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Retreat

Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
1809 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Rossiter
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
George Wright
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
Francis Meade

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-Vale 130 (Retreat)
£1,064 9S 4D

Notes

This estate was possibly formed from the land bequeathed in trust to Thomas's first wife Elizabeth Sophia by her father Charles Jones. May have been listed as part of Peartree Grove in 1799.

Estate Information (21)

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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of 1809.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_01.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot) 13(F) 20(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Rossiter as owner.

 
T71/25 551
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 56(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot) 12(F) 22(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Rofsiter as owner.

 
T71/26 323
1820
[Name] Retreat  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter. No numbers of stock or enslaved people, page torn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 55(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 110  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot) 20(F) 27(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Rofsiter as owner.

 
T71/27 308-309
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot) 29(F) 39(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Wright and Francis Meade as attornies to Thomas Rofsitter esq.

 
T71/28 143-144
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 57(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Wright Esquire as attorney to Thomas Rossiter.

 
T71/31 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Wright Esquire as attorney to Thomas Rossiter Esquire.

 
T71/32 323
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 56(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIV.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1839
[Name] Retreat  
[Size] 125  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thosvale.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.