Shaw Park

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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
- 1834 [LA] → Owner
1792 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
1822 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Previous owner
1823 [EA] - → Owner
1826 [EA] - → Joint owner
1826 [EA] - → Joint owner
1839 [EA] - → Not known

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£3,142 0S 3D

Estate Information (25)

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1792
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 15  
 

Owned by John Shaw.

 
'A List of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly... transcribed from papers presented to the British Museum by Charles E. Long ref. Add. 12435' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/mstann1792.htm.
1798
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Ann 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to John Shaw.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Ann.htm. The 1811 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to John Shaw.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1810, hence the earlier transcription date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw-Park  
[Stock] 82  
 

Registered to John Shaw.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15ann.htm. The 1816 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1815, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 87  
 

Registered to John Shaw.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_02.htm. The 1817 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1816, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 93  
 

Registered to John Shaw.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al06.htm. The 1818 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1817, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot) 63(F) 54(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Shaw as owner.

 
T71/43 1042-1045
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 83  
 

Registered to John Shaw.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Shaw as proprietor and guardian or trustee.

 
T 71/44 570-572
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 78  
 

Registered to John Shaw.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 76  
 

Registered to the estate of John Shaw.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Elizabeth Olivia Leslie as owner.

 
T71/45 480-481
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] [torn]  
 

Registered to the estate of John Shaw.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 57  
 

Registered to the estate of John Shaw.

 
Jamaica Alamanc (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Walker as owner [132 enslaved people previously registered by E O Leslie in 1823 and have become the property of James Walker by marriage] [14 deaths].

 
T71/46 883-884
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to James Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 37  
 

Registered to James Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Walker as owner [increase of 25 enslaved people by transfer from St Mary's and by purchase at the Deputy Marshal's sale and 13 births].

 
T71/48 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 37  
 

Registered to James Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to James Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Walker as owner.

 
T71/50 772
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to James Walker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1836
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Size] 572  
[Crop] sugar, pimento  
 

A detailed plan of Shaw Park estate in 1836 gives the locations of different cane pieces, provision grounds, the great house, cemetery, enslaved people's houses and more.

 
1839
[Name] Shaw Park  
[Size] 660  
 

Registered to Richard Harrison.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.