Salt Spring

Estate Details


Associated People (9)

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
1825 [SY] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
- 1825 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
1774 [EA] - 1777 [EY] → Owner
1778 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Previous owner
1799 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Receiver
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Joint owner
1826 [EA] - → Other
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£3,336 10S 9D

Estate Information (32)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 62  
 

Listed as belonging to Joseph Bowen with 4 men bearing arms and 8 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 93 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1778
[Name] Salt Spring Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Joseph Bowen Esquire deceased. Account filed by Benjamin Burroughs, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 133
1779
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

The property of Joseph Bowen Esq. deceased. Account filed by Benjamin Burroughs as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 140
1780
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Belonging to the estate of Joseph Bowen Esq. deceased. Account filed by Benjamin Burroughs as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 197
1781
[Name] Saltspring Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed for 18 December 1780 to 9 June 1781. Property of the Estate of Joseph Bowen Deceased. Account filed by Simon Cunniffe, bookkeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 61
1799
[Name] Saltspring plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by George Tharp Hayle overseer. The property of John Lawrence Bowen Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 207-208
1799
[Name] Saltspring  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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.
1800
[Name] Salt Spring Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Lawrence Bowen Esq deceased. Account filed by George Sharp Hayle as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 90
1803
[Name] Salt Spring Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Lawrence Bowen Esq deceased. Account filed by George Tharp Hayle as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 82-83
1807
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Lawrence Bowen Esq. deceased and in the possession of Philip Anglin Scarlett Esq. as attorney. Account filed by George Tharp Hayle.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 117
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to John L. Bowen deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to John L. Bowen deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] Saltspring  
[Stock] 115  
 

Registered to heirs of John L. Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot) 95(F) 94(M)  
[Name] Salt Spring Estate  
 

In the possession of Joseph Bowen as receiver and owner of Salt Spring Estate.

 
T71/203 137-141
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)  
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Stock] 139  
 

Registered to Joseph Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Stock] 160  
 

Registered to heirs of J. L. Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.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] Saltspring Estate  
 

In the possession of Joseph Bowen as Receiver and Owner of Saltspring Estate.

 
T71/207 140
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Stock] 109  
 

Registered to Joseph Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot)  
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Stock] 131  
 

Registered to Joseph Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Saltspring Estate  
 

In the possession of Joseph Bowen as owner and Receiver for Saltspring Estate.

 
T71/212 28
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot)  
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Stock] 109  
 

Registered to Joseph Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Stock] 112  
 

Registered to Joseph Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Attorney of John Henry Deffell; increase owing to purchase and/or acquisition of 169 enslaved people: 125 enslaved people "were mortgaged to Mr Deffell and the property in them acquired in 1825 under a release of the equity of redemption of Joseph Bowen Esquire therein these were registered in 1817, 1820 & 1823 by that Gentleman as Receiver & Owner," 44 enslaved people purchased from John Parnther, 4 births; decrease in total owing to 8 deaths and 3 runaways.

 
T71/215 13-19
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Saltspring  
[Stock] 131  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Saltspring  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Saltspring  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Attorney of John Henry Deffell.

 
T71/217
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Stock] 149  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Saltspring  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Attorney to John Henry Deffell Esq.

 
T71/222 245
1839
[Name] Salt Spring  
[Size] 827  
 

Registered to John H. Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.