Nutfield 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
- 1781 [EY] → Owner
1781 [SY] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1772 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

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£4,692 15S 10D

Estate Information (41)

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1772
[Name] Nutfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of Samuel Adams Esq. deceased. Produce disposed of by Daniel Shea as one of the executors to the estate. Samuel Adams died 21 July 1772.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 55-6
1773
[Name] Nutfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of Samuel Adams Esq. deceased. Produce disposed of by Daniel Shea as one of the executors to the estate. Samuel Adams died 21 July 1772.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 55-6
1774
[Name] Nutfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of Samuel Adams Esq. deceased. Produce disposed of by Daniel Shea as one of the executors to the estate. Samuel Adams died 21 July 1772.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 55-6
1775
[Name] Nutfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of Samuel Adams Esq. deceased. Produce disposed of by Daniel Shea as one of the executors to the estate. Samuel Adams died 21 July 1772.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 55-6
1776
[Name] Nutfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of Samuel Adams Esq. deceased. Produce disposed of by Daniel Shea as one of the executors to the estate. Samuel Adams died 21 July 1772.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 55-6
1782
[Name] Nutfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Richard Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 146
1783
[Name] Nutfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Richard Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 151
1784
[Name] Nutfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the estate of John Ellis Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richard Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 167-8
1787
[Name] Nutfield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Ellis Esq; account filed by Richard Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 109
1787
[Name] Nutfiled Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Ellis Esq; account filed by Richard Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 92
1788
[Name] Nutfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Ellis Esquire. Account filed by Richard Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 43 [f.22]
1789
[Name] Nutfield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper and brass  
 

The property of John Ellis Esquire. Account filed by Henry Hough. Accounts filed for 27/02 1789 to 31/12/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 275-276 f.138
1790
[Name] Nutfield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of John Ellis Esquire. Account filed by Henry Hough.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 265 and 269 [f.134]
1791
[Name] Nutfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Ellis Esquire. Account filed by Henry Hough.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 380-383
1792
[Name] Nutfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The properties of John Ellis Esquire. Account filed by Henry Hough as attorney. Greencastle, Nutfield and Newry Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 133-134
1793
[Name] Nutfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Henry Hough as attorney for his estates

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 101
1794
[Name] Nutfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Henry Hough as attorney for his estates. Green Castle, Nutfield and Newry estates and Fort George Penn filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 157
1795
[Name] Nutfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Henry Hough as attorney for the estates. Green Castle, Nutfield and Newry estates, Fort George Penn, Montpelier Old Works and Montpelier New Works, Whydalis Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 257-258
1796
[Name] Nutfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cows, calves, heifers, mules  
 

Belonging to John Ellis Esq. Account given by Henry Hough, attorney. Green Castle, Nutfield and Newry Estates and Fort George Pen filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1798
[Name] Nuffield  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1807
[Name] Nutfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Alexander McLachlan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 79
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 339(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 314  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 883(Tot) 461(F) 472(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Thomas P Rodgers, attorney to John Ellis. Assumed to be Greencastle, Newry and Nutfield Estates.

 
T 71/33 925-950
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 338(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 326  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 336(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 48  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 336(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 288  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 860(Tot) 451(F) 409(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Thomas P Rogers, attorney to John Ellis. Assumed to be Greencastle, Newry and Nutfield Estates.

 
T 71/34 204-206
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 342(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 258  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 334(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 274  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 835(Tot) 435(F) 400(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Isaac Higgins and James Lawes, attornies to John Ellis, owner. Assumed to be Greencastle, Newry and Nutfield Estates.

 
T 71/35 225-228
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 328(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 253  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 321(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 258  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 325(Tot) 171(F) 154(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Lawes, attorney to John Ellis.

 
T 71/36 142-144
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 322(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 37  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 317(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 216  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 311(Tot) 161(F) 150(M)  
[Name] Nutfield Estate  
 

James Lawes, attorney to John Ellis.

 
T 71/37 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 298(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 46  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 285(Tot)  
[Name] Nutfield  
[Stock] 51  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 283(Tot) 152(F) 131(M)  
[Name] Nutfield Estate  
 

John Blair, attorney of John Ellis [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/41 25-26
1839
[Name] Nutfield  
[Size] 1652  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.