Dover 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
1775 [EA] - 1802 [LA] → Owner
1803 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
1803 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Owner

Shown as 'property of' Thomas B .Howell, but the estate was left to him for life by his father and then to pass to his son Thomas Jones Howell.

1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Previous owner
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (2)

£707 19S 7D
£3,301 14S 0D

Estate Information (51)

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1775
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Howell Esq. Account filed by James McPherson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 84
1776
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Howell Esq. Account filed by James McPherson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 63
1777
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Howel Esq. Account field by James Macpherson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 130
1778
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Pickering as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 84
1779
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Howel Esq. Account filed by John Joyce as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 171
1780
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Howell Esq. Account filed by John Joyce as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 193
1781
[Name] Dover Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Howell Esquire. Account filed by Edmund Smith.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 56
1782
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Howell Esquire. Account filed by William Clarke.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 189-190 f.95
1783
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Howell Esq. Account filed by John Jones as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 86
1784
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Howell Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 38-39
1786
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Tho.s Baxter as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 174
1786
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Clarke.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 92
1787
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Powney as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 40-41 f.21
1788
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to John Howell Esquire. Account filed by John Cubbison as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 115
1789
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Cubbison as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 198
1790
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Howell Esquire. Account filed by John Cubbison as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 293-294
1791
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Howell Esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by Richar Robert Lloyd as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 235 [f.112]
1792
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Howell Esquire. Account filed by Allan Cameron.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 282
1793
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Howell Esq. Account filed by Duncan Campbell as overseer for the period 31/12/1792 to 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 82
1794
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Duncan Campbell as overseer for the period ending 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 177
1795
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Howell Esq. Account filed by Duncan Campbell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 185
1796
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Samuel Oliverm status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 84
1797
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Pitkin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 39
1798
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow  
 

Property of John Howell Esq. Account filed by Philip Jaquet as overseer for the period 01/01/1798 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 146
1798
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St George as a sugar estate with a watermill 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, and rum  
 

Account filed by Philip Laquet as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 2
1800
[Name] Dover Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Howell Esq Account filed by Philip Jaqurt for the period 01/01/1800 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 134
1803
[Name] Dover Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people, cattle, old copper  
 

Property of Thomas B Howell Esq. Account filed by Philip Jaquet attorney and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 105-106
1807
[Name] Dover  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Property of Thomas Bayley Howell Esq. Account presented by Philip Jaqurt as attorney and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 210
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11George.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] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812and.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 146  
 

Registered to T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 126  
 

Registered to heirs of T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot) 69(F) 108(M)  
[Name] Dover  
 

In the possession of Philip Jaquet as Attorney to the Estate of Thomas Bayly Howell Esq deceased.

 
T71/158 351
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 119  
 

Registered to heirs of T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 120  
 

Registered to heirs of T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
 

In the possession of Philip Jaquet as Attorney of Dover the Estate of Thomas Bayly Howell Esqr. dec'd.

 
T71/159 156
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to heirs of T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 104  
 

Registered to heirs of T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot) 66(F) 85(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Philip Jaquet as Attorney for the Estate of Thomas Bayly Howell.

 
T71/160 354
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 99  
 

Registered to heirs of T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot) 66(F) 79(M)  
[Name] Dover Estate  
 

In the possession of James Shenton Esquire as Proprietor of Dover Estate formerly returned for by Philip Jaquet Esqre as Attorney of T.B. Howell Esqre dec'd..

 
T71/161 313
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to heirs of T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to heirs of T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to heirs of T. B. Howell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29portgeorg.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot) 92(F) 92(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Shenton as Owner. Increase of 52 enslaved people by purchase of John Bell Esquire and registered last by William Robertson, 1 enslaved person purchased of R. S. Cooper Kingston.

 
T71/162 389
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to James Shenton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to James Shenton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Dover  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to James Shenton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot) 93(F) 80(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Shenton Esquire as Owner. Previous total was entered as 184 by mistake with one extra female enslaved person.

 
T71/163 383
1839
[Name] Dover  
[Size] 1467  
 

Registered to William Robertson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.