Mount Pleasant Pen

Estate Details


Associated People (6)

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
1770 [EA] - 1772 [LA] → Owner
1805 [EA] - 1806 [LA] → Previous owner

Given as Basil Cooper

1819 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Other

Apparently previously joint owner of enslaved people sold to a new owner of this estate.

1820 [EA] - → Other

Apparently previously joint owner of enslaved people sold to a new owner of this estate.

1820 [EA] - → Other

Apparently previously joint owner of enslaved people sold to a new owner of this estate.


Associated Claims (1)

£1,598 5S 10D

Estate Information (22)

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1770
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Belonging to Job William Williams, a minor. George Williams as guardian. Account filed by William Lester as overseer. Mount Pleasant and pimento Walk are both names used for this property.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 232
1772
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Belonging to Job William Williams, a minor. Account filed by George Williams as guardian. Mount Pleasant and pimento Walk are both names used for this property.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 32
1772
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Belonging to Job William Williams, a minor. George Williams as guardian. Mount Pleasant and pimento Walk are both names used for this property.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 9
1805
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pimento, coffee, wood, livestock, pasturage and hire of enslaved people.  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Basil Cooper Esq. deceased. Account filed by Henry Dunbar formerly acting as overseer and James Marshall now overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 44-45
1806
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pimento, coffee, hard timber, fustick, stock, pasturage and hire of enslaved people.  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Basil Cooper Esq. deceased. Account filed by James Marshall overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 45-46
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis. Possibly not Mount Pleasant, which may have been purchased between 1817 and 1820.

 
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.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis.

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

Charles Lewis as owner. 57 enslaved people acquired "removed from Mount Nebo St Ann's", 60 enslaved people acquired "By purchase, returned by John McQueen in right of Margaret his wife and Mary Ann Cooper as owners in Trelawny".

 
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis.

 
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.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis.

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

Charles Lewis as owner.

 
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis.

 
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.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 55  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis.

 
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] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

Charles Lewis as owner.

 
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis.

 
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.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 55  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis.

 
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] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis.

 
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] 106(Tot) 53(F) 53(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Charles Lewis as owner.

 
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis.

 
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.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 85  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 73  
 

Registered to Charles Lewis.

 
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] 113(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Pen  
 

The Honorable William Miller as Executor of Charles Lewis Esquire deceased.

 
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