Copse 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
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Joint owner
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Joint owner
1815 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - → Receiver

Associated Claims (1)

£6,325 12S 6D

Estate Information (23)

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1799
[Name] Copse  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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.
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 324(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 261  
 

Registered to Colin and Alexander Campbell.

 
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] 333(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 61  
 

Registered to Colin and Alexander Campbell.

 
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] 439(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 333  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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] 404(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 236  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 385(Tot) 185(F) 200(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In possession of Alexander Campbell as owner.

 
T71/190 181-189
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 384(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 314  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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] 391(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 322  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 369(Tot)  
[Name] Copse Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell as proprietor and receiver of the Copse Estate.

 
T71/191 91-92
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 384(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 88  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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] 394(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 361  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 382(Tot) 190(F) 192(M)  
[Name] Copse Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell as owner.

 
T71/192 45-48
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 390(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 393  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 93  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 375(Tot) 196(F) 179(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell as owner.

 
T71/193 447-451
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 386(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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] 393(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 130  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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] 377(Tot) 198(F) 179(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell as owner.

 
T71/194 78-79
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 394(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 144  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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] 391(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell. Number of stock illegible.

 
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] 389(Tot)  
[Name] Copse  
[Stock] 132  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 371(Tot) 165(F) 206(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell as owner.

 
T71/198 99-100
1839
[Name] Copse and Beverly  
[Size] 3185  
 

Registered to Alexander Campbell.

 
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.