Maxfield Estate

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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
- 1782 [EY] → Owner
1787 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Previous owner
1799 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£3,150 9S 7D

Estate Information (31)

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1787
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Hodges deceased; account filed by Samuel Stead as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 190-191
1788
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar  
 

The property of the heirs of John Hodges. Account filed by John Russell. Accounts filed for 1788 [exact dates unclear].

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 132-133 f.67
1789
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of John Hodges deceased. Account filed by David Spencer as overseer. Accounts filed for To August 1789 [dates unclear].

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 136
1790
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of John Hodges deceased. Account filed by David Spencer as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 424
1790
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by David Spencer as overseer. Accounts filed for For the year 1790 to 06/07/1791.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 90
1799
[Name] Maxfield  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawny as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and a windmill 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1799
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper, metal, stock  
 

Account filed by John Elliot overseer. The property of John and Robert Franklin Hodges Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 78
1800
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John and Robert Franklin Hodges Esquires. Account filed by John Cunningham Esq one of the Trustees for Maxfield Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 69-70
1801
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John and Robert Franklin Hodges. Account filed by Andrew Buchanan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 171
1803
[Name] Manfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John [&?] Robert Hodges. Account filed by Andrew Buckland as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 23
1807
[Name] Maxfield  
[Crop] sugar, rum and stock  
 

Account filed by John Caerar as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 37
1808
[Name] Maxfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In the possession of James and Samuel Cunningham as receivers. Account filed by John Crerar as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 212
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield and the Corner  
[Stock] 177  
 

Registered to Hon. James and George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield & The Corner  
[Stock] 157  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot) 73(F) 81(M)  
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
 

In the possession of George Cunningham as Owner on Maxfield Estatee.

 
T71/224 395-400
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
 

In the possession of George Cunningham as Owner on Maxfield Estate. 27 enslaved people acquired "by purchase from Robert Butler Attorney to George Butler and Lawfully imported into Montego Bay Jamaica 22nd February 1819 from the port of Nassau, Island of New Providence by Licence dated 10th of same month in the Brig called the Juno, John Miller Master".

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield  
[Stock] 178  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
 

In the possession of John Cleghorn as Attorney to George Cunningham the Owner on Maxfield Esate.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield  
[Stock] 181  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield  
[Stock] 170  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
 

In the possession of John Cleghorn as Attorney to George Cunningham the owner.

 
T71/234 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield  
[Stock] 64  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield  
[Stock] 151  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
 

In the possession of John Cleghorn as Attorney to George Cunningham, the Owner on Maxfield Estate.

 
T81/236 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield  
[Stock] 72  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield  
[Stock] 154  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield  
[Stock] 50  
 

Registered to George Cunningham.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)  
[Name] Maxfield Estate  
 

In the possession of Matthew Mitchell as Attorney for George Cunningham the Proprietor of Maxfield Estate.

 
T71/242 123