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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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1820 [SY] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
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1795 [SY] - 1820 [EY] → Owner
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1775 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£4,286 19S 3D
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Located on the northeastern part of the parish of St. Thomas in the Vale, 500 feet above sea level. The works, great house and village were a compact formation at Williamsfield. Hakewill noted that the soil was poor and required the extensive use of manure. The provision grounds of the enslaved workers were noted as extensive. There are two plans of Williamsfield in the National Library of Jamaica. The first by William Smellie and George Innes puts the estate in St. Thomas in the Vale (1784) and the other by William Frazer and Alexander Rainey places the estate in St. Catherine (1790). The estate is described at length by James Hakewill in his Picturesque Tour of Jamaica published in 1825. By 1790 the estate covered 2,426 acres. In 1815 the small estate of Sandy Gut was added bring the number of acres to 2998 acres. By the early 1820s the estates had over 300 acres in cane. |
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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.111-114 |
Estate Information (50) |
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1763
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a water mill.
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
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1775
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Daniel Lascelles Esq. Account filed by John MacKay
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 47
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1776
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Daniel Lascelles Esq.of great Britain. Account filed by Hugh MacKay.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 102
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1778
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Daniel Lascelles. Account filed by John MacKay
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 104
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1779
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Daniel Lascelles. Account filed by John MacKay
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 143
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1780
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar, rum No ownership details given. Account filed by John Mackay.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 10
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1781
[Name] Williamsfield Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of Daniel Lascells (sp?) Esquire. Account filed by John Mackay.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 62
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1783
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by John MacKay
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 29
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1786
[Name] Williamsfield Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Milligan.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 155
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1786
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Edwin Lascelles Esq; account filed by John Milligan.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 146
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1787
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Edwin Lascelles Esq; account filed by John Milligan.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 85
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1788
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Edwin Lascelles Esquire. Account filed by John Milligan.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 372-373 f.196
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1789
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Edward Lascelles Esquire. Account filed by John Milligan.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 339 f.167
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1790
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle The property of Edwin Lord Harewood. Account filed by John Milligan as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 28-29 [f.9]
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1790
[Size] 2426
The map of 1790 noted the acreage and the ownership of the estate as Edward Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood. |
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1791
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Edwin Lord Harewood. Account filed by John Milligan as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 326-327 [f.158]
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1792
[Name] Williamfield
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Edwin Lord Harwood. Account filed by John Milligan as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 171-172
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1793
[Name] Williamsfield Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of the Rt Hon Edwin Lord HareWood. Account filed by John Killigan.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 24-25
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1794
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Property of the Hon Edwin Lord HareWood. Account filed by John Milligan for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 217
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1795
[Name] Williamsfield Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, old steers, bull Belonging to the heirs of the Rt Hon Lord Harewood, deceased. Account filed by John Milligan.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 39
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1796
[Name] Williamsfield Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers and cows Belonging to the RT Hon Edward Lord Harewood. Account filed by John Milligan.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Williamsfield Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, fat cattle. Belonging to the Rt Hon Edward Lord Harewood. Account filed by John Milligan, status not given.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 131
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1798
[Name] Williamsfield Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Property of Edward Lord Harewood of Great Britain. Account filed by Samuel Dennett.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 88
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1798
[Name] Williamsfield
Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale as a sugar estate with a watermill 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.
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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Lord Harewood with 274 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799.
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 48.
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1799
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Alexander Fraser overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 183-184
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1800
[Name] Williamsfield Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Milne head book keeper for the period 01/01/1800 to 31/12/1800.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 72
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1801
[Name] Williamsfield Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum (?) Account filed by George French, Clerk to Lewis Cuthbert Esq. Affidavit made in consequence by George French of the death of Mr Alexander Fraser who was overseer on said estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 201-202
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1807
[Name] Williamsfield
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the Right Honourable Edward Lord Harewood. Account filed by George Jeffrey Johnson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 118
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 43 Registered to Lord Harewood.
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.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 194 Registered to Lord Harewood.
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.
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1816
[Number of enslaved people] 331(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 253 Registered to Lord Harewood.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 330(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 239 Registered to Lord Harewood.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 326(Tot) 176(F) 151(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of George Cuthbert and Francis Graham as attorneys to the Right Honourable Edward Lascelles Earl of Harewood.
T71/25 320-329
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 321(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 36 Registered to Lord Harewood.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 322(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 48 Registered to Lord Harewood.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 321(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of George Cuthbert and George William Hamilton as agents to Right Honourable the Earl of Harewood.
T71/26 185-186
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 317(Tot)
[Name] Williamsifeld [Stock] 253 Registered to Lord Harewood.
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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 299(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 258 Registered to Lord Harewood.
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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 303(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of George Cuthbert and George W Hamilton as agents to the Right Honourable the Earl of Harewood.
T71/27 153-154
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 324(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 298 Registered to Earl of Harewood.
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.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 293(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of George Cuthbert and George William Hamilton as attornies to the Right Honourable Earl of Harewood.
T71/28 255-256
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 294(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 39 Registered to Earl of Harewood.
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.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of George Cuthbert and George William Hamilton as attornies to the Rt Hon. Earl of Harewood.
T71/30 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 30 Registered to Earl of Harewood.
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.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 17 Registered to Earl Harewood.
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.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of George Cuthbert and George William Hamilton as attornies to the Right Honourable Earl of Harewood.
T71/32 [unpaginated]
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of The Hon. Geo Cuthbert and Geo Wm Hamilton as attornies to the Earl of Harewood.
T71/32 155
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot)
[Name] Williamsfield [Stock] 16 Registered to Earl Harewood.
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.
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1839
[Name] Williamsfield
[Size] 2893 Registered to Earl Harewood.
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.
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Associated documents (1) |
1785 - 1854
Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.
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:
'Williamsfield Estate [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2538 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
