Taylor's Caymanas

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Associated People (13)

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
1753 [EA] - → Previous owner
1781 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Previous owner
1795 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Attorney
1795 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Owner
1807 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner
1815 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Other

Previous owner of enslaved people on this estate.

1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Receiver
1826 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Attorney
1827 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Not known
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£2,514 4S 1D

Estate Information (39)

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1752
[Name] [no name given]  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and sundry items  
 

Estate of George Hanbury Taylor. Account of the rents, produce and profits of the estate come to the hands of Patrick Taylor only acting executor to the last will and testament of the said George Hanbury Taylor deceased and guardian of his children. Account filed by the said Patrick Taylor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 115
1753
[Name] [no name given]  
[Crop] Fish, corn and cocoa nuts  
 

Estate of George Hanbury Taylor deceased. Account of the rents, produce and profits of the estate come to the hands of Patrick Taylor executor of the last will and testament of the said George Hanbury Taylor. Account filed by the said Patrick Taylor. The estates of George Hanbury Taylor including this one and Caymanas were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 168
1753
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Estate of George Hanbury Taylor deceased. Account of the rents, produce and profits of the estate come to the hands of Patrick Taylor executor of the last will and testament of the said George Hanbury Taylor. Account filed by the said Patrick Taylor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 168
1781
[Name] Taylor's Camanas Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The Estate of John Hanbury Taylor Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Kelly, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 41-42
1782
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, sheep, goats, pigs, corn  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by John Kelly, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 187
1783
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, corn.  
 

Account filed by John Kelly as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 25
1784
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Kelly as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 208
1786
[Name] Taylors Caymanas Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Kelly, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 138
1787
[Name] Taylors Caymanas Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Kelly, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 120
1787
[Name] Taylors Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Filed for 1 Jan 1787 to 18 Aug 1787. Account filed by John Kelly as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 71
1788
[Name] Taylors Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum, corn, cattle  
 

Belonging to John Hanbury Taylor Esquire deceased and in the possession of William Mitchell Esquire his trustee, executor and residuary devisee. Account filed by Lewis MacKenzie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 345-346
1789
[Name] Taylors Caymanna's  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of John Hanbury Taylor Esquire deceased in the possession of William Mitchell his trustee and acting executor. Account filed by Lewis McKenzie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 340
1790
[Name] Taylors Caymana  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of John Hanbury Taylor Esquire deceased in the possession of William Mitchell Esquire his trustee and acting executor of the estate. Account filed by Lewis McKenzie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 267 [f.133
1791
[Name] Taylors Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle and mules  
 

The property of Will.m Mitchell Esquire deceased in the possession of Charles Mitchell Esquire. Account filed by Lewis MacKenzie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 379 [f.185]
1795
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, wood, corn  
 

Property of George Hanbury Mitchell under the care and direction of Charles Mitchell of the parish of St Andrew his attorney. Account filed by said Charles Mitchell for the year ending 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 228-229
1796
[Name] Taylors Caymanas Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lewis Mackenzie, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1798
[Name] Taylors-Caymanas  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Catherine 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.
1807
[Name] Taylors Caymana's  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Charles Mitchell Esq. Account filed by John Gaynor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 38-39
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Mitchell's Caymanas  
[Stock] 112  
 

Registered to (trustees of) C. Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Mitchell's Caymanas  
[Stock] 96  
 

Registered to (trustees of) C. Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
 

Registered to Gilbert Mathison.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot) 131(F) 135(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Hamilton as attorney to Gilbert Mathison owner.

 
T71/1 494-503
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Stock] 127  
 

Registered to Gilbert Mathison[?].

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Stock] 101  
 

Registered to Gilbert Mathison.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Hamilton as attorney to Gilbert Mathison Esquire.

 
T71/2 163-164
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Stock] 106  
 

Registered to Gilbert Mathison.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Stock] 242  
 

Registered to Gilbert Mathison.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 293(Tot) 145(F) 148(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Gilbert Mathison Esquire as proprietor. Registered by John Randall Phillips as attorney. 24 enslaved people removed from St Andrew, mostly by purchase from Robert Fleming.

 
T71/3 193
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Stock] 227  
 

Registered to Gilbert Matheson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Stock] 75  
 

Registered to Gilbert Matheson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 259(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Isaac Higgin (now off the Island) as Receiver in the cause of Irving vs Matheson by Alexander Pearson. Delivered to Isaac Higgin as receiver by John Randall Phillips attorney to Gilbert Mathison and by him registered in 1823.

 
T71/5 734
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Stock] 80  
 

Registered to Thomas Higgin.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 259(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to Thomas ?W. Higgin.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29cathjohn.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 291(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Duncan Cameron Esq as attorney to Isaac Higgin the receiver in Chancery.

 
T71/8 299
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to Isaac Higgin.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to Isaac Higgin.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 237(Tot) 121(F) 116(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Pearson as attorney.

 
T71/12 135
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 237(Tot)  
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to James Ewing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Taylor's Caymanas  
[Size] 2900  
 

Registered to Alexander Pearson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Catherin.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.