Clifton Hill

Estate Details

View in context on full map


Associated People (5)

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
1775 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Owner
1778 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Overseer

Given as Matthew Sterling and tentatively inferred by LBS to have been the same man as Matthew Stirling

1794 [EA] - 1797 [LA] → Owner
1798 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
1799 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Previous owner

Associated Claims (1)

£4,713 14S 9D

Notes

NB this is the same estate as 'Clifton Hall'.


Estate Information (54)

What is this?

1770
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Henderson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 12
1771
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of John Curtis and John Hanson Esq. Account filed by James Henderson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 166
1775
[Name] Cliffton Hill  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Hanson Esq. account filed by William Watson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 12-3
1776
[Name] Cliffton Hill  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Hanson Esq. account filed by William Watson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 109
1778
[Name] Clifton Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Hanson Esq. Account filed by Matthew Sterling as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 45
1779
[Name] Clifton Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Hanson Esq. Account filed by Matthew Sterling as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 108
1780
[Name] Clifton Hill Estates  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Harrison. Account filed by Matthew Stirling, overseer. Marlborough Mount & Clifton Hill Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 32-33
1781
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Matthew Stirling, overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Plantation filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 125
1782
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Hansen. Accounr filed by Mathew Stirling, overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 153
1783
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Matthew Sterling as overseer. Entry recorded Marlborough Mount and Clifton Hill together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 16
1785
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Sterling as overseer. Entry recorded Marlborough Mount and Clifton Hill together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 210
1786
[Name] Clifton Hill Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Hanson Esq; account filed by Matthew Sterling, overseer. Clifton Hill/Marlbro Mount Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 140
1787
[Name] Clifton Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to John Hanson Esq; account filed by John Barke, overseer. Clifton Hall and Malborough Mount Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 115
1787
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Hanson Esq; account filed by John Burke as overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 196
1788
[Name] Clifton Hill Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Hansom Esquire. Account filed by John Burke as overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 360
1789
[Name] Clifton Hill Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Hansom Esquire. Account filed by John Burke as overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 285 f.141
1790
[Name] Clifton Hill Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Hanson Esquire. Account filed by John Burke as overseer. Clifton Hill and Malborough Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 410
1791
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to John Hanson Esquire. Account filed by John Burkes as overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 357-358 [f.173]
1792
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Hanson Esquire. Account filed by John Burke as overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 266-267
1793
[Name] Clifton Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Hanson Esq, disposed of on the order of Eliphalet Fitch Esq acting attorney for the estates. Account filed by John Burke as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/05/1793. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mt estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 9
1794
[Name] Clifton Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, pimento, old brass and copper  
 

Property of William James Esq under the direction of George Goodin Barrett and Leonard Parkinson Esq. s. Account filed by James Boggs as overseer of both estates for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mt estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 187-188
1795
[Name] Clifton Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William James Esq. Account filed by Samuel Johnston as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1795. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mt estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 67
1796
[Name] Clifton Hill Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William James Esq. Account filed by Samuel Johnston, overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Plantations, Cambridge Pen all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 78
1797
[Name] Clifton Hill Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William James Esq. Account filed by Samuel Johnston, overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Plantations, Cambridge Pen all filed together.

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

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with a watermill 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] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Samuel Johnston overseer. Clifton Hall, Marlbro Mount Estates and Cambridge Pen filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 33
1799
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Samuel Johnston overseer. Belonging to the heirs of William James Esquire deceased. Clifton Hill and Malborough Mount recorded together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 98-99
1799
[Name] Clifton Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging the heirs of William James Esq deceased. Account filed by Samuel Johnston as overseer. Clifton Hill Estate, Marlborough Estate and Cambridge Penn filed together. Crops filed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 29
1800
[Name] Clifton Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of William James Esq. Account filed by Samuel Johnston. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Estates and Cambridge Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 92
1801
[Name] Clifton Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of William Jones (?) Esq. Account filed by Samuel Johnston. Clifton Hill, Marlborough Mount Estates and Cambridge Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 213
1806
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Samuel Johnston as attorney and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 12
1807
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Samuel Johnston as attorney and overseer. The estates of Clifton Hill, Marlboro Mount and Cambridge Pen were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 109
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 230  
 

Registered to heirs of William James.

 
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] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton hill  
[Stock] 174  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

 
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] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton-Hill  
[Stock] 224  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

 
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] 239(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 172  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

 
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] 263(Tot) 142(F) 121(M)  
[Name] Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Estates  
 

In the possession of George Patton Esq as attorney for Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Estates, the property of William James Esq deceased.

 
T71/145 384-391
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 282(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 73  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

 
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] 271(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

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

In the possession of George Patton Esq at attorney to William James Esq.

 
T71/146 219-220
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 157  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

 
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] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 119  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

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

In the possession of John Stevens Esq as attorney to William James Esq.

 
T71/147 181-183
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 99  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

 
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] 292(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 107  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

 
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] 289(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Scott as attorney to the Trustees of William James decd.

 
T71/148 163-164
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 291(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

 
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] 284(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

 
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] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Scott as attorney to the Trustees of William James Esq, decd.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 51  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

 
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] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

 
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] 243(Tot)  
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Stock] 49  
 

Registered to William James deceased.

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

In the possession of Charles Scott as attorney to the Trustees of William James Esq decd.

 
T71/150 258
1839
[Name] Clifton Hill  
[Size] 1162  
 

Registered to William James.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thoseast.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1839.