Associated People (11) |
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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:
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20/01/1814 [SD] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
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20/01/1814 [SD] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
This appears to have arisen under a mortgage of the estate by the Williams in 1814, with Arthur W. Shakspear and James Vanhouse as trustees. |
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1757 [EA] - → Owner
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1757 [EA] - 1762 [LA] → Previous owner
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1768 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Owner
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1804 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Tenant-for-life under the will of his father, subject to £12,000 payable to his siblings Ann Pearson nee Williams and William Williams. He appears to have mortgaged the estate c. 1814. |
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1809 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Other
The estate was registered inconsistently to William Williams alone (1809-1811) and then to William Williams and his siblings James Williams and Ann Pearson nee Williams: William Williams was entitled to a moiety of £12,000 secured on the estate under the will of his father James Williams. |
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1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Other
Ann Pearson nee Williams was entitled to a moiety of £12,000 secured on the Watermount estate under the will of her father James Williams |
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1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - → Attorney
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1839 [EA] - → Not known
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£4,206 9S 10D
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Estate Information (63) |
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1757
[Name] Watermount Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to the Estate of William Foster Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Cuniffe, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 44
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1758
[Name] Watermount Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to William Foster Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Cuniff (sp?).
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 93
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1759
[Name] Watermount Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of William Foster Esquire, deceased. Account filed by John Cuniffe, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 130
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1760
[Name] Watermount Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Estate of William Foster Esquire, deceased. Account filed by John Cunnifffe, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 154
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1762
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of William Foster deceased.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 20
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1767
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Alexander MacKay as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 61
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1768
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to James Williams Esq. Account filed by Alexander MacKay as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 124
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1769
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar and rum James Williams Esquire estate. Account filed by Alexander MacKay as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 183
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1770
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar and rum James Williams Esquire estate. Account filed by Nicholas Bartholomew French as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 19
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1771
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar and rum James Williams Esquire estate. Account filed by Nicholas Bartholomew French as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 172
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1772
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar and rum James Williams Esquire estate. Account filed by Nicholas Bartholomew French as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 34
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1773
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar and rum James Williams Esquire estate. Account filed by Nicholas Bartholomew French as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 177
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1774
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar and rum James Williams Esquire estate. Account filed by Nicholas Bartholomew French as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 255
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1775
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by John Campbell as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 290
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1779
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of James Williams Esq. Account filed by Charles Anderson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 148-9
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1780
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of James Williams Esq. Account filed by Charles Anderson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 198-99
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1781
[Name] Watermount Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Property of James Williams Esquire. Account filed by Charles Anderson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 63-64
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1782
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of James Williams Esquire. Account filed by John McKinnon.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 159-160
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1783
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of James Williams Esq. Account filed by John McKinnon.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 106
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1786
[Name] Watermount Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of James Williams Esq; account filed by Malcolm McNeill.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 185
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1786
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle The property of Ja.s Williams Esq; account filed by Malcolm MacNeill.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 170
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1787
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle The property of Ja.s Williams Esquire. Account filed by Malcolm MacNeill as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 27 f.14
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1788
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle The property of James Williams Esquire. Account filed by Malcolm MacNeill.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 403-404
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1789
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of James Williams Esquire. Account filed by Malcolm McNeill as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 318
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1790
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum Part of account filed by Alexander Clerk. Accounts filed for 22/06/1790 to 31/12/1790.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 11
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1790
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of James William Esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by Malcolm NcNeill. Accounts filed for 01/01 1790 to 22/06/1790.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 9
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1791
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Belonging to James Williams Esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by Alexander Clark as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 377-378
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1792
[Name] Watermount Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of John Williams Esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by Robert Chapman.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 175 [f.88]
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1793
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Property of James William Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by George Grant
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 27-28
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1794
[Name] Water Mount
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of James Williams Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by George Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 1-2
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1795
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of James William Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by George Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 266
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1796
[Name] Watermount Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, meagre old steers, cows Belonging to James Williams of GB, Esq. Account given by James Wilson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Watermount Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood, cattle Belonging to James Williams, Esq of GB. Account filed by James Grant, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 132
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1798
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of James William Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by James Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 93-94
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1798
[Name] Water-Mount
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St John 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.
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1799
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of James William Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by James Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 221
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1800
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Property of James William Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by James Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 113-114
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1801
[Name] Watermount Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of James Williams of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Esq. Account filed by James Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 85
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1803
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, one mule Property of James William Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by James Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 50
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1804
[Name] Watermount Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum, rent, steers, old steers and heifer Belonging to James Williams of Great Britain. Account filed in the name of James Grant (status not given).
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 143
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1807
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, house and land rental Account filed by James Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 102-103
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1808
[Name] Watermount
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, house and land rental Account filed by James Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 213-214
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 32 Registered to William Williams.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 40 Registered to William Williams.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)
[Name] Water-Mount [Stock] 148 Registered to James Williams.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15john.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot) 129(F) 96(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Phillips Utten as attorney of James Williams and Ann Williams, now Ann Pearson, wife of [blank] Pearson Esquire.
T71/19 223-230
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 145 Registered to James Williams.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 15 Registered to James Williams.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Phillips Utten as attorney of James Williams, William Williams and Ann Williams, now Ann Pearson the wife of [blank] Pearson Esquire.
T71/20 125-126
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 227(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 33 Registered to James Williams.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 115 Registered to James Williams.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
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1822
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 140 Registered to James Williams.
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Phillips Utten as Attorney of James Williams, William Williams and Ann Williams now Ann Pearson; increase of 14 recorded and decrease of 18 recorded from the previous total number of enslaved people of 225.
T71/21 202
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 159 Registered to James Williams.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24john.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 152 Registered to Williams et al. for J. P. Utten.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Phillips Utten as Attorney of James Williams, William Williams and Ann Williams now Ann Pearson.
T71/22 93
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 36 Registered to James P. Utten.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 47 Registered to James P. Utten.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29cathjohn.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Phillips Utten Esq as Attorney of James Williams, William Williams and Ann Williams now Ann Pearson.
T71/24 unpaginated
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 48 Registered to James P. Utten.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831john.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 201(Tot)
[Name] Water Mount [Stock] 34 Registered to James Williams.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32john.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of John Blair as Attorney.
T71/18 16
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1839
[Name] Water Mount
[Size] 2521
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40John.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1785 - 1854
Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Water Mount Estate [ Jamaica | St John ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2369 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
