Argyle 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
1799 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Owner
1830 [EA] - 1837 [EY] → Owner
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

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£4,071 19S 9D

Estate Information (28)

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1796
[Name] Argyle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of George Malcolm Esq. Account filed by Angus McCallum as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 73-74
1797
[Name] Argyle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of George Malcolm Esq. Account filed by Angus McPherson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 74
1798
[Name] Argyle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of George Malcolm Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 198
1799
[Name] Argyle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of George Malcolm Esq as kept by Donald Malcolm Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by George Wilson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 201-202
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
 

Registered in Hanover to George Malcolm with 212 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. 25.
1799
[Name] Argyll  
[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] 207(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
[Stock] 207  
 

Registered to George Malcolm.

 
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] 203(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
 

Registered to George Malcolm.

 
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] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
[Stock] 208  
 

Registered to John [?] Malcolm.

 
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] 253(Tot) 117(F) 136(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Malcolm as owner.

 
T71/190 570-575
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
[Stock] 246  
 

Registered to John Malcolm.

 
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] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
[Stock] 225  
 

Registered to John Malcolm.

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

In the possession of John Malcolm as owner.

 
T71/191 420-421
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
[Stock] 236  
 

Registered to John Malcolm.

 
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] 243(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
 

Registered to John Malcolm.

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

In the possession of John Malcolm as owner.

 
T71/192 329-330
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
[Stock] 226  
 

Registered to John Malcolm.

 
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] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
[Stock] 241  
 

Registered to John Malcolm.

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

In the possession of John Malcolm as owner.

 
T71/193 117-118
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
 

Registered to John Malcolm.

 
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] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
[Stock] 218  
 

Registered to John Malcolm.

 
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] 252(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
 

Registered to John Malcolm.

 
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] 251(Tot) 127(F) 124(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Malcolm as owner. 18 enslaved people purchased since 1826 when "registered last by Alexander Campbell as receiver for Content Estate".

 
T71/196 82
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
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] 245(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
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] 247(Tot) 123(F) 124(M)  
[Name] Argyle Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as attorney to Neill Malcolm Esquire. "By devise and registered by John Malcolm as owner in 1829"

 
T71/199 132-135
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 246(Tot)  
[Name] Argyle  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
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] Argyll  
[Size] 634  
 

Registered to Neil Malcolm.

 
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.