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Swansea Coffee Plantation

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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
1809 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Henry Deffell
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
William Jackson

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Jamaica St John 70 (Swansea Coffee Plantation)
£3,224 15S 8.75D

Estate Information (17)

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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 630(Tot)  
[Name] Swansea etc.  
[Stock] 128  
 

Registered to John Deffel. Assumed to be Swansea sugar estate, Swansea Coffee estate and Brown's Hll Pen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 608(Tot) 317(F) 291(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson Esquire as attorney to John Henry Deffell Esquire. Assumed to be Swansea Coffee Estate, Swansea Sugar Estate and Brown's Hall Pen.

 
T71/19 166-185
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 529(Tot)  
[Name] Swansea, Brown's Town, and coffee mountain  
[Stock] 332  
 

Registered to John H. Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 623(Tot) 326(F) 297(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson Esq as Attorney to John Henry Deffell Esq. Assumed to be Swansea Coffee Estate, Swansea Sugar Estate and Brown's Hall Pen.

 
T71/20 177-180
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Mountain  
 

Registered to John Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Mountain  
 

Registered to John Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Mountain  
 

Registered to John Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 603(Tot)  
[Name] Swansea Estate, Coffee Mountain and Browns Hall  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney to John Henry Deffell Esq. Assumed to be Swansea Coffee Estate, Swansea Sugar Estate and Brown's Hall Pen.

 
T71/21 125
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Mountain  
 

Registered to John Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24john.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Mountain  
[Stock] -  
 

Registered to John H. Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 602(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson Esq as Attorney to John Henry Deffell Esq. Assumed to be Swansea Coffee Estate, Swansea Sugar Estate and Brown's Hall Pen.

 
T71/22 130
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Mountain  
 

Registered to John H. Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Mountain  
 

Registered to John H. Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29cathjohn.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot) 85(F) 70(M)  
[Name] Swansea Coffee Plantation  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney for John Henry Deffell Esq.

 
T71/23 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Mountain  
 

Registered to John H. Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831john.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Mountion  
 

Registered to John Henry Deffell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32john.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot) 84(F) 73(M)  
[Name] Swansea Coffee Plantation  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney to John Henry Deffell Esq.

 
T71/18 128