Chiswick

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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
1780 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Owner
1788 [EA] - 1796 [LA] → Previous owner
1800 [EA] - 1805 [LA] → Joint owner

Shown simply as 'John and Thomas Burton' from 1800 to 1832. After 1805 Thomas Burton I's share belonged to his children (including Thomas Burton II) as heirs and as tenants-in-common.

1806 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1806 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner

Associated Claims (1)

£3,119 10S 10D

Estate Information (47)

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1778
[Name] Chiswick  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Vernon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 51
1780
[Name] Chiswick  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Matthew Wallen Esq. Account filed by Robert Souper Bayley as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 208
1781
[Name] Chiswick  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Matthew Wallen Esq. Account filed by Robert Souper Bayley as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 219
1782
[Name] Chiswick Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Matt Wallen Esquire. Account filed by Robert Souper Bayley, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 155
1783
[Name] Chiswick  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Matthew Wallen Esq. Account filed by Alexander Hinshelwood as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 28
1785
[Name] Chiswick Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Matthew Wallen Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 41
1786
[Name] Chiswick Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Matthew Wallen; account filed by Bartholomew Waldron, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 94
1788
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Vernon Esquire deceased. Account filed by William Lumsden.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 326
1789
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Lumsden.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 289 f.143
1790
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Vernon Esquire deceased. Account filed by William Lumsden.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 264 [duplicted 266]
1791
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Lumsden.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 235 [f.112]
1792
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Lumsden.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 80-81
1793
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Lumsden.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 60-61
1794
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Lumsden as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 180
1795
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Vernon, Esq, deceased. Account filed by William Lumsden.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 17
1796
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to John Vernon Esq, dec. Account filed by William Lumsden.

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

Owner not given. Account filed by William Lumsden, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 171
1798
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Lumsden attorney to the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 263
1798
[Name] Chiswick  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and a windmill 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.
1799
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lancelot Burton.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 23
1800
[Name] Chiswich Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John and Tho. Burton. Account filed by Lancelot Burton as manager.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 187
1801
[Name] Chiswick  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by William Lumsden.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 203
1803
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John and Thomas Burton Esq.s. Account filed by William Lumsden as attorney for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 119
1807
[Name] Chiswick  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to John & Thomas Burton Esqs. Account filed by Robert Anderson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 60
1808
[Name] Chiswick  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Anderson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 205
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 240(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 216(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 128  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Barton.

 
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] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 201(Tot) 106(F) 95(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Holgate as attorney to the heirs of John Fernon[?] deceased.

 
T71/145 849-854
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)  
[Name] Bell Voir  
 

Registered to Richard Arrowsmith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 39  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 41  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

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

In the possession of John McKenzie as attorney for Thomas Burton.

 
T71/146 64-65
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 130  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 196(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 157  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

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

In the possession of John McKenzie as attorney to Thomas Burton.

 
T71/147 51-52
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 132  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 147  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 194(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Anderson as attorney to the Proprietors of Chiswick Estate.

 
T71/148 59-60
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 72  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 59  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 181(Tot) 90(F) 91(M)  
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
 

In the possession of James Forsyth and James Townson as attornies to the Proprietors of Chiswick Estate.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Chiswick  
[Stock] 46  
 

Registered to John and Thomas Burton.

 
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] 169(Tot) 84(F) 85(M)  
[Name] Chiswick Estate  
 

In the possession of James Forsyth and James Townson as attorneys to the Proprietors of Chiswick Estate.

 
T71/150 183