Lewisburgh Estate

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Associated People (12)

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
1785 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner

NB the entries for 'James Lewis senior' between 1817 and 1829 definitely refer to this man, whose will 'of Clifton' was proved in 1822; the entries for 'James Lewis sen. between 1788 and 1791 indicates the existence of a third, earlier generation.

1788 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other

Owner of enslaved people in his own right, settled on the estate but not part of his father's bequest.

1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
1823 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (2)

£3,757 13S 3D
£590 13S 10D

Notes

Lewisburgh included two distinct groups of enslaved people: those owned by James Lewis junior since at least 1817 (between 30-40 people) and those owned as part of the estate by James Lewis senior and bequeathed to James Lewis junior c. 1822 (between 220 and 240 people).


Estate Information (46)

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1785
[Name] Lewisburg Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of James Lewis Esq; account filed by Donald McBean, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 79
1786
[Name] Lewisburgh Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of James Lewis Esq; account filed by Donald McBean, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 116
1787
[Name] Lewisburg Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by David Robertson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 96
1787
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to James Lewis Esq; account filed by David Robertson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 223
1788
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of James Lewis Senior Esquire. Account filed by David Robertson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 338-339 f.179
1789
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by David Robertson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 435 f.215
1790
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to James Lewis Senior. Account filed by David Robertson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 300
1791
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of James Lewis Sen.r Esquire. Account filed by David Robertson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 374
1792
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by David Robertson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 91
1793
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by David Robertson as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 40
1794
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of James Lewis Esq. Account filed by David Robertson as overseer for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 27
1795
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cow  
 

Belonging to James Lewis, Esq. Account filed by David Robertson, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 26
1796
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cows  
 

Account filed by David Robertson, overseer.

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

Property of James Lewis Esq. Account filed by David Robertson as overseer for the period 01/01/1797 to 31/12/1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 1-2
1798
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by George Jeffret Johnson. Estate belonging to James Lewis Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 43
1798
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary 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
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by George.(?).Johnson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 190
1803
[Name] Lewisburg Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Account given in the name of Alexander Shaw, under whose direction the estate is run. Account filed in the name of James Ross, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 48
1807
[Name] Lewisburg  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Belonging to James Lewis Esq. Account filed by Alexander Keith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 98
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburg  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 214  
 

Registered to James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot) 21(F) 18(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Lewis Jnr., owner.

 
T 71/33 883-884
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot) 98(F) 111(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Lewis Junr. and Francis Graham as attornies to James Lewis Snr.

 
T 71/33 832-838
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 251(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 232  
 

Registered to Hon. James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 57  
 

Registered to Honorable James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot) 19(F) 20(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Lewis Jnr., owner.

 
T 71/34 157-157v
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot) 111(F) 125(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Lewis Junr. and George William Hamilton, attornies to James Lewis Snr. [increase by births and by purchase].

 
T 71/34 157v-159v
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 278(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 210  
 

Registered to Honorable James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 212  
 

Registered to Honorable James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot) 19(F) 20(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William Rodon Rennalls, George William Hamilton, attornies to James Lewis Jnr.

 
T 71/35 391-392
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot) 111(F) 125(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William Rodon Rennalls, George William Hamilton and James Lawes, attornies to James Lewis Jnr., executor and devisee of James Lewis Snr., deceased.

 
T 71/35 388-391
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 245  
 

Registered to James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 226  
 

Registered to James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 35(Tot) 17(F) 18(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William Rodon Rennalls, George W Hamilton, attornies to James Lewis.

 
T 71/36 320
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot) 119(F) 114(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William R Rennalls, James Laing and George William Hamilton, attornies to James Lewis Jnr. executor and devisee of James Lewis Snr, deceased.

 
T 71/36 320-322
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 201  
 

Registered to James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 77  
 

Registered to James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 225  
 

Registered to James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot) 15(F) 17(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Joseph Gordon, attorney of James Lewis.

 
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 227(Tot) 115(F) 112(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Joseph Gordon, attorney of James Lewis, executor and devisee of James Lewis, deceased.

 
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 67  
 

Registered to James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 64  
 

Registered to James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot) 16(F) 18(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Joseph Gordon, attorney of James Lewis, owner.

 
T 71/41 190
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot) 124(F) 115(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Joseph Gordon, attorney of James Lewis, executor and devisee of James Lewis Snr., deceased [increase by births].

 
T 71/41 184
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Stock] 50  
 

Registered to James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Lewisburgh  
[Size] 1211  
 

Registered to James Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.