UCL

urban (Kingston)

Jamaica | Kingston

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
Thomas Higson
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
Mary Eliz Justine Higson (née Delafitte)
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Stewart West senior
1826 [EA] - → Agent
Stewart West junior
1834 [EA] - → Owner
Stewart West junior

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica Kingston 2129
£1,294 7S 10D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot) 25(F) 40(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Higson as owner.

 
T71/76 669
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot) 29(F) 42(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Higson in right of his wife as owners. Decrease 1 male sold, 1 male condemned and executed.

 
T71/83 1
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot) 23(F) 22(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Stewart West as owner. Purchased from the trustees of Thomas Higson of Windor Farm Penn.

 
T71/95 48
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 56(Tot) 28(F) 28(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Stewart West junior as agent to Stewart West senior. Increase partly by removing registration from St Thomas in the East

 
T71/103 36
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 56(Tot) 15(F) 31(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Stewart West as owner. Decrease 2 females by manumission.

 
T71/111 38
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 56(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Stewart West as owner.

 
T71/118 166