Brampton Bryan Estate

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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
1776 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Owner
1803 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Previous owner
1807 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner

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£5,510 19S 7D

Estate Information (30)

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1776
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to Bryan Edwards Esq. Account filed by Philip Doherty.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 137
1777
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to Bryan Edwards Esq. Account filed by Philip Doherty.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 137
1778
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to Bryan Edwards Esq. Account filed by Philip Doherty.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 136
1778
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Zachary Bayley Edwards Esq. as one of the attorneys of Bryan Edwards Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 141
1780
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Zachary Bayley Edwards Esq. as one of the attorneys of Bryan Edwards Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 197
1793
[Name] Brampton Bryan Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Bryan Edwards Esq under the direction of Zachary Bayley Edwards and George Goodin Barrett Esq.s as attornies. Account filed by John Jones for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793. Brampton Bryan and Bryan Castle estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 87-88
1794
[Name] Brampton Bryan Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Bryan Edwards Esq under the direction of George Goodin Barrett Esq as attorney. Account filed by John Jones as overseer for the period 31/12/1793 to 09/08/1794 and William Jenkins as oveseer for the period 09/08/1794 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 191
1797
[Name] Brampton Bryan Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Jenkins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 59
1798
[Name] Brampton Bryan Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Bryan Edwards Esq. Account filed by John Gibb book keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 246
1799
[Name] Brampton-Bryan  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawney as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1803
[Name] Brampton Bryan Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum and pimento  
 

Belonging to Bryan Edwards, Esq, deceased. Account given in the name of John Shand of the parish of St Catherine, late one of the attorneys of John Simpson of the Kingdom of Great Britain, acting trustee under the will of the said Bryan Edwards.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 22
1807
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old brass and old copper  
 

Belonging to Alexander Donaldson Esq. Account filed by William Miller as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 99
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Stock] -  
 

Registered to William Millar.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Trel.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton-Bryan  
 

Registered to Grant and Green. Page torn, no number of stock.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 247(Tot) 129(F) 118(M)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
 

In the possession of Alexander Grant, John Meek, and Joseph Green as Executors and Trustees of Alexander Donaldson deceased.

 
T71/226 1047-1056
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Stock] 278  
 

Registered to Meek and Green Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Stock] 34  
 

Registered to Meek and Green Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot) 132(F) 123(M)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan Estate  
 

In the possession of John Meek and Jospeh Green as Executors and Trustees of Alexander Donaldson deceased.

 
T71/231 [unpaginated]
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Stock] 262  
 

Registered to Meek and Green Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan Estate  
 

In the possession of Joseph Green & William Miller as Managers appointed by the Court of Chancery in England and confirmed by the Court of Chancery in Jamaica in cause of Grant vs. Meek & of the Trust Estate of Alexander Donaldson deceased. Registered in Trelawney in 1820 by John Meek & Joseph Green Esquires as Trustees & Executors of the late Alexander Donaldson Esquire.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Stock] 222  
 

Registered to Green and Miller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 276(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Stock] 196  
 

Registered to James and William Miller Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery in England & confirmed by the Court of Chancery in Jamaica in the Cause of Grant vs Meek & the Trust Estate of Alexander Donaldson decased.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to heirs of A. Donaldson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 279(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Stock] 202  
 

Registered to heirs of A. Donaldson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 280(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery in England and confirmed by the Court of Chancery in Jamaica in the cause of Grant vs Meek and the Trust Estate of Alexander Donaldson deceased.

 
T71/239 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 285(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to heirs of Alexander Donaldson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Stock] 209  
 

Registered to heirs of A. Donaldson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 277(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to heirs of A. Donaldson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] Brampton Bryan Estate  
 

In the possession of The Honorable William Miller as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery in England and confirmed by the Court of Chancery in Jamaica in the cause of Grant vs. Meek and the Trust Estate of Alexander Donaldson deceased.

 
T71/242 89-90