Woodside Plantation

Estate Details


Associated People (8)

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
- 1800 [EY] → Owner
1800 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Annuitant
1803 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner
1815 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
1829 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Previous owner
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee

Associated Claims (1)

£3,177 18S 5D

Estate Information (24)

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1803
[Name] Woodside Plantation  
[Crop] Coffee, hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Wilson [Neilson?], Esq, deceased. Account filed by Thomas Courtenay, overseer for said estate. Hire of enslaved people "for sundry labour", carpenters at �40 each for 4 months, mason for 265 days, 200 enslaved people for 1 day at �25 (2s 6d each)

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 14
1807
[Name] Woodside  
[Crop] Coffee, hire of enslaved people including mason hire  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Nelson Esq. deceased. Account filed by Alexander Paterson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 66
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 74  
 

Registered to John Neilson deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to John Nelson deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 142  
 

Registered to W. J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 126  
 

Registered to W. J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot) 78(F) 72(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William John Neilson, owner.

 
T 71/33 197-204
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 120  
 

Registered to W. J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 112  
 

Registered to W. J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot) 87(F) 72(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William John Neilson, owner.

 
T 71/34 178-178v
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 90  
 

Registered to W. J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot) 93(F) 80(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William John Neilson, owner [increase by births].

 
T 71/35 348-349
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to William J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 67  
 

Registered to William J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot) 97(F) 88(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William John Neilson, owner [increase by births].

 
T 71/36 244-245
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 84  
 

Registered to William J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to William J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 98  
 

Registered to William J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot) 86(F) 86(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

George William Mackay and Barnaby Maddan, executors of William John Neilson, deceased [decrease by transfer to Mrs Jane E Neilson after the death of her husband, being her private property].

 
T 71/39 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 83  
 

Registered to estate of W. J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 97  
 

Registered to estate of W. J. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot) 97(F) 88(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Messrs. Barnaby Maddan and George William Mackay, executors of the late William John Neilson, deceased [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/42 85
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)  
[Name] Woodside  
[Stock] 99  
 

Registered to estate of J. W. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Woodside  
[Size] 734  
 

Registered to estate of J. W. Neilson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.