Alexandria

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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
1812 [SY] - → Trust beneficiary
1812 [SY] - 1826 [LA] → Trustee
1799 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Joint owner

The estate was under trusteeship in 1802-1803.

1799 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Joint owner

The estate was under trusteeship in 1802-1803.

1802 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Trustee
1810 [EA] - 1812 [LA] → Owner
1815 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Trustee
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

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£4,651 14S 10D

Estate Information (27)

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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
 

Registered in Hanover to Burt and Heron with 131 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] Alexandria  
[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.
1802
[Name] Alexandria Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Alexander Burt and Alexander Heron Esq.s on the order of Samuel Jeffries and Donald Malcolm Esq.s trustees for the estate. Account filed by Christopher Sevcarin [?] as overseer

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 6-7
1803
[Name] Alexandria Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Alexander Burt and Alexander Heron, Esq's. Account given in the names of Samuel Jeffries and Donald Malcolm, Esq's, trustees for said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 31
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 285(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria and Montpelier  
[Stock] 177  
 

Registered to Donald 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] 310(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria etc.  
[Stock] 39  
 

Registered to Donald Malcolm. Assumed to include Montpelier or Mount Pelier Estate.

 
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] 224(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 125  
 

Registered to Donald 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] 245(Tot) 115(F) 130(M)  
[Name] Alexandra Estate and Montpelier Pen  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell and Archibald Campbell, lawful attornies of Neill Malcolm and Charles Ns. Pallmer Esquire absentees from this island and trustees to the estate of Donald Malcolm Esquire deceased owner.

 
T71/190 486-491
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 114  
 

Registered to Donald 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] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 202  
 

Registered to heirs of Donald 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] 247(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell and Archibald Campbell attorneys to Neill Malcolm and Charles Nicholas Pallmer absentees from this island and trustees to the estate of Donald Malcolm Esquire deceased owner.

 
T71/191 402-403
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 181  
 

Registered to heirs of Donald 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] 265(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to heirs of Donald 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
[Name] Alexandria  
 

Three free people were living at Alexandria in the Hanover census of 1823: Donald Henderson, age 34, John McMorland, age 28 and Joseph Smith, age 58, all white. None of these people have been identified in the compensation records.

 
'A Census of the White & Brown inhabitants & other Persons of Free Condition of the Parish of Hanover distinguishing their Sexes, Colour, Ages and places of Residence' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Cen23ha1.htm.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot) 125(F) 131(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell and Archibald Campbell attornies of Neill Malcolm and Charles Nicholas Pallmer absentees from this island and trustees to the estate of Donald Malcolm esq. Deceased owner

 
T71/192 316-318
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 259(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 160  
 

Registered to heirs of Donald 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] 280(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 156  
 

Registered to heirs of Donald 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] 281(Tot) 136(F) 145(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell & Archibald Campbell as attornies of Neil Malcolm & Charles Nicholas Pallmer absentees from this island and trustees to the estate of Donald Malcolm Esquire deceased owner. 30 enslaved people "by removal from White Hill & Barracks Pens. St Elizabeth" since 1823.

 
T71/193 210-212
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to heirs of Donald 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] 276(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to heirs of Donald 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] 277(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to heirs of Donald 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] 275(Tot) 132(F) 143(M)  
[Name] Alexandria Estate  
 

In the possession of John Malcolm as attorney to Neill Malcolm Esquire.

 
T71/196 138
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 7  
 

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] 271(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 5  
 

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] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Alexandria  
[Stock] 4  
 

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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 265(Tot) 131(F) 134(M)  
[Name] Alexandria Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as attorney to Neill Malcolm Esquire .

 
T71/199 130
1839
[Name] Alexandria  
[Size] 1057  
 

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.