Hay's Pen

Estate Details


Associated People (6)

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
- 1802 [LA] → Joint owner

Shown in his will as the joint-purchaser with John Deffell and Charles Edward Lewis some years before 1800. The estate was then assigned to John Deffell and appears only in his name but Thomas Nevill retained a one-third interest which he left in trust for his wife.

Joint owner

Shown in the will of Thomas Nevill as a co-purchaser of the estate, which was then assigned to John Deffell, in whose name it appears.

1797 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Owner
1800 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
1811 [EA] - 28/10/1847 [ED] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£592 4S 4D

Estate Information (28)

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1791
[Name] Hays Penn  
[Crop] cattle, mules  
 

Account filed by Charles Mitchell attorney to Charles Brown Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 342-343
1792
[Name] Hays Penn  
[Crop] A few cattle  
 

Account filed by Charles Mitchell attorney of Charles Brown Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 209 [f.105]
1794
[Name] Hays Penn  
[Crop] cattle  
 

Account filed by Charles Mitchell one of the attornies of Charles Brown Esq for the year ending 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 58
1797
[Name] Hayes Penn  
[Crop] cattle  
 

Property of John Deffell Esq of London, Great Britain. Account filed by John Eames as overseer on the penn. Hayes Penn and Swansea Plantation filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 11
1798
[Name] Hayes Penn  
[Crop] cattle  
 

Property of John Deffell Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by John Eames as overseer on the penn. Hayes Penn and Swansea Plantation filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 157
1799
[Name] Hayes Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, pasturage  
 

Property of John Deffell Esq of London, Great Britain. Account filed by John Eames as overseer for the period 01/01/1799 to 31/09/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 29
1799
[Name] Hays Penn  
[Crop] pasturage for cattle and mules  
 

Property of John Deffell Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by John Eames as overseer for the period 01/10/1799 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 25
1801
[Name] Hays Estate  
[Crop] Livestock (cattle)  
 

The property of John Deffell (?) of Great Britain Esq. Account filed by John D Stoute (?) as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 227
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's penn  
[Stock] 98  
 

Registered to John H. Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 28(Tot)  
[Name] Hay  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 125  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to John Henry Defell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot) 17(F) 22(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as attorney to John Henry Deffel of Great Britain.

 
T71/13 104-105
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 75  
 

Registered to Henry John Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot) 18(F) 20(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney to John Henry Deffell Esq.

 
T71/14 48
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 57  
 

Registered to Henry John Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 35(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 140  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot) 17(F) 19(M)  
[Name] Hayes Pen  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney to John Henry Deffell Esq.

 
T71/15 180
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 107  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 82  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot) 15(F) 18(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson Esq as Attorney to John Henry Deffell Esq.

 
T71/16 135
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stivdor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot) 15(F) 18(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney to John Henry Deffell Esq.

 
T71/17 75
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's pen  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 2(Tot)  
[Name] Hay's Pen  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 29(Tot) 14(F) 15(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney to John Henry Deffell Esq.

 
T71/18 279
1839
[Name] Hay's pen  
[Size] 251  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Dorothy.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.