UCL

Essex Plantation

Jamaica | St Mary

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
1817 [EA] - 1834 [EY] → Owner
John Wade
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Joint owner
Dr James McIntyre
1834 [EA] - → Executor
Henry Swanson
1834 [EA] - → Executor
Richard Thomas
1834 [EA] - → Executor
James Jackson Sewell

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St Mary 49 (Essex Plantation)
£1,287 18S 10D

Notes

John Wade owned enslaved people in St Mary from at least 1817 but it's not clear he owned the land of Essex plantation at this point. In the early 1820s, John Wade and James McIntyre bought over 130 enslaved people, 50 from Thomas McLagan on Upton estate and the rest from St Andrew. They divided their joint ownership by 1826 and the enslaved people were registered to McIntyre's estate (Harmony Hall) and Wade's estate (Essex) separately. The first date at which Essex is named with a large number of enslaved people to John Wade is the almanac of 1826.

Estate Information (16)

What is this?

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 13(Tot) 4(F) 9(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Wade, owner.

 
T 71/33 251-252
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot) 5(F) 15(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Wade, owner [increase by purchase].

 
T 71/34 298-298v
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot) 69(F) 77(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Wade and James McIntyre, owners [increase by purchase; 50 people registered in 1817 by Thomas McLagan, owner, the rest registered in 1817 in St Andrew by Caleb M. Littlejohn as attorney to David and Ann C. Littlejohn]. Assumed to be Essex and Harmony Hall and to exclude the enslaved people owned by each of them individually.

 
T 71/34 313v-316
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Registered to Wade and McIntyre. Assumed to be Essex and Harmony Hall.

 
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] 148(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Registered to Wade and McIntyre. Assumed to be Essex and Harmony Hall.

 
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] 20(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to John Wade.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot) 6(F) 14(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Wade, owner.

 
T 71/35 473
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot) 70(F) 74(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Wade and James McIntyre, owners. Assumed to be Essex and Harmony Hall and to exclude the enslaved people on each estate owned by them individually.

 
T 71/35 473-475
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Registered to Wade and McIntyre. Assumed to be Essex and Harmony Hall.

 
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] 93(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
[Stock] 28  
 

Registered to John Wade.

 
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] 84(Tot) 40(F) 44(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Wade, owner [registered in 1823 by John Wade and James McIntyre as joint owners].

 
T 71/36 501
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot) 38(F) 36(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Wade, owner [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/40 [unpaginated]
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
[Stock] 44  
 

Registered to John Wade.

 
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] 75(Tot)  
[Name] Essex  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to John Wade.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot) 38(F) 37(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Wade, owner.

 
T 71/42 263
1839
[Name] Essex  
[Size] 186  
 

Registered to estate of John Wade.

 
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.