Parnassus 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
1814 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
1757 [SY] - 1814 [EY] → Owner

Inherited Parnassus estate under the will of his brother James Dawkins (1722-1757).

1744 [SY] - 1757 [EY] → Owner
- 1744 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Trustee
1832 [EA] - → Trustee
1832 [EA] - → Trustee

Associated Claims (1)

£9,591 12S 5D

Notes

Absentee-owned from 1759 when Henry Dawkins II migrated from Jamaica to Britain.

The estate was 15 miles south of Friendship and Lucky Valley and was located on the flood plains of the Rio Minho. Higman notes that planter-historian Edward Long considered this part of Clarendon to be inferior to the upper parts of the parish. It was drier and less advantageous in terms of access to water supplies to power the mills. Most of the southern plantations of Clarendon continued to rely on cattle and wind power to run the mills. Parnassus was dominated by flat land which facilitated cane growing although it lacked the heights required for water to gain enough force to drive a mill. There were 15 cane fields shown on a map by James Cradock in 1758. Alongside this there were small fields under pasture around the works, gardens, stockyards, provision grounds, grass, waste lands and slave houses. There was also an area designated 'Land in possession of Free Negroes.'


Sources

B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), pp.95-6.


Estate Information (47)

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1744
[Number of enslaved people] 307(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
 

Bequeathed to James Dawkins (1722-1757) by his father Henry Dawkins I (1698-1744).

 
PROB 11/736/317; James Dawkins, The Dawkins Family in Jamaica and England, 1664-1833 (PhD thesis, UCL, 2017) chapter 1
1753
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

Estate belonging to James Dawkins Junior Esq. Account filed by John Shickle. The estates of James Dawkins Junior were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 155
1757
 

Bequeathed to Henry Dawkins II (1728-1814) by his brother James Dawkins (1722-1757).

 
PROB 11/835/259
1760
[Name] Parnassus Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates belonging to Henry Dawkins Esquire in Jamaica. Account filed by Charles Bosnell Esquire, one of the attorneys to the Honourable Henry Dawkins Esquire. Windsor plantation, Old Plantation, Friendship Plantation, Sutton Plantation, Parnassus Planatation, Caymanas Plantation, Magotty Plantation, Salt Ponds all filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 157
1761
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates belonging to Henry Dawkins Esquire in Jamaica. Account filed by Charles Bosnell Esquire, one of the attorneys to Henry Dawkins Esquire. Windsor, Old Plantation, Friendship, Sutton, Parnassus, Caymanas, Magotty, Salt Ponds all filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 195
1762
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates belonging to Henry Dawkins Esquire in Jamaica. Account filed by Charles Bosnell Esquire, one of the attorneys to Henry Dawkins Esquire. Windsor, Old Plantation, Friendship, Sutton, Parnassus, Caymanas, Trodways, Salt Ponds all filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 195
1765
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 127
1766
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 173
1771
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 10
1772
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 68
1773
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 91
1774
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 89
1775
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 105
1776
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 109
1777
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 148
1778
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 148
1779
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 147
1780
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Thomas Raymond as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 218
1781
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Thomas Raymond as clerk to Henry Dawkins.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 147
1783
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Thomas Raymond as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 9-10
1792
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Raymond attorney to Henry Dawkins Esquire. Parnassus, Old Plantation, Suttons, Friendship, Vere Estate and Windsor filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 267 [f.134]
1793
[Name] Parnassus Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Scott accomptant to the heirs of Henry Dawkins Esq deceased. Parnanssus, Old Plantation, Sutton, Friendship, Windsor estates filed together. Which parish is not stated

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 22
1795
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by John Scott accountant to Henry Dawkins Esq for the year ending 31/12/1795. Parnanssus, Old Plantation, Sutton, Friendship, Windsor estates filed together. Only crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 66
1797
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle and horses  
 

Account filed by David Falconer as accountant to the attornies of Henry Dawkins Esq for the year to 31/12/1797. Parnanssus, Old Plantation, Sutton, Friendship, Windsor and Vere estates filed together. Only crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 17
1798
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Vere 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.
1803
[Name] Parnassus Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Henry Dawkins Esq. Account filed by Wm Ayton his accomptant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 67
1804
[Name] Parnasuss Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed in the name of John Maughan, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 195
1807
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] sugar, rum, wainage, livestock, carriage, corn, beef, oil, boards and manumission of a female slave  
 

Property of Henry Dawkins Esq. Account presented by John Maughan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 202-203
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 602(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Henry Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Clarend.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] 400(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
[Stock] 395  
 

Registered to James Dawkins, attorney.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 576(Tot) 307(F) 269(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Francis Graham and William Shand as attorneys to James Dawkins the owner.

 
T71/57 460-483
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 473(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
[Stock] 305  
 

Registered to James Dawkins, attorney.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 590(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 579(Tot) 311(F) 268(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of The Honble William Shand and Malcolm McLeod as attornies for James Dawkins Esquire.

 
T71/58 139-140
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 585(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 581(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
[Stock] 237  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 572(Tot) 302(F) 270(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Williams and Malcolm McLeod Esquires as attornies of James Dawkins, Esquire.

 
T71/59 147-148
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 571(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
[Stock] 224  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 562(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 560(Tot) 290(F) 270(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Hewitt Esquire as attorney for the trustees of James Dawkins Esquire.

 
T71/60 125
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 561(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 546(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29clarvere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 547(Tot) 293(F) 254(M)  
[Name] Parnassus  
 

In the possession of William Hewitt Esquire as attorney to the trustees of James Dawkins Esquire.

 
T71/61 108
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 527(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 540(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 535(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus Estate  
 

In the possession of Thomas James Bernard and Walter George Stewart as attornies of the Rt Honble. Lord Viscount Downe, Sir George Francis Hampton Bart and Sir William Henry Cooper, trustees of James Dawkins.

 
T71/64 106
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 538(Tot)  
[Name] Parnassus  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Claren.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.