Islington Estate

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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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1784 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Previous owner
1811 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - → Agent
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

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£3,723 15S 5D

Estate Information (29)

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1784
[Name] Islington  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the late George Seaton Esq. deceased and now in the possession of the mortgagees. Account filed by Bruce Campbell, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 220
1785
[Name] Islington  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the late George Seaton Esq. deceased and now in the possession of the mortgagees. Account filed by Bruce Campbell, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 220
1786
[Name] Islington  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of George Seaton Esq deceased in the possession of the mortgagees; account filed by Bruce Campbell as planter overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 198-199
1787
[Name] Islington  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of George Seaton Esq deceased; account filed by Bruce Campbell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 96
1788
[Name] Islington Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of George Seaton Esquire deceased. Account filed by Bruce Campbell planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 273-274
1789
[Name] Islington  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of George Seaton Esquire deceased. Account filed by Bruce Campbell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 382
1798
[Name] Islington  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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.
1801
[Name] Islington Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner not recorded. Account filed by James Ferguson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 175
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Islington etc.  
[Stock] 185  
 

Registered to Hon. James Stewart.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
[Stock] 163  
 

Registered to Hon. James Stewart.

 
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] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
[Stock] 157  
 

Registered to Hon. James Stewart.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot) 122(F) 131(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Stewart, owner.

 
T 71/33 330-338
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
 

Registered to Honorable James Stewart.

 
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] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
[Stock] 167  
 

Registered to Honorable James Stewart.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot) 126(F) 132(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Stewart, owner.

 
T 71/34 233-234
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
[Stock] 190  
 

Registered to Honorable James Stewart.

 
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] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
[Stock] 190  
 

Registered to Hon. James Stewart.

 
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] 244(Tot) 120(F) 124(M)  
[Name] Islington Estate  
 

James Simpson, agent to James Stewart, owner.

 
T 71/35 427-428
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
[Stock] 167  
 

Registered to James Stewart.

 
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] 245(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
[Stock] 176  
 

Registered to estate of James Stewart.

 
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.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot) 122(F) 122(M)  
[Name] Islington Estate  
 

William Lambie and James Simpson, executors and trustees of James Stewart, deceased.

 
T 71/36 117-118
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
 

Registered to estate of James Stewart.

 
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] 239(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to estate of James Stewart.

 
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] 237(Tot) 119(F) 118(M)  
[Name] Islington Estate  
 

William Lambie and James Simpson, executors and trustees of the estate of James Stewart, deceased and agents of Robert Stewart.

 
T 71/40 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
 

Registered to heirs of James Stewart.

 
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] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
 

Registered to heirs of James Stewart.

 
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] 220(Tot)  
[Name] Islington  
 

Registered to heirs of James Stewart.

 
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] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Islington Estate  
 

John Hoseason, attorney to the heirs of the late James Stewart, deceased.

 
T 71/41 241
1839
[Name] Islington  
[Size] 700  
 

Registered to heirs of James Stewart.

 
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.