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Benfield

Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale

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
1758 [EA] - → Owner
Benjamin Hume

In the hands of sequestrators

1758 [EA] - 1761 [LA] → Sequestrator
Charles Seymour
1758 [EA] - 1761 [LA] → Sequestrator
Thomas Hibbert senior
1778 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Owner
Bryan Edwards
1778 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Attorney
Zachary Bayly Edwards

Estate Information (6)

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1758
[Name] Benfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed for 3 June 1758 to 31 Dec 1758. Estate of Benjamin Hume Esquire, come to the hands of Thomas Hibbert and Charles Seymour, sequestrators to the said estate. Account filed by Charles Seymour, sequestrator. Dove Hall and Benfield Estates filed together with no differentiation of crops.

 
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1759
[Name] Benfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, sheep, cattle  
 

Estates of Benjamin Hume Esquire, come to the hands of Thomas Hibbert and Charles Seymour, sequestrators. Dove Hall and Benfield Estates filed together with no differentiation of crops.

 
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1760
[Name] Benfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Estate of Benjamin Hume Esquire, come to the hands of Thomas Hibbert and Charles Seymour, sequestrators to the said estate. Account filed by Thomas Hibbert, sequestrator. Dove Hall and Benfield Estates filed together. Crops filed together.

 
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1761
[Name] Benfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estate of Benjamin Hume Esquire, come to the hands of Thomas Hibbert and Charles Seymour, sequestrators. Account filed by Thomas Hibbert, sequestrators. Dove Hall and Benfield Estates filed together.

 
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1778
[Name] Benfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Zachary Bayley Edwards Esq. as one of the attorneys of Bryan Edwards Esq.

 
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1780
[Name] Benfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Zachary Bayley Edwards Esq. as one of the attorneys of Bryan Edwards Esq.

 
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