Rentcomb

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  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1778 [EA] - 1779 [LA] → Previous owner
1799 [EA] - → Owner
1809 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - → Owner
1825 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
1834 [EA] - → Trustee
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
1839 [EA] - → Not known

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£759 19S 11D

Estate Information (23)

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1778
[Name] Rent Comb  
[Crop] sugar, rum, plantains  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Harris Lawrence Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Poe as overseer. This entry covers August - December 1778.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 84
1778
[Name] Rent Comb  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Harris Lawrence Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Poe as overseer, Poe having replaced Robert Bennett as overseer. This entry covers January - August 1778.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 84
1779
[Name] Rent Comb  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Harris Lawrence Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Poe as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 84
1782
[Name] Rentcombe Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, plantain, peas and beans  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Alexander Calden, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 147
1798
[Name] Rentcome  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale as a sugar estate with a watermill 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot)  
[Name] Kentcombe [sic]  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Wm. Powell Bennett with 95 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 47.
1807
[Name] Rentcomb  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Brands as late overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 101
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Reutcombe  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to John Sibbitt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of 1809.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] Rentcomb  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to John Sibbit.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Rentcomb  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to John Sibbit.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_01.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot) 23(F) 14(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Sibbit as owner.

 
T71/25 597
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Rentcomb  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to John Sibbit.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot)  
[Name] Rentcomb  
 

Registered to John Sibbit.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Name] Rentcomb  
 

Registered to John Sibbit. No numbers of stock or enslaved people, page torn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Sibbet as owner.

 
T71/26 390
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
[Name] Rentcomb  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to James Smith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Charles Smith as attorney of James Smith the owner. 34 enslaved people registered by John Sibbet as owner in 1820; 13 enslaved people registered by James Smith as owner in St Thomas-in-the-Vale in 1820; 14 enslaved people transferred from St Ann, St Andrew and Kingston where they were registered by James Smith in 1820; some other purchases.

 
T71/27 353
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot)  
[Name] Rentcomb  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to John Smith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Smith as owner. All purchased since 1823 but no details on vendor.

 
T71/28 45
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Smith as owner.

 
T71/31 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Smith as owner.

 
T71/32 299
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
[Name] Rentcomb  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to John Smith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIV.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1839
[Name] Rentcomb  
[Size] 540  
 

Registered to Isaac Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thosvale.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.