Blue Hole Estate

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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
1774 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Associated Claims (2)

£2,790 6S 3D
£1,786 10S 9D

Estate Information (29)

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1769
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Henry Waite Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Watson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 204
1770
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Henry Waite Esq. deceased. Account filed by Raynes Barrett Waite as acting executor of the estate of Henry Waite Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 27
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 160  
 

Listed as belonging to Rains B. Waite with 1 men bearing arms and 8 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 84 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1787
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Raynes Barrett Waite; account filed by Joshua Keller Lewis, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 96
1787
[Name] Blue Hole Estate (Old and New Works)  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Raynes Barrett Waite; account filed by Joshua Keller Lewis, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 96
1787
[Name] Bluehole Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Johnston as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 61-62
1799
[Name] Blue-Hole  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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.
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 283(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole & Moreland  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with Raynes Barrett Waite as the proprietor.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 27. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 305(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to R. B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 298(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole etc.  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to Raynes B. Waite.

 
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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Blue-Hole  
[Stock] 208  
 

Registered to Raynes Barrett Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 199  
 

Registered to Raynes B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot) 140(F) 150(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Raynes Barrett Waite as owner.

 
T71/201 320-328
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 206  
 

Registered to Raynes B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 299(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Valley  
[Stock] 202  
 

Registered to Raynes B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Raynes Barrett Waite as owner.

 
T71/205 179-180
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 176  
 

Registered to Raynes B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Raynes Barrett Waite as owner.

 
T71/211 197-199
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole and Moreland  
[Stock] 191  
 

Registered to Raynes B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 210  
 

Registered to heirs of R. B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot) 128(F) 129(M)  
[Name] Bluehole Estate  
 

In the possession of Richard Barrett as Trustee of Raynes Barrett Waite decd.

 
T71/213 165-166
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 81  
 

Registered to heirs of R. B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 246(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 70  
 

Registered to heirs of R. B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
 

Registered in two groups: Hon Richard Barrett and George Crawford Ricketts as Exors and Trustees under the Will of Raynes Barrett Waite decd (50 men and 48 women);. registered by George Gordon as attorney to the heirs of Raynes Barrett Waite deceased (152 in total).

 
T71/216, T71/221 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 86  
 

Registered to heirs of R. B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 215  
 

Registered to heirs of Raynes B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 237(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 102  
 

Registered to heirs of Raynes B. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole and Moreland Estates  
 

Registered in two groups: George Gordon as Attorney to the Heirs of Raynes Barrett Waite decd (68 men and 78 women); Hon Richard Barrett and George Crawford Ricketts as Exors and Trustees under the Will of Raynes Barrett Waite decd (83 people in total). Decrease of 7 enslaved people "claimed by William Martin Waite and possession delivered up by the atttorney to and with that auction of the [illegible]".

 
T71/222, T71/223 231, 187
1839
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Size] 972  
 

Registered to heirs of Raynes R. Waite.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.