Braco 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
1798 [EA] - 1829 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£4,476 4S 11D

Estate Information (31)

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1790
[Name] Braco Estate of Gordons Bank Pimento Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by Robert Gibb, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1791
[Name] Braco Estate of Gordons Bank Pimento Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by Robert Gibb, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1792
[Name] Braco Estate of Gordons Bank Pimento Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by Robert Gibb, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1793
[Name] Braco Estate of Gordons Bank Pimento Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by Robert Gibb, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1794
[Name] Braco Estate of Gordons Bank Pimento Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by Robert Gibb, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1795
[Name] Braco Estate of Gordons Bank Pimento Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by Robert Gibb, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1798
[Name] Bracco Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to the Charles Gordon Esq. Account filed by Robert Gibb as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 126
1799
[Name] Braco Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, coffee, horses, cattle  
 

Account filed by Robert Gibb overseer. Belonging to Charles Gordon Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 127-129
1799
[Name] Braco  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawny as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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.
1800
[Name] Braco Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento and wood  
 

Belonging to Charles Gordon Esq. Account filed by Robert Gibb as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 70-71
1801
[Name] Braco Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, timber  
 

Belonging to Charles Gordon Esq. Account filed by George Marcus as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 81
1803
[Name] Braco Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, some cattle  
 

Account filed by George Marcus for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 198
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 627(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 105  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon

 
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] 353(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 347  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 365(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 324  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 346(Tot) 161(F) 185(M)  
[Name] Braco  
 

In the possession of Henry Gordon as Attorney to Charles Gordon the Owner.

 
T71/226 1077-1090
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 350(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 275  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 348(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 348(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
 

In the possession of Henry Gordon as Attorney of Charles Gordon the proprietor of Braco.

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 348(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 324  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon senior.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 337(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 293  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon senior.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 336(Tot) 162(F) 174(M)  
[Name] Braco  
 

In the possession of Charles Gordon as Proprietor.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 341(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 310  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon senior.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 330(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 326  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon senior.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot) 129(F) 140(M)  
[Name] Braco  
 

In the possession of James Galloway Esquire as Attorney for Charles Gordon Esquire Senior. 60 enslaved people transferred to Richmond Pen St Ann's .

 
T71/234 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 271(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon senior.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 302  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon senior.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Braco Estate  
 

In the possession of James Galloway as Attorney of Charles Gordon.

 
T71/237 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Braco  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Charles Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Braco Estate  
 

In the possession of James Galloway as Attorney to Charles Gordon. Decrease of 7 enslaved people "by transferred to Richmond Pen Saint Anns on the 29th June 1831".

 
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