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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
1773 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Owner
1786 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Receiver
1795 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary
1810 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Not known
1820 [EA] - → Agent
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Other

As representative of John Mackenzie


Associated Claims (1)

£2,505 4S 11D

Estate Information (51)

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1773
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Part of the real estate of George Rosewell Bennett Esq. and come into the hands and knowledge of Malcolm Laing as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 82
1774
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

The property of George Rosewell Bennett Esq. and come into the hands and knowledge of Malcolm Laing as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 214
1775
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Malcolm Laing as attorney to George Rosewell Bennet Esq. the owner.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 10-11
1776
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Malcolm Laing as attorney to George Rosewell Bennet Esq. the owner.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 92
1778
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Malcolm Laing as attorney to George Rosewell Bennet Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 76
1779
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum and wood  
 

Account filed by Malcolm Laing as attorney to George Rosewell Bennet Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 146
1780
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, wood  
 

Property of George Rosewell Bennet Esquire. Account filed by Malcolm Laing attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 28
1781
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum and wood  
 

Account filed by Malcolm Laing as attorney to George Rosewell Bennet Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 145
1782
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, timber  
 

Property of George Rosewell Bennett Esquire. Account filed by John Jaques, acting executor [illegible who he is executor for, but no "deceased" on GRB].

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 214
1783
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum and wood  
 

The property of George Rosewell Bennet Esq. Account filed by John Jacques one of the acting executors of Malcolm Laing Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 152
1784
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum and wood  
 

The property of George Rosewell Bennet Esq. Account filed by John Jacques one of the acting executors of Malcolm Laing Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 163-4
1786
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of George Rosewell Bennett, now in possession of Charles Mitchell as receiver; account filed by Colin Donaldson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 112
1786
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum; old brass and iron; land rents  
 

The property of George Rosewell Bennett Esq in the possession of Charles Mitchell as receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery; account filed by Colin Donaldson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 159-160
1787
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of George Rosewell Bennett Esq in the possession of Charles Mitchell as receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery; account filed by David Cohn Donaldson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 144
1788
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of George Rosewell Bennett Esquire in the possession of Charles Mitchell as receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery. Account filed by Colin Donaldson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 238-239 f.129
1789
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Charles Mitchell as receiver. Account filed by Colin Donaldson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 182-183
1790
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Charles Mitchell as receiver. Account filed by Colin Donaldson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 428-429 [f.215]
1791
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Charles Mitchell as receiver. Account filed by Colin Donaldson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 263-264 [f.126]
1792
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Charles Mitchell as receiver of the rents and profits of the plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 210-211 [f.106]
1793
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Charles Mitchell as receiver. Account filed by Colin Donaldson as overseer for the year to 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 79-80
1795
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Price Bennett a minor under the care and direction of and the estate in the possession of Charles Mitchell of the parish of St Andrew as receiver. Account filed by said Charles Mitchell for the year to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 232
1796
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, rent, hire of enslaved people, herring, old iron  
 

Belonging to Charles Price Bennett, minor. Account given by Charles Mitchell, receiver. Account filed by David John Ross, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account given by Charles Mitchell as Receiver appointed by Chancery. Account filed by John Ross, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 119
1798
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1798
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, copper, wood  
 

Account filed John Ross overseer. In possession of Charles Mitchell as Receiver.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 36
1799
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Charles Mitchell as receiver. Account filed by John Ross as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 14-16
1800
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, old brass, rents, labour hire  
 

In the possession of Charles Mitchell as receiver. Account filed by John Ross as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 103-104
1801
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In the possession of Charles Mitchell as Receiver. Account filed by John Ross as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 195
1803
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Ross as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 234-235
1807
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the care and direction of or in the possession of Edward Clouston as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 114
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 95  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to Rose Mills.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1811.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 110  
 

Registered to Rose Mills.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1815.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1817.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot) 61(F) 35(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Francis Graham as attorney to Thomas Miller or Milles Esq.

 
T71/145 537-540
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 37  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1819.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1820.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George William Hamilton as Agent to Thomas Milles Esq.

 
T71/146 319
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 105  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1821.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 97  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1823.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Mackenzie as attorney for Rose Miles, Proprietor.

 
T71/147 253-254
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 93  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1825.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 87  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1826.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 11(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Mackenzie as attorney of Rose Milles.

 
T71/148 232-233
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1827.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 28  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1828.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John MacKenzie as attorney for Rose Miles.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 32  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1830
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 28  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1831.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to Rose Milles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1832.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 75(F) 50(M)  
[Name] Georgia Estate  
 

In the possession of Hector Mitchell as representing John Mackenzie for Georgia Estate.

 
T71/150 360