Nightingale Grove

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Associated People (13)

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
1803 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Trustee
1803 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
1815 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Executor
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Executor
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Executor
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Receiver
1823 [EA] - → Other

Guarantor for Robert Wilton as receiver deceased in his lifetime for Nightingale Grove Estate.

1826 [EA] - → Receiver
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
1832 [EA] - → Receiver
1834 [EA] - → Receiver
1834 [EA] - → Receiver

Associated Claims (2)

£1,891 1S 2D
£1,423 8S 0D

Estate Information (31)

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1799
[Name] Nightingale-Grove  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawney 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.
1803
[Name] Nightingale Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of William Wilton, deceased. Account given in the name of John Christie, trustee to said heirs. Account filed in the name of John Christie, trustee to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 56
1804
[Name] Nightingale Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account given and filed in the name of John Christie, trustee for said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 101
1807
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock and copper lead  
 

Account filed by John Christie as trustee for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 35
1808
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum and road papers  
 

Account filed by John Christie as trustee for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 196
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 177  
 

Registered to John Christie & Co.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Trel.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 125  
 

Registered to John Christie.

 
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] 51(Tot) 22(F) 29(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Edward Earl, John Gardner and George Ogilvy as Executors of John Christie Esquire deceased.

 
T71/225 567-568
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot) 36(F) 49(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Robert Wilton held as Subject to the question whether they are liable to the Trusts of an Indenture of the 25th May 1802 made between George Wilton and others and John and Alexander Christie.

 
T71/229 2579-2582
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 144  
 

Registered to Robert Wilton.

 
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] 104(Tot) 46(F) 58(M)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert Wilton as Receiver.

 
T71/229 2567-2572
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 142  
 

Registered to Robert Wilton, receiver.

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

Edward Earl, John Gairdner, and George Ogilvy as Executors of John Christie Esquire deceased.

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Robert Wilton held as Subject to the question whether they are liable to the Trusts of an Indenture of the 25th May 1802 made between George Wilton and others and John and Alexander Christie.

 
T71/231 [unpaginated]
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Robert Wilton, receiver.

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

In the possession of Robert Wilton as Receiver.

 
T71/231 [unpaginated]
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 142  
 

Registered to Robert Wilton, receiver.

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

Robert Wilton deceased held as subject to the decision whether they are liable to the Trust of an Indenture on the 25th May 1802 made between George Wilton and Others and John and Alexander Christie and which were in his possession on the 28th day of June in the year of our Lord 1823 and now in the possession of John E Nash as his surety.

 
T71/233 [Unpaginated]
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 122  
 

Registered to Robert Wilton.

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

In the possession of Robert Milton [=Wilton] deceased in his life time as Receiver ... and in possession of John E. Nash as his surety.

 
T71/233 [Unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 92  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
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] 73(Tot) 28(F) 45(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William Hugh Brown as Receiver in the Cause of Wilton & Gairdner registered in last return by John E. Nash.

 
T71/234 [unpaginated]
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 86  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
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] 97(Tot) 47(F) 50(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William H. Brown as Receiver. Decrease of 9 "withdrawn from me by order of John finlay then receiver by George W Linton attorney of Mary Witton wood" 1 "shipped off the island by sentence of a slave court".

 
T71/234 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
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] 160(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 103  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
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] 95(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller as Receiver.

 
T71/239 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
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] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
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] 69(Tot) 33(F) 36(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William Miller and John Walcott as Receivers in the cause of Witton & Gairdner.

 
T71/242 80-81
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Name] Nightingale Grove  
 

In the possession of William Miller and J. Walcott as Receivers in the Cause of Witton & Gairdner.

 
T71/242 82