Harbour Head

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Associated People (8)

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
- 1823 [LA] → Previous owner

In his will made in July 1821 and proved in 1822 Thomas Mackenzie said he had bought Harbour Head 'lately of William Beckford'

1754 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Owner

Although William Beckford died in 1770 the Accounts Produce recorded him as owner until 1773.

1779 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Previous owner
1783 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - → Other

Sold enslaved people to this estate.

1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Executor
1825 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Not known

Shown as 'attorney, mortgagee or exor at Harbour Head' in 1832.

1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner

Associated Claims (2)

£1,355 18S 7D
£888 12S 4D

Estate Information (54)

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1754
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The several Estates of William Beckford, under the direction of Richard Lewing & John Mclead. Account filed by Richard Lewing, one of the attorneys. Retreat, Rock River, Malmsey Valley, Danks, Karys's Cralie, Moores, Harbour Head, Stanton, Esher, Guamaboa, Seven Mile Walk, Stanton Estates. Crops are for all the estates combined.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 3
1769
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. Account filed by Thomas Stamford as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 202
1770
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. Account filed by Thomas Stamford as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 24
1771
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Thomas Stamford as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 160
1772
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum , molasses  
 

Account filed by Thomas Stamford as overseer of Harbour Head

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 2
1773
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. Account filed by Thomas Stamford as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 61
1774
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum , molasses  
 

Account filed by Thomas Stamford as overseer of Harbour Head

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 228
1775
[Name] Harbourhead  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Stamford as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 24
1777
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Stamford, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 122
1778
[Name] Harbourhead  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Stamford as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 99
1779
[Name] Harbourhead  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Stamford as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 105
1780
[Name] Harbourhead  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Stamford as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 109
1781
[Name] Harbourhead  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Stamford as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 110
1783
[Name] Harbourhead  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by John MacDonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 112-3
1785
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Young, bookkeeper on Harbour Head Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 48
1786
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Porteous, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 156
1786
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Will.m Beckford Esq; account filed by James Porteous as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 164
1787
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Donald Campbell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 36-37 f.19
1788
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Donald Campbell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 312-313 f.166
1789
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Peter Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 270
1790
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Beckford Esquire. Account filed by Peter Smith.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 241 [f.121]
1791
[Name] Harbour Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Beckford Esquire. Account filed by Peter Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 149 [f.69]
1792
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
[Crop] cattle  
 

The property of Wm Beckford Esquire. Account filed by Peter Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 86
1793
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of William Beckford Esq of Fonthill. Account filed by Thomas Maxwell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 29
1794
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Beckford Esq of Fonthill. Account filed by Thomas Maxwell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 55
1795
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, rents  
 

Account filed by William Waller as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 207
1796
[Name] Harbour head Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William A Waller, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Harbour Head Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, land rent, rent of maltster?  
 

Account filed by William A Waller, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 217
1798
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1798
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William A Wallen overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 51
1799
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, rents  
 

Account filed by Wm A Wateer for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 113-114
1800
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, rents, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Reid Baillie for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 127
1801
[Name] Harbour Head Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, ginger, coffee, cocoa, piemento  
 

Under the care and direction of William A Waters or which he is in possession of Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 109
1803
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, rents  
 

Account filed by Wm A Waller for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 152
1807
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Reid.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 2
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 117  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour head  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1811.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 95  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1817.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 71(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
 

In the possession of George Patton Esq as attorney for Harbour Head Estate, the property of William Beckford Esq.

 
T71/145 79-82
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1819.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1820.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head Estate  
 

In the possession of George Patton as attorney for Harbour Head Estate the property of William Beckford Esq.

 
T71/146 33
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 80  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1821.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to heirs of Thomas McKenzie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1823.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head Plantation  
 

In the possession of John Mackenzie as Exor of Thomas McKenzie for Harbour Head Plantation; total from 1820 not recorded. Large numbers purchased from Sarah Fergusson since 1820.

 
T71/147 226-232
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to John McKenzie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1825.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 142  
 

Registered to John McKenzie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1826.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 126  
 

Registered to John McKenzie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1827.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 81  
 

Registered to John McKenzie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1828.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
 

In the possession of John MacKenzie as owner. Large number of enslaved people purchased from Windsor Forest since 1826.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 118  
 

Registered to John McKenzie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1830
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 118  
 

Registered to John McKenzie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1831.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to John McKenzie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1832.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Harbour Head  
 

In the possession of Hector Mitchell as representing John Mackenzie as attorney, mortgagee or exor at Harbour Head.

 
T71/150 325