Frome

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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
- 09/04/1818 [ED] → Owner
1768 [EA] - 1773 [EY] → Owner
1774 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Owner
1799 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Receiver
1820 [EA] - 1837 [LA] → Previous owner
1832 [EA] - → Receiver

Associated Claims (2)

£1,877 4S 5D
£802 18S 7D

Estate Information (55)

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1763
[Name] Froome  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Westmoreland in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a water mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1768
[Name] Froom  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Storer Esq. Account filed by William Graham as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 144
1769
[Name] Froome  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Storer Esq. Account filed by William Graham as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 36
1770
[Name] Froome  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Storer Esq. Account filed by Thomas Anderson as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 36
1771
[Name] Froome  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Storer Esq. Account filed by Thomas Anderson as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 36
1772
[Name] Froome  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Storer Esq. Account filed by Thomas Anderson as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 18
1773
[Name] Froome  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Storer Esq. Account filed by Julines Herring Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 204
1774
[Name] Froome  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Anthony Morris Storer Esq. Account filed by Julines Herring Esq as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 224
1775
[Name] Froome  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Anthony Morris Storer Esq. Account filed by Julines Herring as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 22
1778
[Name] Froome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Anthony Storer Esquire, Hugh White attorney. Account filed by James Ruecastle, late overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 125-126
1779
[Name] Froome  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Anthony Storer Esq. Account filed by William Lyon as overseer. Hugh White as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 154-55
1782
[Name] Froom Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of Anthony Storer Esquire. Account filed by William Richardson as overseer. Accounts filed for The year 1782 to 31/07/1782.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 188
1784
[Name] Froome  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Anthony Storer Esq. Account filed by Julines Herring as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 176
1787
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum shippped to England  
 

Property of Anthony Morris Storer; account filed by Julines Hering, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 104
1787
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum shippped on consignment to Long Drake and Long  
 

Property of Anthony Morris Storer; account filed by Julines Hering, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 105
1787
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Anthony Morris Storer Esquire; account filed by Julius Hering one of his attornies.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 213-214
1788
[Name] Froome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Anthony Morris Storer Esquire. Account filed by Julines Hering his attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 103 [f.52]
1789
[Name] Froome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Anthony Morris Storer Esquire. Account filed by Julines Hering his attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 154
1790
[Name] Froome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Anthony Morris Storer Esquire. Account filed by Justines [Julines ?] Hering his attorney. Accounts filed for 01/01/1790 to 31/07/1790.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 219 [f.110]
1791
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Anthony Storer Esquire. Account filed by the attorney to Anthony Morris Storer Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 275 [f.132]
1792
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Anthony Morris Storer Esquire. Account filed by the attorney to Anthony Morris Storer Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 428
1793
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Anthony Morris Storer Esquire. Account filed by Julines Hering his attorney. Accounts filed for 01/01/1793 to 31/07/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 306
1794
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Anthony Morris Storer Esq. Account filed by Julines Hering his attorney for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/07/1794. Frome Estate and Bellisle Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 33-34
1795
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Anthony Morris Stores, Esq. Account given by Julius Herring, attorney to estate. Bellisle and Frome Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 1
1796
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Anthony Morris Storer, Esq. Account given by Julinus Herring, attorney to estate. Belleisle And Frome Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 51
1797
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Anthony Morris Storer, Esq. Account given by Samuel Jeffries, attorney to estate. Account filed by Joseph Oldfield, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 149
1798
[Name] Froome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to Anthony Morris Storer Esq under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries his attorney. Account filed by Joseph Oldfield as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 207
1799
[Name] Frome  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Westmoreland as a sugar estate with a watermill 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.
1799
[Name] Fronthill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, stock  
 

Account filed by Thomas Simpson overseer. In the possession of Thomas Smith Esquire and under the care and direction of James Hart Esquire. Fronthill Estate and Michael Settlement filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 225-226
1799
[Name] Froome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood  
 

Property of Anthony Morris Storer Esq deceased under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries attorney. Account filed by William Dunbar as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 90-91
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Frome  
 

Registered in Westmoreland in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at a vestry convened for that purpose 15/11/1799 and subsequent days. No ownership details given.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 36.
1800
[Name] Froome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pasturage, some cattle  
 

Property of Anthony Morris Stone Esq deceased under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries attorney for the executors for the estate. Account filed by William Barker as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 101
1801
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Estate of Anthony Morris Storer Esq deceased and in the possession of the Hon Peachy (?) and Beeston Long Esquires, under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries, Attorney for said Estate. Account filed by James Brodie Rose as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 223
1803
[Name] Frome Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Anthony Moris Stone Esq deceased under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries attorney to the Hon John Peachy [?] and Buston [?] Long Esq.s trustees in possession of the estate. Account filed by Peter Howden as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 86
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Froome  
[Stock] 216  
 

Registered to Anthony Gilbert Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 1020(Tot) 550(F) 470(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

First group: 829 enslaved people "In the possession of Anthony Gilbert Storer as owner" (appears to be an amalgamated group of the enslaved people on Belleisle, Carysfort, Froome and Fontabelle who were 'owned' by Storer rather than being entailed). Second group: 191 enslaved people entailed on the same estates.

 
T71/178 334-336
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)  
[Name] Froome  
[Stock] 164  
 

Registered to Anthony Gilbert Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Frome  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to heirs of Anthony G. Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 911(Tot) 485(F) 426(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

An amalgamation of enslaved people on Belleisle, Froome, Fontabelle and Carysfort estates. First group: 738 enslaved people in the possession of Joseph Stone Williams as receiver to the estate of Anthony Gilbert Storer deceased. Second group: 173 enslaved people in the possession of Joseph Stone Williams as receiver for the entailed estates of Anthony Gilbert Storer deceased.

 
T71/179 Book 27 1
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)  
[Name] Frome  
[Stock] 116  
 

Registered to heirs of Anthony G. Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Frome  
[Stock] 115  
 

Registered to heirs of Anthony G. Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot) 86(F) 91(M)  
[Name] Froome Estate  
 

In the possession of Joseph Stone Williams as receiver for the entailed estates of Anthony Gilbert Storer deceased (23 men and 24 women); Joseph Stone Williams as receiver for the estates of Anthony Gilbert Storer deceased (68 men and 62 women).

 
T71/180 Book 9 29-30
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Frome  
[Stock] 125  
 

Registered to heirs of Anthony G. Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Frome  
[Stock] 154  
 

Registered to estate of Anthony G. Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot) 86(F) 84(M)  
[Name] Froome  
 

In possession of Joseph Stone Williams as receiver for the entailed estates of Anthony Gilbert Storer deceased (20 men and 22 women). In the possession of Joseph Stone Williams as receiver for the estates of Anthony Gilbert Storer deceased (64 men and 64 women).

 
T71/181 354-357
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Frome  
[Stock] 189  
 

Registered to heirs of Anthony G. Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] Frome  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to heirs of Anthony G. Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Frome  
[Stock] 54  
 

Registered to heirs of Anthony G. Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot) 86(F) 81(M)  
[Name] Froome  
 

In possession of Joseph Stone Williams as receiver for the entailed estates of Anthony Gilbert Storer deceased (22 men and 26 women). In the possession of Joseph Stone Williams as receiver for the estates of Anthony Gilbert Storer deceased (59 men and 60 women).

 
T71/186 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Frome  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to heirs of Anthony G. Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] Froome [Frome]  
[Stock] 70  
 

Registered to heirs of Anthony G. Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot)  
[Name] Frome Estate  
 

In the possession of Ann Katherine Storer as receiver for the entailed estates of Anthony Gilbert Storer.

 
T71/188 228
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Ann Katherine Storer as receiver for the acquired estate of Anthony Gilbert Storer deceased.

 
T71/188 217
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot) 45(F) 52(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of A. K. Storer as receiver for the acquired property of the late A. G. Storer Esquire.

 
T71/188 251
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)  
[Name] Froome [sic.Frome]  
[Stock] 86  
 

Registered to heirs of Anthony G. Storer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Westmd.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.