Elim Estate

[Name] Elime  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

Estate of Collonel John Foster deceased under the direction of Florentius Vassell Esq. executor. Account filed by Florentius Vassell executor of Collonel John Foster deceased and Robert Wright Principal Servant managing the estate of the said Collonel John Foster. The estates of Elime, Two Mile Wood, Lancasters, Dawkins and the unnamed estate were filed together.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 123

[Name] Ellynn  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  

Filed for 25th Dec 1741 - 25th Dec 1742. Estate belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. Account filed by Archibald Clarke of the parish of St. Elizabeth gent and overseer of the estate.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 215

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. Account filed by Archibald Clarke as overseer of the plantation.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 74

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  

Estate of Thomas Foster of London Esq. under the direction of James Cunningham Esq. attorney of the said Thomas Foster Esq. Account filed by William Sayers as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 105

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, coffee, ginger, cocoa and pimento, livestock and mahogany  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. Account filed by Charles Kiern as attorney.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 26

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] Sugar  

Plotted in St Elizabeth in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a water mill.

Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, coffee, ginger, cocoa and pimento, livestock and mahogany  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. Account filed by Charles Kiern [Hiern] as attorney.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 56

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, coffee, ginger, cocoa and pimento, livestock and mahogany  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. Account filed by Charles Kiern [Hiern] as attorney.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 123

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, coffee, ginger, cocoa and pimento, livestock and mahogany  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. Account filed by Charles Kiern [Hiern] as attorney.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 159

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, coffee, ginger, cocoa and pimento, livestock and mahogany  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. Account filed by Charles Kiern [Hiern] as attorney.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 31

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. deceased. Account filed by James Campbell as attorney.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 146

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  

Belonging to the heirs of Thomas Foster Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Smalling as attorney.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 164

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  

Belonging to the heirs of Thomas Foster Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Smalling as attorney.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 67

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  

Belonging to the heirs of Thomas Foster Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Smalling as attorney.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 76

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Smalling as attorney.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 140

[Name] Elim Estate and Pen  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. Account filed by John Niven as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 119

[Name] Elim Estate and Pen  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. Account filed by John Niven as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 119

[Name] Elim Estate and Pen  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq. Account filed by John Niven as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 178-9

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Belonging to Thomas Forbes Esq; account filed by John Niven, overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 78

[Name] Elin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, stags, horses, mules, cattle  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq; account filed by John Niven as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 203

[Name] Elin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, horses, mules, cattle  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq; account filed by John Niven as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 203-204

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] Horses, cattle  

The property of Thomas Foster Esquire in the possession of Charles Rowe Esquire. Account filed by said Charles Rowe as his attorney. Accounts filed for 27/06/1787 to 31/12/1787.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 74

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, mules, cattle, horses, stag, old copper  

The property of Thomas Foster Esquire under the care and direction of Charles Rowe Esquire his attorney. Account filed by Robert Pickering.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 85-86 [f.43]

[Name] Elm  
[Crop] Mules, hire of enslaved people, cattle, wharfage, horses, sugar, cotton  

The property of Thomas Foster Esquire uner the care and direction of Charles Rowe Esquire his attorney. Account filed by John Coley as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 352-353

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, mules, cattle and horses  

The property of Thomas Foster Esquire under the care and direction of Charles Rowe Esquire his attorney. Account filed by John Coley as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 304-306

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, horses, mules, labour hire  

The property of Thomas Foster under the care and direction of Charles Rowe Esqire his attorney. Account filed by John Coley as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 226-227

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

The property of John Foster Esquire, under the care of Robert Peart Esquire his attorny. Account fled by John Coley as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 136

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

The property of John Foster Esquire, under the care of Robert Peart Esquire his attorny. Account fled by John Coley as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 439-440 [f.220]

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper, brass and iron, hire of enslaved people  

Property of Thomas Foster Esq under the care and management of Robert Peart Esq his attorney. Account filed by John Coley as overseer for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 111-113

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pasturage, jobbing, steers, hire of enlaved people  

Account filed by John Coley, planter.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 47

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hors, steers, stag, cows,heifer, old copper, cart and hire of enslaved people, wharfage, jobbing  

Belonging to Thomas Foster, Esq. Account given by Robert Peart? Esq. Account filed by John Coley overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people,pasturage, mules, horse  

Belonging to Thomas Foster? Esq. Account given by Henry Waite Plummer, Esq. Account filed by John Coley, overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 163

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, mules, cart hire, hire of enslaved people, pasturage, wharfage  

Property of John Foster Esq under the care and management of Henry Waite Plummer his attorney. Account filed by John Coley as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1798.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 199-200

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people, old brass  

Belonging to John Foster Esq under the care and management of Henry Waite Plummer his attorney. Account filed by John Coley as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1799.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 54

[Name] Elim  
[Crop] Sugar  

Plotted in St Elizabeth 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

Account filed by Robert (?) Waite Plummer, late Attorney of Thomas Foster Esq.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 216-217

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, cattle, logwood, sale of some old copper and iron, hire of enslaved people  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq and under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries, Attorney for the same. Account filed by Peter Prim as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 72

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, copper  

Belonging to Thomas Foster Esq under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries his attorney. Account filed by E P Petgrave as overseer for the year ending 01/06/1803

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 177

[Name] Elim Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, mules and cattle  

Belonging to Thomas Foster, Esq. Account given in the name of John White, Esq, attorney to said estate. Account filed in the name of Adam Copland, overseer to said estate.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 181

[Number of enslaved people] 420(Tot)  
[Name] Elim and Modina  
[Stock] 422  

Registered to Thomas Foster.

Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 420(Tot)  
[Name] Elim  
[Stock] 280  

Registered to Thomas Foster.

Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co1.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 375(Tot) 181(F) 194(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of James Daly as attorney to Thomas Foster Esquire.

T71/164 268-278

[Number of enslaved people] 368(Tot)  
[Name] Elim  
[Stock] 324  

Registered to Thomas Foster.

Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 366(Tot)  
[Name] Elim  
[Stock] 339  

Registered to Thomas Foster.

Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 373(Tot) 177(F) 196(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of David Morrice as attorney of Thomas Forster.

T71/167 450-452

[Number of enslaved people] 373(Tot)  
[Name] Elim  
[Stock] 339  

Registered to Thomas Foster.

Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 374(Tot)  
[Name] Elim  
[Stock] 435  

Registered to Thomas Foster.

Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 371(Tot) 184(F) 187(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of David Morrice as attorney to the trustees of Thomas Foster deceased and guardian to Eugine Frederick Foster a minor. All registered in 1820 by David Morrice as attorney to Thomas Foster since deceased. This register gives two specific causes of death: James Smith, Quadroon, age 17, Creole, killed; Tatta, negro, age 47, Creole, found hung.

T71/168 443-445

[Number of enslaved people] 372(Tot)  
[Name] Elim  
[Stock] 338  

Registered to E. F. Foster.

Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 384(Tot)  
[Name] Elim  
[Stock] 301  

Registered to Eugene F. Foster.

Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of Duncan Robertson and William Ridgard as executors to attorney of Eugene Frederick Foster. Previous registration was for 371 enslaved people. By the decease of Eugene Frederick Foster these slaves become the property of John Forster.

T71/169 593-603

[Number of enslaved people] 381(Tot) 192(F) 189(M)  
[Name] Elim Estate  

In the possession of Duncan Robertson and William Ridgard as attorneys of John Forster. By the decease of Eugene Frederick Foster.

T71/169 603-613

[Number of enslaved people] 385(Tot)  
[Name] Elim  
[Stock] 294  

Registered to John Foster.

Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 390(Tot) 190(F) 190(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of Wm Ridgard and Dn Robertson as attornies to John Forster Esquires. Totals illegible. 19- and 19- with the total of 39-.

T71/172 [Unpaginated]

[Number of enslaved people] 387(Tot)  
[Name] Elim  
[Stock] 183  

Registered to John Forster.

Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 377(Tot)  
[Name] Elim  
[Stock] 346  

Registered to John Foster.

Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 385(Tot) 201(F) 184(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of William Ridgard Esquire and the Hon. Duncan Robertson as attornies for John Forster Esquire.

T71/176 377

[Number of enslaved people] 375(Tot)  
[Name] Elim  
[Stock] 200  

Registered to John Foster.

Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Name] Elim  
[Size] 4560  

Registered to John Forster.

Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Eliza.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.