UCL

Castle Gordon

Jamaica | St Mary

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1794 [EA] - → Overseer
David Thomson
1795 [EA] - → Not known
William Thomson

Filed Accounts Produce. Employed as a carpenter on the estate?

1800 [EA] - → Overseer
John Anson
1801 [EA] - → Overseer
John Thomas

Estate Information (4)

What is this?

1794
[Name] Castle Gordon  
[Crop] lime, jobbing, hire of enslaved people, logwood, old iron, rents, plantains, pasturage, horses  
 

Account filed by David Thomson as overseer for the period 23/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 56-57
1795
[Name] Castle Gordon  
[Crop] lime, jobbing, hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by William Thomson carpenter for the period 01/01/1795 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 217-218
1800
[Name] Castle Gordon  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, white lime  
 

Account filed by John Anson as overseer. Wentworth Castle and Castle Gordon plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 161-162
1801
[Name] Castle Gordon Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by John Thomas as overseer. Wentworth Castle Estate and Castle Gordon Plantation filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 194