River Head Estate

Estate Details


Associated People (4)

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
1797 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1799 [EA] - → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1830 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£2,648 12S 10D

Estate Information (38)

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1763
[Name] Riverhead  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a cattle mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1786
[Name] River Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Richardson Redwar as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 169
1787
[Name] Riverhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Richardson Redwar gentleman as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 183
1788
[Name] River Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Andrew Hornsbee as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 314
1789
[Name] River Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Andrew Hornsby as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 344
1790
[Name] River Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Smart Aldred as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 410-411 [f.205]
1791
[Name] River Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Smart Aldred as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 315 [f.152]
1792
[Name] River Head Estate  
[Crop] cattle  
 

Account filed by George Alpress Thomas as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 52-53
1793
[Name] River Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by George Alpress Thomas as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 369 [f.185]
1794
[Name] River Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Russell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 173-174
1795
[Name] River Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Russell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 12
1796
[Name] Riverhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Philip O"Connell, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Riverhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, old copper  
 

Belonging to William Lord, minor. Account filed by Philip O"Connell, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 199
1798
[Name] Riverhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Philip O"Connell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 231
1799
[Name] Riverhead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Dugald Masterton as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 230
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] River Head  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to the heirs of Henry Lord with 153 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 48.
1801
[Name] River Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of William Lord, a minor. Account filed by Dugald Masterton.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 206
1803
[Name] River Head Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Lord a minor. Account filed by John Gibbons as overseer (since 28/09/1803) for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 126
1804
[Name] Riverhead Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Millward, Esq. Account filed by John McIntosh, overseer for said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 151
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 249(Tot)  
[Name] River Head  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to William Lord.

 
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] 234(Tot)  
[Name] River-Head  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to William Lord.

 
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] 233(Tot)  
[Name] River Head  
[Stock] 119  
 

Registered to William Lord.

 
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] 209(Tot) 110(F) 99(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Shand as attorney to William Lord.

 
T71/25 605
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot)  
[Name] River Head  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to William Lord.

 
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.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 203(Tot)  
[Name] River Head  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to William Lord.

 
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] 211(Tot) 111(F) 100(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of the Honourable William Shand as attorney to William Lord esq.

 
T71/26 371-372
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] River Head  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to William Lord.

 
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.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] River Head  
[Stock] 119  
 

Registered to William Lord.

 
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] 215(Tot) 115(F) 100(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Lord esq as Proprietor.

 
T71/27 186
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] River Head  
[Stock] 117  
 

Registered to William Lord.

 
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.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
[Name] River Head  
[Stock] 93  
 

Registered to William Lord.

 
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] 209(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Lord as owner.

 
T71/28 101-102
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot) 82(F) 87(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Charles Anderson as owner.

 
T71/29 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] River Head  
[Stock] 39  
 

Registered to Charles Anderson.

 
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] 150(Tot)  
[Name] River Head  
[Stock] 100  
 

Registered to Charles Anderson.

 
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] 155(Tot) 76(F) 79(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Charles Anderson as owner. No previous totals given but an increase of 14 and a decrease of 28 enslaved people since 1829.

 
T71/32 9
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Riverhead  
 

Registered to Charles Anderson.

 
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.
1839
[Name] Riverhead and Vale Park  
[Size] 1144  
 

Registered to John Ewart. Vale Park has not been identified.

 
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.