Endeavour

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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
1820 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary
1820 [EA] - → Guardian
1823 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Other
1829 [EA] - → Manager
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

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£929 7S 9D

Estate Information (13)

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1798
[Name] Endeavour  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Ann as a sugar estate with a cattlemill 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.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot)  
[Name] Endeavour  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Eliza Russell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)  
[Name] Endeavour  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to Eliza Russell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Eliza Russell as joint heir and owner and guardian for her sister, Catherine Russell [decrease of 35 - deaths 8, others sold under writs of venditioni exponas, or by Collecting Constable, some others also set free by verdict of a jury in the Grand Court]. This registration appears to have been for both Lime Hill and Endeavour estates combined.

 
T 71/44 538-540
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Eliza Russell and Catherine Russell as owners. This registration appears to have been for both Lime Hill and Endeavour estates combined.

 
T 71/45 680
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Eliza Russell and Catherine Russell as owners. This registration appears to have been for both Lime Hill and Endeavour estates combined.

 
T 71/46 685-686
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot)  
[Name] Endeavour  
 

Registered to Michael Smith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hamilton Brown as manager for Mrs M Smith and Miss Catherine Russell. This registration appears to have been for both Lime Hill and Endeavour estates combined.

 
T 71/48 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] Endeavour  
 

Registered to Smith and Russell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] Endeavour  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to Smith and Russell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hamilton Brown as attorney to Mrs. M Smith and Miss Catherine Russell. This registration appears to have been for both Lime Hill and Endeavour estates combined.

 
T 71/50 690
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] Endeavour  
 

Registered to Smith and Russell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Endeavour  
[Size] 364  
 

Registered to Catherine Russell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.