Monymusk

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Associated People (11)

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
1755 [SY] - → Owner

The History section of the Monymusk (Scotland) website states that the estate first came into the Grant family through Archibald 3rd's marriage to Mary Callendar, rather than his father's marriage to Elizabeth Callendar nee Clark, https://www.monymusk.com/?page=6&sub=7.

- 1778 [EY] → Owner

This connection is made by an Aberdeen University website, https://www.abdn.ac.uk/slavery/3p1.htm [accessed 15/08/2019]. It has not yet been confirmed by LBS.

1794 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Owner
1802 [EA] - 1802 [LA] → Not known

Lady Nugent described 'Money Musk as 'Mrs Sympson's estate' in 1802.

1809 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Other
1820 [EA] - → Other
1824 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Attorney

Given as Charles H. Phillips

1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£5,720 19S 3D

Estate Information (29)

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1794
[Name] Monymusk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Sympson. Account filed by James Peebles.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 60-61
1795
[Name] Monymusk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Sympson. Account filed by James Peebles.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 61
1796
[Name] Monymusk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Sympson. Account filed by James Peebles.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 61
1797
[Name] Monymusk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Sympson. Account filed by James Peebles.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 61
1798
[Name] Moneymusk  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Vere 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.
1798
[Name] Monymusk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Sympson. Account filed by James Peebles.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 61
1807
[Name] Money Musk  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Account filed by William Adam as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 41-42
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to Robert Sympson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Vere.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
 

Registered to Robert Simpson. Number of stock illegible.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cla.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Money-Musk  
[Stock] 133  
 

Registered to Robert Sympson. Number of stock unclear.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 237(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
[Stock] 95  
 

Registered to Robert Sympson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot) 131(F) 108(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In possession of Donald McLean as attorney to Robert Sympson Esquire.

 
T71/51 137-142
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
 

Registered to Robert Simpson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 282(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
 

Registered to Robert Simpson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Donald McLean as attorney to Robert Sympson Esquire. 46 enslaved people purchased from James Morgan in Vere as receiver to the estate of Robert Huggins deceased.

 
T71/52 25-27
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
[Stock] 104  
 

Registered to Robert Simpson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 259(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to Robert Simpson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 265(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Donald McLean as attorney of Robert Sympson Esquire as owner.

 
T71/53 109-110
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
[Stock] 116  
 

Registered to Robert Sympson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
[Stock] 146  
 

Registered to Robert Sympson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot) 134(F) 121(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Honble Francis Smith and William Lewis as attornies to Robert Sympson.

 
T71/54 104-105
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Money musk  
[Stock] 57  
 

Registered to Robert Sympson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to Robert Sympson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29clarvere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Francis Smith and William Lewis Esquire as attornies to Robert Sympson Esquire.

 
T71/55 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
[Stock] 86  
 

Registered to Robert Sympson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
[Stock] 80  
 

Registered to Robert Sympson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Money Musk  
[Stock] 95  
 

Registered to Robert Sympson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 247(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Lewis Esquire attorney to Robert Sympson Esquire.

 
T71/56 81
1839
[Name] Money Musk  
[Size] 1935  
 

Registered to Robert Sympson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.