Oxford

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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
1753 [SY] - 1763 [LA] → Owner
- 1753 [EY] → Owner
1741 [EA] - 1742 [LA] → Previous owner
1741 [EA] - 1742 [LA] → Other

The estate was shown as 'under the care of' Mrs Elizabeth Trehee

1757 [EA] - 1761 [LA] → Not known

The estate was described as that of Miss Elizabeth Carroll 'in account of William Dover.' Dover was possibly an annuitant.

1764 [EA] - 1769 [LA] → Joint owner
1764 [EA] - 1769 [LA] → Joint owner
1770 [EA] - 1810 [EY] → Owner
1798 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Other

Produce shipped to the trustees of Beckford and James.

1815 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner

Associated Claims (1)

£1,992 7S 11D

Estate Information (60)

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1740
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Patrick Welsh deceased, come into the hands of Patrick Taylor surviving executor of the last will and testament of Patrick Welsh. Account filed by Patrick Taylor. The estates of Oxford and Spring Garden were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 53
1741
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Captain Patrick Trehee and Edward Roe Esqs. both deceased now under the care of Mrs. Trehee. Account filed by John Burke as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 157
1742
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Captain Patrick Trehee and Edward Rose Esqr. deceased and now under the care of Mrs. Elizabeth Trehee. Account filed by Joseph O"Brien manager of the plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 37-38
1753
[Name] Oxford  
 

Bequeathed by James Carroll to his daughter Elizabeth.

 
PROB 11/829/386
1757
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum. Annexed account of outgoings and income  
 

Belonging to Miss Elizabeth Carroll, in account with William Dover. Account filed by William Dover.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 75-76
1758
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses. Annexed account of outgoings and income  
 

Belonging to Miss Elizabeth Carroll, in account with William Dover. Account filed by William Dover. Oxford Estate and Spring Garden Estate filed together with no differentiation in their crops. Annexed account of outgoings and income.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 95-99
1759
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Miss Elizabeth Carroll, in account with William Dover. Account filed by William Dover. Oxford and Spring Garden Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 140-144
1760
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Miss Elizabeth Carroll, in account with William Dover. Account filed by William Dover. Oxford and Spring Garden Estate filed together. Annexed account of outgoings and income.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 166-171
1761
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, annexed account of outgoings and income  
 

Belonging to Miss Elizabeth Carroll, in account with William Dover. Account filed by William Dover. Oxford and Spring Garden filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 199-202
1762
[Name] Oxford  
 

Belonging to Miss Elizabeth Carroll.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 12
1763
[Name] Oxford  
 

Belonging to Miss Elizabeth Carroll, now Elizabeth Beckford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 62
1764
[Name] Oxford  
 

Belonging to Mrs Elizabeth Beckford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 97
1766
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Beckford Esquire. Account filed by John Frion Esq. as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 2
1767
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Beckford Esquire. Account filed by John Frowe (sp) Esq. as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 61
1768
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Frion Esq. as one of the attorneys of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Beckford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 99
1769
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel and Elizabeth Beckford. Account filed by Richard Lewing Esq. as surviving attorney to the estates of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Beckford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 194
1770
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Beckford Esquire. Account filed by Alexander Cameron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 24
1771
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Beckford Esquire. Account filed by Alexander Cameron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 164
1772
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel and Elizabeth Beckford. Account filed by Alexander Cameron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 2
1788
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Lowe gent. Accounts filed for 22/02/1788 to 31/08/1788. Oxford and Spring Garden Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 412
1789
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the Hon. Nathaniel Beckford Esquire. Account filed by Nicol McGregor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 445 f.220
1790
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the care and direction of James Jones Esquire. Account filed by Nicol McGregor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 409 [f.204]
1791
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the Hon. Nath.l Beckford Esquire. Account filed by Nicol McGregor as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01/1791 to 01/08/1791.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 381-382
1792
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Nathaniel Beckford Esquire. Account filed by Nichol McGregor as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/08/1791 to 31/12/1792.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 166
1793
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Nathaniel Beckford Esq. Account filed by Nicol McGregor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 66
1794
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Forbes Thain.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 179
1794
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, old building materials  
 

Property of Nathaniel Beckford Esq. Account filed by Nicol McGregor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 216
1795
[Name] Oxford Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In possession of Nathaniel Beckford, Esq. Account filed by Robert Stewart, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 19
1796
[Name] Oxford Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cows  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Beckford, Esq. Account filed by John Cameron, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Oxford Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old steer, cow, calf  
 

Belonging to Nathaniel Beckford, Esq. Account filed by John Cameron, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 105
1798
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Shipped to the trustees of Beckford and James in London. Account filed by John Cameron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 237
1798
[Name] Oxford  
[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] Oxford Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum. 6 heads of cattle.  
 

Account filed by Alex Milne.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 1
1799
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Alex Milne overseer. The property of Nathaniel Beckford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 91
1800
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the Hon Nathaniel Beckford Esq in the possession of the trustees of Messrs Beckford and James. Account filed by Alexander Milne as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 4
1801
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

No owner details. Account filed by Alexander Milner as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 218
1804
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, old steers  
 

Owners name not given. Account filed in the name of Alexander Milne, overseer for said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 111
1807
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Tobin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 57
1808
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account filed by John Tobin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 202
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 59  
 

Registered to Hon. Nathaniel Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 71  
 

Registered to Hon. N. Beckford 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] 114(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 73  
 

Registered to Hon. N. Beckford 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] 108(Tot) 62(F) 46(M)  
[Name] Oxford Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Milne and George William Hamilton as Receivers for Oxford Estate.

 
T71/145 547-550
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to Honorable N. Beckford 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] 111(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to Honorable Nathaniel Beckford 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] 105(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford Estate  
 

In the possession of George William Hamilton and Alexander Milne as Receivers for Oxford Estate.

 
T71/146 189
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to Honorable Nathaniel Beckford 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] 102(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to Honorable Nathaniel Beckford 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] 103(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford Estate  
 

In the possession of George William Hamilton and Alexander Milne as Joint Receivers for Oxford Estate.

 
T71/147 162
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 64  
 

Registered to Honorable Nathaniel Beckford 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] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 50  
 

Registered to Hon. Nathaniel Beckford 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] 101(Tot) 60(F) 41(M)  
[Name] Oxford Estate  
 

In the possession of George William Hamilton and Charles Scott as Receivers and belonging to the Heirs of the Honourable Nathaniel Beckford.

 
T71/148 26-27
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Hon. Nathaniel Beckford 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] 95(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to Hon. Nathaniel Beckford 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] 97(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Scott and Wm Hamilton Esq as Receivers for Oxford Estate.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Hon. Nathaniel Beckford 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] 97(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Hon. Nathaniel Beckford 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] 94(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Hon. Nathaniel Beckford 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] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Scott and George William Hamilton as Receivers.

 
T71/150 461
1839
[Name] Oxford  
[Size] 1585  
 

Registered to Nathaniel Beckford.

 
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.