Harker Hall 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
- 1766 [EY] → Owner
1806 [SY] - 1809 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
1766 [EA] - 1766 [LA] → Heir

Bequeathed by William Powell to his nephews Thomas, William, Henry, Jonathan and Joseph Rennalls and his great-nephew John Vezey Rennalls. Subject to numerous cash bequests and legacies.

1799 [EA] - 1806 [EY] → Owner
1807 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

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£4,320 14S 7D

Estate Information (28)

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1766
[Name] Harker's Hall  
 

Bequeathed by William Powell to his nephews Thomas, William, Henry, Jonathan and Joseph Rennalls and his great-nephew John Vezey Rennalls. Subject to numerous cash bequests and legacies.

 
PROB 11/924/107
1782
[Name] Harker Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Ahern as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 160-161 f.81
1795
[Name] Harkers Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Account given by James Flutter Stevens.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1796
[Name] Harkers Hall Estate  
 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1796
[Name] Harkers Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Account given by James Flutter Stevens.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Harkers Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, wainage  
 

Account filed by James Hutton Stevens, executor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 98
1798
[Name] Harkers-Hall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale 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.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Hacker's Hall  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to James Flutter Stevens with 148 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 49.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
 

Registered to Margaret Innes.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of 1809.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
[Stock] 94  
 

Registered to J. F. Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
[Stock] 107  
 

Registered to the estate of J. F. Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_01.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to the estate of J. F. Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot) 128(F) 137(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert William Harris as attorney to James French Flutter Stephens.

 
T71/25 353-360
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
 

Registered to J. F. Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
 

Registered to the estate of J. Flutter Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 271(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Tait as attorney to the heirs of the late James F. Stevens.

 
T71/26 409-410
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 270(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
[Stock] 157  
 

Registered to the estate of J. Flutter Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot) 128(F) 153(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Seton Lane as attorney for Francis James Flutter Steevens.

 
T71/27 198
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to the estate of James Flutter Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
[Stock] 144  
 

Registered to the estate of James Flutter Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Edward Blouston esq as one of the attornies of Francis James Flutter Stevens esq.

 
T71/28 311-328
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
 

Registered to the estate of James Flutter Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot) 128(F) 141(M)  
[Name] Harkers Hall  
 

In the possession of Edward Blouston as attorney of Francis James Flutter Steevens.

 
T71/31 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
 

Registered to F. J. F. Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
 

Registered to F. J. F. Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Harker's Hall  
 

Registered to F. J. F. Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIV.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 246(Tot) 118(F) 128(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Edward Blouston as attorney of Francis James Flutter Steevens.

 
T71/32 58
1839
[Name] Harker's Hall  
[Size] 1300  
 

Registered to F. J. F. Stevens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thosvale.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.