Belmont

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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
Judgement creditor
1778 [EA] - 1797 [LA] → Owner

Shown as owned by Thomas Wallen but in the hands of John Cope Freeman and his heirs as mortgagees.

1779 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1781 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Attorney

Tentative, possibly Philip Pinnock I

1798 [EA] - → Not known

Filed Accounts Produce

1809 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£3,187 15S 4D

Estate Information (49)

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1778
[Name] Bellmount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Property of the Hon Thomas Wallen Esq. Account filed by William McBean as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 65
1779
[Name] Bellmount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In the possession of John Cope Freeman Esq. Account filed by William McBean as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 123
1779
[Name] Belmont  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

In the possession of John Cope Freeman Esq. of Abbotts Langley in Great Britain as mortgagee of the Hon. Thomas Wallen Esq. Account filed by Lewis Cuthbert as acting attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 156
1780
[Name] Bellmount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In the possession of John Cope Freeman Esq. of the Kingdom of Great Britain as mortgagee of Thomas Wallen Esq. Account filed by Philip Pinnock as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 199
1781
[Name] Belmount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of John Cope Freeman Esquire of the Kingdom of Great Britain as Mortgagee. Account filed by Phillip Pinnock.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 106
1782
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

In the possession of John Cope Freeman Esquire of the Kingdom of Great Britain as Mortgagee. Account filed by Phillip Pinnock, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 158
1783
[Name] Belmont  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

In the possession of John Cope Freeman Esq. of the Kingdom of Great Britain as mortgagee. Account filed by Philip Pinnock as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 82
1784
[Name] Belmont Estate  
 

Philip Pinnock as attorney to John Cope Freeman Esq. the mortgagee in possession.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 19-25
1785
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of John Cope Freeman Esq of Great Britain as mortgagee; account filed by Philip Pinnock, attorney to John Cope Freeman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 76
1786
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Full accounts for the estate in the possession of John Cope Freeman Esq as Mortgagee; account filed by Philip Pinnock.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 184-189
1786
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The account of Belmont Estate with William Daling of London in the possession of John Cope Freeman Esquire as mortgagee to Philip Pinnock. Account filed by said Philip Pinnock. Accounts filed for 1786 to 30/04/1787.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 133-141 f.67-71
1786
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of John Cope Freeman Esq of Great Britain as mortgagee; account filed by Philip Pinnock, attorney to John Cope Freeman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 137
1786
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Matthew Kerwan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 149
1787
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In the possession of John Cope Freeman Esquire as mortgagee. Account filed by Philip Pinnock as his attorney. Accounts filed for December 1786 to April 1788.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 49-58 [f.25-29]
1787
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

In the possession of John Cope Freeman Esq as Mortgagee; account filed by G.H. Gibbons.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 220
1788
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of the heirs of John Cope Freeman Esquire deceased as mortgagee. Account filed by David Turnbull.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 79 [f.40]
1789
[Name] Belmont  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the trust estate of John Cope Freeman Esquire deceased, late mortgagee in possession. Account filed by George Henry Gibbons.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 372
1790
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 65 [f.27]
1791
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Jocelyn Palliser as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 446-447 [f.224]
1792
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Jocelyn Palliser as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 23
1793
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Jocelyn Palliser as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 360-361 [f.181]
1794
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Joseph Palliser as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 142
1795
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Thomas Watton Esq. Account filed by James Gierson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 246
1796
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the Hon Thomas Waller, Esq. Account filed by James Grierson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 50
1796
[Name] Belmont Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the Hon Thomas Wallen? Esq. Account filed by James Grierson, overseer.

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

Belonging to the Hon Thomas Wallen, Esq. Account filed by James Grierson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 199
1798
[Name] Belmount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Grierson for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 80
1798
[Name] Belmont  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St John 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.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Bellmont Estate  
[Stock] 151  
 

Registered to Hon. John Shand.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.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] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Bellmont  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to Hon. John Shand.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
[Stock] 167  
 

Registered to Hon. John Shand.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15john.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot) 113(F) 107(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Shand as attorney to John Shand.

 
T71/19 252-258
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
 

Registered to Hon. John Shand.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
[Stock] 58  
 

Registered to Honorable John Shand.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot) 116(F) 100(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Shand as attorney of John Shand Esquire.

 
T71/20 134-135
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
[Stock] 65  
 

Registered to John Shand.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
[Stock] 133  
 

Registered to John Shand.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
[Stock] 85  
 

Registered to John Shand.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot) 104(F) 94(M)  
[Name] Belmont Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander McInnes and William Power French as Attornies of John Shand Esq.

 
T71/21 37
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
[Stock] 117  
 

Registered to John Shand.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24john.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
[Stock] 107  
 

Registered to John Shand deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley Esq as Attorney of William Shand Esq, executor and Trustee under the last Will and Testament of John Shand Esq deceased.

 
T71/22 146
1826
[Name] Bellmont sugar estate  
 

Bequeathed by John Shand in trust (Kellett's sugar plantation in Clarendon, Mammee Gully Pen in Clarendon, Belmont sugar plantation in St John and Clifton pen in St Catherine) to his brother William Shand (of St Catherine), Rev. John Anderson (of Ireland) and Alexander Lamont (WS, of Edinburgh) for the benefit of William Shand with certain annuities: £200 Jamaican currency pa to Frances Brown; £10 pa Jamaican currency to his slaves Mary Gray (Beneba), Betty and Diana; £200 sterling pa for John Anderson; £20 sterling pa to Thomas Gale (his servant, manumitted and formerly known as Primus).

 
PROB 11/1710/17
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
 

Registered to William Shand.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
 

Registered to William Shand.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29cathjohn.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley Esq as Attorney of William Shand Esq.

 
T71/24 unpaginated
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont Estate  
 

Registered to Alexander Bayley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32john.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.?
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot) 89(F) 83(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley and Alexander McWilliam as Attornies of William Shand Esq.

 
T71/18 156
1839
[Name] Belmont  
[Size] 1501  
 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40John.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.