Associated People (5) |
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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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- 1785 [EY] → Owner
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1825 [SY] - 1832 [LA] → Annuitant
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1785 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Her status appears to have been somewhat uncertain: in her own will, she left Bounty Hall to her son but also commented that she had received varying payments from him over the years since her husband died in 1785, representing dower. |
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1785 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Heir
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1794 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Shown as owner from 1794, though paying his mother dower from the estate. |
Associated Claims (1) |
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£2,422 17S 4D
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'Elizabeth Sumpson, by her will, dated in April 1822, devised and bequeathed, a certain plantation, called Bounty Hall, and the negroes, sugar works, and appurtenances situated in Jamaica, and all other her estates and effects in Jamaica, England, or elsewhere, to the defendant J. Simpson and others, as trustees, upon trust, as to certain specific chattels, as therein mentioned, and out of the residue to pay and discharge her funeral and testamentary expenses and debts, and out of the surplus of the said eprsonal estate, and the rents and profits of the real estate, or by sale or mortgage of the same, to raise and pay a certain annuity to her daughter, Margery Tulloch, and subject to such trusts to stand possessed of the said estate and effects, in trust for the defendant J. Simpson for life, with remainder to her grand-children therein named, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns...' [The Law Journal Reports for the Year 1840... Vol. 18 p. 145.] |
Estate Information (40) |
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1786
[Name] Bounty Hall Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of the heirs of the late John Simpson; account filed by Henry Hough, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 85-86
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1786
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of the heirs of John Simpson Esq deceased; account filed by Henry Hough as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 179
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1788
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of the heirs of John Simpson deceased. Account filed by Charles Lewis as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 383 f.211
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1789
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to the heirs of John Simpson deceased. Account filed by Charles Lewis as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 388
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1793
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Davidson planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 413-415
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1794
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of Jn Simpson Esq. Account filed by Simon Graham planter for the year ending 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 156
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1795
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Property of John Simpson Esq. Account filed by Simon Graham planter for the year ending 31/12/1795.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 260-261
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1796
[Name] Bounty Hall Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum. Belonging to John Simpson, Esq. Account filed by Edward Layton, planter.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Edward Layton as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1797.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 55-56
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1798
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people Property of John Simpson Esq. Account filed by Robert Dixon as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 139
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1799
[Name] Bounty Hall plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Account filed by John Slack overseer. The property of John Simpson Esquire.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 152-153
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1799
[Name] Bounty-Hall
[Crop] Sugar Plotted In Trelawny as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
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1800
[Name] Bounty Hall
[Crop] cattle, sugar, rum Property of John Simpson Esq. Account filed by John Slack as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 147
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1801
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum Owner details not recorded. Account filed by John Flack (?) as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 187
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1803
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people, rents Property of John Simpson Esq. Account filed by John Slack as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 61
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1804
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum, old fat steers Belonging to John Simpson, Esq. Account filed in the name of John Slack, overseer to said estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 93
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1807
[Name] Bounty Hall
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, hire of enslaved people and house rental Belonging to John Simpson. Account filed by Joshua Dixon as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 124-125
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1808
[Name] Bounty Hall
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Belonging to John Simpson. Account filed by Joshua Dixon as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 194
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 597(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall and Tileston [Stock] 377 Registered to John Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Trel.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 585(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall etc. [Stock] 65 Registered to Simpson John. Assumed to be Bounty Hall and Tileston.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 400(Tot)
[Name] Bounty-Hall Registered to John Simpson. Page torn, no number of stock.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 404(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall [Stock] 272 Registered to John Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot) 53(F) 52(M)
[Name] [no name given] Roger Dobson and owned by Mrs Elizabeth Simpson an Absentee.
T71/225 463-466
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 425(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall [Stock] 270 Registered to John Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 423(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall [Stock] 32 Registered to John Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] Roger Dobson & owned by Elizabeth Simpson an absentee.
T71/230 Unpaginated
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 424(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall [Stock] 256 Registered to John Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 428(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall [Stock] 228 Registered to John Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] Roger Dobson and owned by Elizabeth Simpson an Absentee.
T71/232 [unpaginated]
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 441(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall [Stock] 183 Registered to John Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 433(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall [Stock] 210 Registered to John Simpson. Number of enslaved people unclear - 433?
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] Samuel Hilton owned by Elizabeth Simpson an Absentee.
T71/234 [unpaginated]
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 441(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall [Stock] 182 Registered to John Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall [Stock] 79 Registered to heirs of Eliza Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot) 7(F) 13(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Reeves and owned by Francis Tulloch in right of his wife Margery.
T71/240 [unpaginated]
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot) 64(F) 66(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Reeves and owned by the heirs of Elizabeth Simpson deceased.
T71/240 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 443(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall [Stock] 11 Registered to heirs of Eliza Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall [Stock] 65 Registered to heirs of Elizabeth Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall Registered to heirs of Elizabeth Simpson.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate In the possession of William Reeves as Attorney to the Heirs of Mrs Elizabeth Simpson. Decrease of 9 enslaved people by manumission.
T71/242 206
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28th Mar 1802 - 6th May 1874
Daughter of a wealthy planter and wife of the rector of St Elizabeth, Jamaica. Bigamous convicted forger.
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:
'Bounty Hall [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2556 [accessed 23rd December 2024].
