Dover Castle 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
1798 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Previous owner
1815 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Trustees for Bogle H[amilton?] registered the enslaved people on this estate in 1823. Bogles of Kingston Jamaica had failed between 1821 and 1824.

1826 [EA] - 30/05/1861 [ED] → Owner
1829 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£2,622 5S 1.5D

Estate Information (26)

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1798
[Name] Dover Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of David Henriques Esq deceased. Account filed by Richard Logan Dickson for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 203
1798
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to heirs of David Henriquez with 199 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.
1799
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Theobald Dillon overseer. Belonging to the Heirs of David Henriques deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 118-119
1800
[Name] Dover Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of the late David Henriques Esq deceased. Account filed by Theobald Dillon as overseer. Accounts filed for 1799-1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 114
1801
[Name] Dover Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of David Henriques deceased. Account filed by Theobald Dillon Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 128
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to heirs of Henriques.

 
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] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Stock] 118  
 

Registered to Jacob Henriques.

 
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] 158(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to Jacob Henriques.

 
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] 151(Tot) 77(F) 74(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Jacob Harinque esq as owner.

 
T71/25 400-404
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Stock] 107  
 

Registered to Jacob Henriques.

 
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] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to Jacob Henriques.

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

In the possession of George William Hamilton as attorney to Jacob Henriquez esq.

 
T71/26 170
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Jacob Henriques.

 
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] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Stock] 132  
 

Registered to Jacob Henriques.

 
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] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
 

In the possession of George W Hamilton as attorney for Dover Castle Estate for the trustees as Messrs Bogles H Mortgagees.

 
T71/27 159
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Stock] 131  
 

Registered to the estate of Jacob Henriques.

 
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] 188(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Stock] 112  
 

Registered to the estate of Jacob Henriques.

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

In the possession of Solomon Mendes Dasilva as owner.

 
T71/28 117-122
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to S. M. DaSilva.

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

In the possession of Alex Joseph Lindo as attorney to Solomon Mendes Da Silva.

 
T71/30 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
 

Registered to S. M. DaSilva.

 
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] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
 

Registered to S. M. DaSilva.

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

In the possession of Solomon Mendes Da Silva as owner. Given in for last return by Alexander Joseph Lindo as my attorney.

 
T71/32 86
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Dover Castle  
 

Registered to S. M. Da Silva.

 
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] Dover Castle  
[Size] 900  
 

Registered to S. M. DaSilva.

 
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.