Brother's Retreat

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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
1809 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Not known
1815 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Receiver
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Receiver
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£944 14S 7D

Estate Information (21)

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1798
[Name] Brothers-Retreat  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Ann 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.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to William West.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Ann.htm. The 1811 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to William West.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1810, hence the earlier transcription date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to William West.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15ann.htm. The 1816 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1815, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
[Stock] 37  
 

Registered to William Hind, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15ann.htm. The 1816 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1815, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to William West.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_02.htm. The 1817 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1816, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
[Stock] 39  
 

Registered to William Hind, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_02.htm. The 1817 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1816, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 13(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to William West.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al06.htm. The 1818 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1817, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
[Stock] 10  
 

No ownership details given.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al06.htm. The 1818 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1817, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot) 40(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Stevenson as receiver for Brother's Retreat estate.

 
T 71/43 162-164
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 11(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to William West.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot)  
[Name] Brothers' Retreat  
[Stock] 10  
 

No ownership details.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot) 39(F) 27(M)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
 

In the possession of Alexander Stevenson as receiver for Brother's Retreat.

 
T 71/44 596
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot)  
[Name] Brothers' Retreat  
[Stock] 10  
 

No ownership details.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to William Hind, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat Plantation  
 

In the possession of Alexander Stevenson as receiver for Brother's Retreat Plantation.

 
T 71/45 107-108
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot)  
[Name] Brothers Retreat  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to William Hind, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat  
 

No ownership details.

 
Jamaica Alamanc (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot)  
[Name] Brother's Retreat Plantation  
 

In the possession of William Oldater [= Oldaker] as receiver for Brother's Retreat Plantation.

 
T 71/46 97-98
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Sarah Crasser as owner [enslaved people purchased out of the Court of Chancery].

 
T 71/47 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot) 33(F) 19(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Sarah Crasser as owner.

 
T 71/49 180