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Arthur's Seat Mountain

Jamaica | St Ann

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
1774 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Previous owner
Captain John Strachan
1774 [EA] - 1775 [LA] → Not known
John Allan

Filed Accounts Produce. Assumed to be this John Allan.

1779 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Not known
Silas Hathaway

Filed Accounts Produce.

1780 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Not known
Joseph Tulloh

Filed Accounts Produce, tentative.

1782 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Not known
John McKay

Filed Accounts Produce.

1784 [EA] - → Not known
John Campbell

Filed Accounts Produce.

1786 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Not known
Donald Davidson

Filed Accounts Produce.

1786 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Not known
George Jones

Filed Accounts Produce.

Estate Information (12)

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1774
[Name] Arthurs Seat Mountain  
 

The property of the heirs of Captain John Strachan deceased, minors. Account filed by John Allan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 256
1775
[Name] Arthurs Seat Mountain  
[Crop] Hire of enslaved people, cedar boards and pimento  
 

The property of the heirs of Captain John Strachan deceased, minors. Account filed by John Allan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 32
1779
[Name] Arthurs Seat Mountain  
 

The property of the heirs of Captain John Strachan deceased. Notes on the entry reads 'The above mountain with the slaves and every thing thereto belonging are under lease to James McCabe' Account filed by Silas Hathaway.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 164
1780
[Name] Arthurs Seat Estate  
[Crop] Timber, pimento, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of the Heirs of John Strachan Deceased. Account filed by Joseph Tullock and Silas Hathaway.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 34-35
1781
[Name] Arthur Seat  
[Crop] Timber, pimento, jobbing gang of enslaved people, coffee  
 

Property of the Heirs of John Strachan deceased. Account filed by Joseph Tullock.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 56
1782
[Name] Arthurs Seat Estate  
[Crop] pimento, coffee, timber, rental of enslaved people  
 

Property of the Heirs of John Strachan deceased. Account filed by John McKay.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 182
1783
[Name] Arthurs Seat Mountain  
[Crop] Hire of enslaved people, cedar boards and pimento  
 

The property of the estate of John Strachan deceased. Account filed by John Mackay.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 57
1784
[Name] Arthurs Seat Mountain  
[Crop] Hire of enslaved people, cedar boards and pimento  
 

The property of the estate of John Strachan deceased. Account filed by John Campbell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 197-8
1786
[Name] Arthur Seat Pen  
[Crop] pimento, pasturage, cattle, coffee, hire of 'a pair of savages'  
 

The property of the heirs of John Strachan deceased; account filed by George Jones.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 145
1786
[Name] Arthur Seat Penn  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Property of the heirs of John Strachan deceased; account filed by Donald Davidson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 148
1787
[Name] Arthur Seat Pen  
[Crop] pimento, pasturage, hire of enslaved people  
 

The property of the heirs of John Strachan deceased; account filed by George Jones.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 195
1788
[Name] Arthur's Seat Penn  
[Crop] hire of enslaved people, pasturage, some cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of John Strachan deceased. Account filed by Donald Davison. Accounts filed for 01/01/1788 to 26/08/1788.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 386-387 f.213