Associated People (4) |
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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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- 1835 [LA] → Owner
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- 1804 [LA] → Previous owner
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- 1815 [EY] → Owner
Administration of Robert McGhie's will was granted in 1817 but he appears to have died in 1815. |
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1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£3,881 1S 7D
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Notes |
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Higman puts two estates together - Hampstead and Retreat. They were both located in the upper Martha Brae River and were owned by John H. Deffell at emancipation. Hampstead had a cattle mill and Retreat had a water mill. |
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B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), pp.139 |
Estate Information (27) |
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1786
[Name] Hampstead Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Young.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 100
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1787
[Name] Hampstead Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Young, planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 128
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1787
[Name] Hampstead
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Young planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 86-87 f.44
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1788
[Name] Hampstead
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by John Young planter. Accounts filed for 1788 [exact dates unclear].
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 167-168 f.84
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1789
[Name] Hampstead Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Account filed by John Young planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 175-176 [f.89]
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1790
[Name] Hampstead Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Andrew Clark planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 277-278 [f.133]
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1791
[Name] Hampstead Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William Norris.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 421 [f.200]
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1799
[Name] Hampstead
[Crop] Sugar Plotted In Trelawny as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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.
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1804
[Name] Hamstead Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Samuel Vaughan, Esq, deceased. Account given in the name of David Bernard, Esq, attorney to William Vaughan, Esq, only acting attorney to said estate.From June in the hands of Ralph Montague, Esq, attorney to said estate. Account filed by Walter Patrick, overseer to said estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 172
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead [Stock] 191 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.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] 259(Tot) 111(F) 128(M)
[Name] Hampstead Estate In the possession of William Fairclough as Receiver.
T71/225 751-762
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead [Stock] 204 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.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] 250(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.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] 247(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead Estate In the possession of Robert H Scott as Receiver. Enrolled 28th June 1817 as in possession of William Fairclough Esquire the then Receiver.
T71/231 [unpaginated]
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead [Stock] 210 Registered to James McDonald.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.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] 224(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead [Stock] 223 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.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] 220(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead Estate In the possession of Robert H Scott as Receiver in Chancery.
T71/233 [Unpaginated]
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead [Stock] 226 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.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] Hampstead [Stock] 232 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.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] Hampstead Estate In the possession of Robert Haldane Scott as Receiver appointed by the Honorable Court of Chancery.
T71/235 [unpaginated]
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie. Page faded, number of stock 99?
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.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] 217(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead [Stock] 236 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.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] 219(Tot) 108(F) 111(M)
[Name] Hampstead Estate In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr and James MacDonald, as Receivers for Hampstead Estate.
T71/239 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.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] 213(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead [Stock] 201 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.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] 211(Tot)
[Name] Hampstead Estate In the possession of William S. Grignon and James McDonald as attornies for Hampstead Estate.
T71/242 152
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] Registered to John H. Deffell.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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:
'Hampstead [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2420 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
