburn Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 167
1767
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by Donald Campbell as overseer on the instuction of John Wedderburn Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 46
1768
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by Donald Campbell as overseer on the instuction of John Wedderburn Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 101
1769
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by Neil Campbell as overseer on the instuction of James Kerr Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 157
1770
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by Neil Campbell as overseer on the instuction of James Kerr Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 14
1771
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by James McKillop as overseer on the instuction of James Kerr Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 70
1772
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by James McKillop as overseer on the instuction of James Kerr Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 42
1773
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by James McKillop as overseer on the instuction of James Kerr Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 68
1774
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by James McKillop as overseer on the instruction of George Scott and William Brown Esqs. as attorneys to the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 240
1775
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by James McKillop as overseer on the order of George Scott and William Brown Esqs. attorneys for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 19-20
1778
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, copper, temper line, lime, an iron boiler  
 

The Property of Philip Dehany Esquire, delivered by order of George Scott & William Brown Esquire, attorneys. Account filed by William Peddie, bookkeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 102
1779
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Philip Dehany Esquire given in by order of George Scott and William Brown Esquires attorneys for said Estate. Account filed by Henry Scrymgeour (sp?), overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 61-62
1780
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed for 1 Jan 1780 to 1 July 1780. The property of Philip Dehany Esquire, delivered by order of George Scott & William Brown Esquire, attorneys. Account filed by Henry Scrymgeour, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 112
1781
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esquire, delivered by order of George Scott & William Brown Esquire, attorneys. Account filed by Henry Scrymgeour (sp?).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 103-104
1782
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esquire on the orders of George Scott and William Brown Esquires attornies for the estate. Account filed by Henry Scrymgeour as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 178
1783
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by Henry Scrumgean (sp) as overseer on the instuction of William Brown as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 46
1784
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by James McClyment as overseer on the instuction of James Kerr Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 218
1785
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by James McClaymont as overseer on the instuction of William Brown as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 4-5
1786
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Philip Dehany Esq; account filed by James M Clyment, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 66
1787
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

James McClymont, overseer, by order of Samuel Mure and William Dunlop Esqs, attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 8
1788
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] Cotton, sugar, rum, old brass, some cattle,  
 

on the orders of Samuel Muir and William Dunlop Esquires attornies for the estate. Account filed by James McClymont as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 243-244 f.131
1789
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, old copper  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esquire delivered by order of Samuel Mure and William Dunlop Esquires attornies for the plantation. Account filed by James McClymont as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01/1789 to 12/05/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 171 [f.87]
1790
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esquire delivered by order of Samuel Mure and William Dunlop Esquires attornies for the plantation. Account filed by James McClymont as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01/1790 to 15/06/1790.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 369 [f.184]
1791
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, old brass  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esquire delivered by order of Samuel Mure and William Mure Dunlop Esquires attornies for the plantation. Account filed by James McClymont as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 445 [f.223]
1792
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esquire on the orders of Samuel Mure Esquire attorney for the plantation. Account filed by James McClymont as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/07/1791 to 01/07/1792.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 446-447
1793
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esquire disposed of by order of Samuel Ware Esquire attorney for the plantation. Account filed by James Clymont as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 336-337 [f.169]
1794
[Name] Point Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Philip Dehany Esq on the order of Samuel Mure Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by James McClyson as overseer for the period 01/07/1793 to 01/07/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 127-128
1795
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Philip Dehany Esq on the order of Samuel Mure Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by James McClymont as overseer for the period 01/07/1794 to 01/07/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 143
1796
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Philip Delany, Esq. Account given by Samuel Mure, Esq, attorney. Account filed by James McClymont, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 52
1797
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Philip Delany, Esq. Account given by Samuel Mure, Esq, attorney. Account filed by James McClymont, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 93
1797
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Philip Delane, Esq. Account given by Samuel Mure, Esq, attorney. Account filed by James McClymont, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Philip Dehany Esq on the order of Messrs Atkinson, Mure, Bogle and Co. Account filed by James McClymont as overseer for the period 01/07/1797 to 01/07/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 75
1798
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Philip Dehany Esq on the order of Matthew Atkinson Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by James McClymont as overseer for the period 01/07/1798 to 01/07/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 71
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 367(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
 

Registered in Hanover to Philip Dehany with 367 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 24.
1799
[Name] Dehaneys Point  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and two windmills 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.
1799
[Name] Point? Estate  
[Crop] Rum, 4 Slaves and wood?  
 

Account filed by Charles Loughnan overseer on Point? Estate in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 3
1799
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Philip Dehany Esq on the order of Matthew Atkinson Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by James McClymont as overseer for the period 01/07/1799 to 01/07/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 109
1801
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehaney Esq, delivered by the order of Matthew Atkinson Esq, attorney to the said plantation. Account filed by James McClymont as overseer; also sold one old, fat steer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 149
1803
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, old copper  
 

Property of Philip Dehany Esq on the order of Matthew Atkinson Esq attorney for the estate. Account filed by Timothy Hall as overseer for the year 1803 to 01/07/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 13
1804
[Name] Point Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Philip Delany, Esq. Account given in the name of Matthew Atkinson, Esq, attorney to said estate. Account filed by Timothy Hall, overseer of said estate. Account filed for 1803-1804.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 78
1807
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Philip Duhaney Esq. Disposal of crop delivered by the order of Messers Atkinson Bogle and Co. as attornies for the estate. Account filed by Timothy Hall as overseer. Filed for 1st July 1806-1st July 1807.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 50-51
1808
[Name] Point  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Disposal of estate produce thereof delivered by order of Messers Atkinson Bogle and Co. attornies for the estate. Account filed by Robert Fergusson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 189-190
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 591(Tot)  
[Name] Barbican and Point  
[Stock] 222  
 

Registered to Mary S. Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 596(Tot)  
[Name] Point etc.  
[Stock] 43  
 

Registered to Mary S. Dehany.

 
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] 386(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to Mary Salter Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 388(Tot) 200(F) 188(M)  
[Name] Point Estate  
 

In the possession of James Greenfield as attorney to Mary Salter Dehany, an absentee.

 
T71/190 228-240
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 385(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 130  
 

Registered to Mary Salter Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 392(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 123  
 

Registered to Mary Salter Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 404(Tot)  
[Name] Point Estate  
 

In the possession of George Atkinson as attorney to Mary Salter Dehany proprietor an absentee.

 
T71/191 169-171
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 409(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 149  
 

Registered to Mary Salter Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 395(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to Mary Salter Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 409(Tot) 214(F) 195(M)  
[Name] Point Estate  
 

In the possession of George Atkinson as attorney to Mary Salter Dehany an absentee.

 
T71/192 161-163
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 398(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 213  
 

Registered to Mary Salter Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 405(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 236  
 

Registered to Mary Salter Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 399(Tot) 206(F) 193(M)  
[Name] Point Estate  
 

In the possession of George Atkinson as attorney to Mary Salter Dehany an absentee.

 
T71/193 235-237
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 392(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 136  
 

Registered to Mary Salter Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 405(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to Mary Salter Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 410(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 28  
 

Registered to Mary Salter Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 409(Tot) 212(F) 197(M)  
[Name] Point Estate  
 

In the possession of George Atkinson as attorney to Mary Salter Dehany an absentee.

 
T71/195 3-4
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 413(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to Mary Salter Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 413(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Mary S. Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 415(Tot) 198(F) 217(M)  
[Name] Point  
 

In the possession of George Atkinson as attorney to William Knight Dehany an Absentee. By transfer from Mary Salter Dehany on the 24th day of May 1834

 
T71/198 1, 8-11
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 416(Tot)  
[Name] Point  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to Mary Dehany.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Point etc  
[Size] 1933  
 

Registered to William K. Dehany. Assumed to include Barbican and Paradise.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.