Riley's 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
1778 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

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£2,302 14S 3D

Estate Information (46)

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1778
[Name] Riley's  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Samuel Riley Esq. Under the instruction of Richard Wall Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 85
1785
[Name] Riley's Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Samuel Riley Esq; account filed by Leonard Parkinson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 80
1786
[Name] Riley's Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Samuel Riley Esq; account filed by Leonard Parkinson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 192
1786
[Name] Rileys Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Samuel Riley Esq; account filed by Leonard Parkinson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 148
1787
[Name] Riley's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of Samuel Riley Esq; account filed by Christopher Parkinson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 220-221
1788
[Name] Rileys Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of Samuel Riley Esquire. Account filed by Christopher Parkinson as overseer

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 73-74 [f.37]
1789
[Name] Rileys Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Samuel Riley Esquire. Account filed by Christ.r Parkinson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 243 f.123
1790
[Name] Rileys  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of Samuel Riley Esquire. Account filed by Christoper Parkinson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 223 [f.112]
1791
[Name] Rileys  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Samuel Riley Esquire. Account filed by Chris"r Parkinson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 251 [f.120]
1792
[Name] Riley's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Samuel Riley Esquire. Account filed by Jahlul Bunton as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 298-299
1793
[Name] Riley's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Samuel Riley Esquire. Account filed by Jahlul Bunton as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/08/1792 to 01/08/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 304
1793
[Name] Rileys  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Samuel Riley Esq. Account filed by Robert Lamont as overseer for the period 01/06/1793 to 01/06/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 164-165
1795
[Name] Rileys Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Filed for 1794-1795. Belonging to Samuel Riley Esq. Account filed by Robert Lamont, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1796
[Name] Rileys Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Lamont, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 87
1797
[Name] Rileys Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Owner not given. Account filed by Robert Lamont, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 136
1798
[Name] Riley's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of the Samuel Riley Esq. Account filed by James Walker for the period 08/10/1797 to 08/10/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 180
1798
[Name] Riley's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee  
 

Account filed by Colin Campbell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 18
1799
[Name] Riley's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of the Samuel Riley Esq. Account filed by John Grant [or Colin Grant] as overseer for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 136
1799
[Name] Rileys  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Ripleys  
 

Registered in Hanover to Samuel Ryley with 109 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 25.
1800
[Name] Rileys Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Samuel Riley Esq. Account filed by Colin Grant as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 222
1801
[Name] Rileys Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Samuel Riley of the Kingdom of Great Britain Esq. Given in by order of Patrick Gray and Thomas Addison Esquires, Attornies for said plantation. Account filed by Colin Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 99
1803
[Name] Rileys Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Samuel Riley Esq of Great Britain on the order of Patrick Gray and Thomas Addison attornies for the plantation. Account filed by Colin Grant as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 151-152
1807
[Name] Rileys  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock and cocoa  
 

Belonging to Samuel Riley Esq. of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account given in by Thomas Addison Esq. and William Reid as attornies and filed by James McKenzie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 86-87
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Rileys  
[Stock] 159  
 

Registered to Samuel Riley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.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] 122(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 88  
 

Registered to Samuel Riley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 178  
 

Registered to Samuel Riley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 166  
 

Registered to Samuel Riley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot) 65(F) 65(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Joseph Robert Bowen as attorney to Samuel Riley Esq.

 
T71/190 618-621
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 118  
 

Registered to Samuel Riley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 118  
 

Registered to Samuel Riley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot) 66(F) 64(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of P.A. Scarlett as attorney to Samuel Riley.

 
T71/191 528-529
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to Samuel Riley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 94  
 

Registered to Samuel Riley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Philip Anglin Scarlett as attorney of Samuel Riley

 
T71/192 428
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 112  
 

Registered to Thomas Parker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to Thomas Parker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot) 60(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Rileys Estate  
 

In the possession of James Lawson as attorney to Thomas Parker as owner. Returned last by Philip Anglin Scarlett as attorney to Samuel Riley since deceased.

 
T71/193 367-369
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to Thomas Parker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Thomas Parker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot) 57(F) 62(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Lawson as attorney of Thomas Parkes Esquire owner

 
T71/197 18
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 49  
 

Registered to Thomas Parker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 131  
 

Registered to Thomas Parker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Name] Riley's  
[Stock] 83  
 

Registered to Thomas Parker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot)  
[Name] Rileys Estate  
 

In the possession of George Hibbert Oates as attorney to Thomas Parker Esq. owner.

 
T71/199 154
1839
[Name] Rileys  
[Size] 552  
 

Registered to Thomas Parker.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.