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1768 [SY] - 1772 [LA] → Owner
Sir Alexander Grant, 5th Bt. acquired the Berwick estate in 1768. It was valued at £14,286 with the price commuted from Jamaica local currency to English sterling. The acreage of the estate was 2,161 however there is no record of the number of enslaved people working on the estate. These figures were culled by David Hancock from the Deed Book, Old Series, Vols. 146-256 passim in the Island Record Office, Spanishtown, Jamaica. When Grant died in 1772 his probate inventory recorded that the number of enslaved working on the property was 141 and the value of the property was £9,244. Hancock has noted that this figure probably did not include land values. |
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1772 [EA] - 1772 [LA] → Not known
Filed Crop Accounts 1772. |
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1799 [EA] - 1825 [EY] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1820 [EA] - → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
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1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£1,808 8S 0D
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A description of conditions in Berwick was given by Jospeh Sturge, the abolitionist campaigner in 1837 when it was under the ownership of Sir Alexander Cray Grant, 8th Bt. It read 'Berwick Estate. — Sir A. C, Grant, Proprietor. — Three apprentices state, that Dr. Palmer came four times on the estate, but only punished the people twice by taking away sixteen hours of their time. The owner said that would not do for him, and complained to the Governor, who ordered Mr. Cooper to take charge of Berwick. When he paid his first visit, the owner complained to him that the people had been idle during Dr. Pjllmiru's time, for which Cooper sentenced them to pay four days. The people refused, and went to Palmer, who told them to do every thing that Cooper said. The latter came with the police and flogged one man, and sent a woman to the treadmill for fourteen days. Dr. Palmer always told them to work well, and said if they did not he would punish them. He did not flog them like the other Magistrates, nor take away their Saturdays to give to the property. They do work well, but their overseer is never satisfied, and is continually complaining to get their time taken away, though there is not a cane piece on the estate that is not in good order. Since August, 1834, they have never had a field cook, till two months ago. They get no salt fish, except in crop. In crop, the people give up their half Fridays, and receive for their extra work, the mill people two shillings and sixpence, the boiler-men three shillings and four pence, and the cattle boys one shilling and eleven pence a week. They work about sixteen hours a day. The watchman for the negro grounds was taken away about a year before August, 1834, and they have thrown up their grounds on account of the trespass of cattle. They have now only little gardens about their houses. The hospital is surrounded by a fence like a jail, which is kept locked all day. The pregnant women are not allowed to sit down, but go home from the field and are delivered the same night. They are allowed about four weeks afterwards.' |
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Joseph Sturge, The West Indies in 1837 : being the journal of a visit to Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbados, and Jamaica; undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining the actual condition of the negro population of those islands, (London, Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1838), Appendix XLI. |
Estate Information (54) |
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1766
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by Alexander Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 76
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1767
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by Alexander Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 76
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1768
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by Alexander Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 140
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1768
[Size] 2161
David Hancock, Citizens of the world: London merchants and the integration of the British Atlantic community, 1735-1785, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995), p.410.
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1769
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by John Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 199
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1770
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by John Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 23
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1771
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by John Lewis Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 81
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1771
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by John McColl.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 145
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1772
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John Allen.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 151
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1773
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 151
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1774
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 145
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1775
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 145
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1776
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 146
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1778
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 150
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1779
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by Lachlan Grant as overseer on Dalvey.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 146
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1786
[Name] Berwick Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant, Bart deceased; account filed by Robert Thombs.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 87
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1789
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. deceased. Account filed by David Davies clerk to the plantation.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 387-388
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1790
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, old copper and pewter Under the care and direction of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. Account filed by William Smith.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 397 [f.198]
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1791
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar, rum Under the care and direction of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. Account filed by William Smith.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 285-286
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1792
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar, rum Under the care and direction of Sir Alex. Grant Bart. Account filed by John Poor.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 185 [f.93]
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1793
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar, rum Not clear if this is for 1792 or 1793. Belonging to the heirs of Sir Alex. r Grant Bart deceased. Account filed by John Williams as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 48
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1794
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Williams.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 216
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1795
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of Sir Alex. r Grant Bart deceased in the possession of his representatives. Account filed by Robert Leith as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 195-196
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1796
[Name] Berwick Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant, Bt. Account filed by John Montgomery, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Berwick Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant, Bt. Account given by Robert Ross and David Shaw, attornies. Account filed by John Montgomery, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 138
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1798
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by John Montgomery overseer. Under the care of Robert Rols and David Shaw Esq attornies. Property of the Heairs of the late Sir Alex" Grant.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 19
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1798
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale 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.
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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)
[Name] Berwick Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Sir Alexander Grant with 150 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. 48.
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1799
[Name] Berwick Estate
Property of the heirs of Sir Alexander [ . . . ] Bart deceased. Account filed by Wm Johnston as overseer for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 175-176
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1800
[Name] Berwick Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Bart. Account filed by William Johnston.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 78
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1801
[Name] Berwick Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. Account filed by Andrew Skeene.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 216
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1803
[Name] Berwick Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Bart deceased. Account filed by John Montgomery for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 157
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1804
[Name] Berwick Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum, Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant. Account filed in the name of John Montgomery (status not given).
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 183
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1807
[Name] Berwick
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Sir. Alex Grant Bart. Account filed by George Nisbitt as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 54
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 10 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.
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.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 115 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1816
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 121 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 135 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 333(Tot) 165(F) 168(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Francis Graham as attorney to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Assumed to be both Rio Magno and Rio Magno Pen.
T71/25 330-340
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 5 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 11 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 334(Tot) 170(F) 164(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of the honourable William Shand as attorney of Sir Alexander Grant Baronet.
T71/26 373-374
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 131 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 138 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot) 147(F) 139(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Laing as attorney to Alexander Grant Baronet.
T71/27 203-205
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 201(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 138 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot) 128(F) 141(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Laing as attorney for Sir Alexander Cray Grant Baronet Heir at Law of Sir Alexander Grant Baronet Dec.
T71/28 323-324
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 15 Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Registered in two groups: Joseph Gordon esq as attorney for Sir Alexander Grant Baronet (158 enslaved people); Joseph Gordon esq as attorney to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet (106 enslaved people).
T71/29-31 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 6 Registered to Sir Alexander C. Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 7 Registered to Sir A. C. Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot) 119(F) 122(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Joseph Gordon as attorney of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. Registered in two groups: one of 153 enslaved people (80 men and 73 women) and the other of 88 enslaved people (42 men and 46 women).
T71/32 141-142
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)
[Name] Berwick [Stock] 2 Registered to Sir A. C. Grant, Baronet.
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.
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1839
[Name] Berwick
[Size] 1700 Registered to Sir Alexander Cray Grant.
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.
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1774 - 1832
Head driver on Great Valley estate in Hanover, Jamaica. Executed by hanging following Sam Sharpe's War.
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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Berwick Estate [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2404 [accessed 19th April 2024].
