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Boscabelle Pen

Jamaica | St Mary

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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] - 1786 [LA] → Joint owner
Walter Ewer I

Shown as co-owner as late as 1786, although his will was proved in 1782, and the later entries might refer to his nephew and co-heir Walter Ewer II, who is known to have been in partnership with his father John Ewer.

1774 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Joint owner
John Ewer I
1780 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Not known
James Hay

Filed Accounts Produce

1792 [EA] - → Joint owner
Mary Ewer
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Alexander Kidston
1829 [EA] - → Overseer
Alexander R. Rae
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
Hon. William Miller (attorney)

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St Mary 269 (Boscabelle Pen)
£865 10S 3D

Estate Information (18)

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1774
[Name] Boscobel  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Messrs. Walter and John Ewer. Account filed by Charles Boswell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 226
1775
[Name] Boscabel  
[Crop] Livestock and pimento  
 

Belonging to Messrs Walter and John Ewer. Account filed by Charles Boswell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 32
1780
[Name] Bascobell  
[Crop] Pimento  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by James Hay, planter. Bogg and Bascobell filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 28-29
1781
[Name] Bascobell  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, cattle  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by James Hay, planter. Bogg and Boscobell filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 40-41
1785
[Name] Boscabel  
[Crop] Livestock and pimento  
 

Account filed by James Hay. Account filed 1785.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 182
1786
[Name] Boscobell Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Walter and John Ewer of London; account filed by James Hay. Bogg Estate/Boscobell Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 135
1786
[Name] Boscobell Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, stock  
 

The properties of Walter and John Ewer Esqs; account filed by James Hay planter of the parish of St Ann. Bogg Estate and Boscobell Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 182-183
1787
[Name] Boscabell  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, pimento, stock  
 

Account filed by James Hay planter. Bogg and Boscabell filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 194
1788
[Name] Boscobell Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento. Cotton  
 

Account filed by James Hay of the parish of St Ann. Bogg estate and Boscobell pen filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 285-286
1789
[Name] Boscobell Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Hay of the parish of St Ann. Bog and Boscobell Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 292
1790
[Name] Boscobell Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Hugh Crawford. Bog and Boscobell Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 255 [f.128]
1792
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 283  
 

Owned by Walter, John and Mary Ewers. Assumed to be both Bog and Boscabell.

 
'A List of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly... transcribed from papers presented to the British Museum by Charles E. Long ref. Add. 12435' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/mstann1792.htm.
1795
[Name] Boscobell Pen  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, some cattle  
 

Bog and Boscobell Pen filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate though stock are. [folio 179 missing]

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 178-179
1796
[Name] Boserbell? Penn  
[Crop] Steers and timber  
 

Account filed by William Trotter, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 54
1797
[Name] Boscobel Estate  
[Crop] 8 mules, 16 steers  
 

No names or further information given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 177
1797
[Name] Boscobell Plantation  
[Crop] Mules, steers, cattle  
 

Owner not given. Account filed by John Trotter, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 223
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot) 16(F) 18(M)  
[Name] Boscobell  
 

Alexander Kidston, owner.

 
T 71/33 178-179
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot) 20(F) 23(M)  
[Name] Boscobell Plantation  
 

Alexander R Rae, overseer, for William Miller, attorney to R Hamilton and H Hamilton. [These latter two have yet to be identified].

 
T 71/38 [unpaginated]