New Works

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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
1753 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Craton and Walvin, A Jamaican Plantation: the history of Worthy Park 1670-1970 record (p. 157) a bond debt in February 1753 from Charles Price to John Serocold, converted into a mortgage in 1758, of 'Burton's New Works with its 242 slaves' for a debt of £14,000, sourced to I.R.O. Deeds 170/7 and 281/86. On p. 53 they characterise the 1753 loan as a mortgage. They also imply Serocold (p. 157) died between 1753 and 1758. Serocold assigned or transferred the mortgage to Rene Payne and others in 1776.

1775 [EA] - 1778 [LA] → Owner
1776 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

In 1776 John Serocold appears to have transferred or assigned his mortgage over Burton New Works to Smith, Payne and Smith.

1776 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1776 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1809 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1836 [EA] - 1837 [LA] → Overseer

Rees was named as the overseer of the estate in 1836. By 1837, he had been discharged from the role.

1839 [EA] - → Not known

Probably attorney.


Associated Claims (1)

£10,530 19S 8.5D

Estate Information (31)

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1775
[Name] New Works  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Sir Charles Price Bart. Account filed by Edward Bradsford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 289
1776
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Burton's New Works  
 

Plantation or sugar work and piece of land called Bartons New Works. Description:
In the parish of St. Thomas in the Vale in the said island (name of island not stated) containing 658a 1r. and 38a. with messuages, etc., and boiling houses, curing houses, still houses, coppers, stills, worms, worm tubs, sugar pots, drips, plantation utensils and implements of planting and 242 negro and other slaves, 157 head of neat cattle and 30 mules together with the present and future offspring of the female slaves (John Serocold of London, Esq., to Abel Smith, Rene Payne and Robert Smith of Lombard Street, bankers. Date: 1776. [This appears to have been an assignment or transfer of Serocold's pre-existing mortgage.]

 
Buckinghamshire Archives, D-CN/A6.
1776
[Name] New Works  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Sir Charles Price's estate. Account filed by Edward Brailsford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 100-1
1777
[Name] New Works  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Sir Charles Price's estate. Account filed by Edward Brailsford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 102
1778
[Name] New Works  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Sir Charles Price's estate. Account filed by Edward Brailsford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 46
1795
[Name] New Works Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Blackburn as one of the proprietors of the plantations. Wallens and New Works plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 193
1797
[Name] New Works Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Owner not given. Account filed by John Blackburn, status not given. Wallons[?] and New Works Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 136
1798
[Name] New-Works  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1807
[Name] New Works  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Michael Campbell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 111
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot)  
[Name] New Works  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] New Works  
[Stock] 184  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] New Works and Burton's  
[Stock] 361  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
[Name] New Works and Burton's  
[Stock] 286  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 484(Tot) 266(F) 218(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Francis Graham as attorney to John Blackburn esq. Specifies two enslaved people owned by James alias George Davidson 'a slave included in the forging list'. Presumably combined totals for New Works and Wallens.

 
T71/25 283-297
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)  
[Name] New Works and Burton's  
[Stock] 97  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 342(Tot)  
[Name] New Works  
[Stock] 74  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 578(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George William Hamilton and Edward Sword as attornies John Blackburn esq. Combined totals for New Works and Wallens. Increase by purchase on New Works estate, last returned by Angus McKay as owner in St Thomas-in-the-Vale.

 
T71/26 187-192
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 350(Tot)  
[Name] New Works  
[Stock] 306  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 308(Tot)  
[Name] New Works  
[Stock] 323  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 553(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George William Hamilton, Henry Lowndes as attornies to John Blackburn Esq. Presumably combined totals for New Works and Wallens.

 
T71/27 147-150
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 304(Tot)  
[Name] New Works  
[Stock] 250  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 604(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Henry Loundes and George William Hamilton as attornies to John Blackburn esq.on New Works estate. Presumably combined totals for New Works and Wallens.

 
T71/28 261-266
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 299(Tot)  
[Name] New Works  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 585(Tot) 326(F) 259(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Edward Blouston as one of the attornies of John Blackburn. Presumably combined totals for New Works and Wallens.

 
T71/29 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 293(Tot)  
[Name] New Works  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 298(Tot)  
[Name] New Works  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 297(Tot)  
[Name] New Yorks  
 

Registered to John Blackburn.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 583(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Henry Lowndes as attorney to John Blackburn Esquire. Presumably the combined totals for New Works and Wallens.

 
T71/32 195
1836
[Name] New Works  
 

In 1836, Henry Lowndes was the attorney of the estate and Henry Tudor Rees was its overseer. A Dr Granes was the occasional medical attendant. Apprentices included estate constables Robert Hamilton and Alexander Grant, George Robinson, watchmen George Francis and Edward Sword, Ann Richards and her mother, Henry Grant, and Elizabeth Clayton.

 
British Emancipator, Wednesday 31 January 1838, p. 2, online at: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002372/18380131/017/0002.
1837
[Name] New Works  
 

Henry Lowndes was the proprietor of New Works in August 1837. Henry Tudor Rees, the late overseer of New Works, had been recently discharged ‘for some gross act of cruelty to a poor apprentice, who was in a state of insanity!’ Mr Ferrier was installed as the new overseer, and Dr McDermott was ‘the paid medical attendant on New Works; himself an owner of slaves, and most unkind and unfeeling in his treatment of sick apprentices.’

 
British Emancipator. Wednesday 14 February 1838, p. 6. Online at: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002372/18380214/021/0006?browse=true&fullscreen=true
1839
[Name] New Works  
[Size] 2060  
 

Registered to Henry Lowndes. Possibly the acreage includes Burton's.

 
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.