Haughton Tower Estate

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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
1743 [SY] - 1812 [EY] → Owner
1760 [EA] - 1764 [LA] → Attorney

Although transcribed variously as Bern and Vern as well as Venn, this is recognisably Dr John Venn.

1765 [EA] - 1765 [LA] → Attorney
1815 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Other
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£4,474 10S 8D

Notes

See also JA19507 Haughton Tower for an estate with the same name registered to Montague James in 1774.


Estate Information (79)

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1743
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Belonging to Haughton James a minor. Account filed by John Leamy as overseer to the plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 56
1752
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Belonging to Mr. Haughton James a minor. Account filed by John Liamy.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 108
1753
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Belonging to Haughton James a minor. Account filed by John Leamy.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 154
1754
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Belonging to Haughton James a minor. Account filed by John Leamy.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 176
1755
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Haughton James, a minor. Account filed by John Leamy.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 7
1760
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esquire, under the care and direction of Montague James and John Vern, attornies to the said Haughton James. Account filed by James Williamson, bookeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 165
1761
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esquire, under the care and direction of the Honourable Montague James Esquire and the Reverend John Bern Attornies to Haughton James. Account filed by John Vern, clerk (sp?).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 210-211
1762
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by Simon Clarke Junior.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 35
1763
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by Simon Clarke Junior.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 52
1764
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by Reverend Mr. John Venn estate "under the care and direction of".

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 91
1765
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by Fergus Graham. The property under the care and direction of John Briscoe and James Cooper Lee.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4
1772
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by William Dwyer, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 209
1774
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by William Fleming as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 262
1775
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by William Fleming as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 22
1776
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by William Fleming as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 61
1778
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

As well as an account this entry consisted of a long note indictaing that Charles B. Whitehead appeared before the judge and swore that "in consequence of having for a considerable time past conducted the business of John Jarrett Esq. in the parish he hath several times appealed to William West late overseer of Haughton Tower estate the property of the late Montague James Esq. deceased to make and attest a just and true account of the sugar, rum or other produce made on the said Haughton Tower estate in trust to John Jarrett Esq. for the year 1780." John Josselyn was the book keeper or distiller on the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 194
1778
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by William Fleming as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 53
1779
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by William Fleming as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 144
1780
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esquire. Account filed by William Fleming, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 32
1781
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, horses  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esquire. Account filed by Peter Morrison, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 201
1781
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Beloning to Haughton James Esquire. Account filed by Peter Morrison, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 59
1781
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Mary James, disposed of by order of John Jariett esquire, trustee. Account filed by Richard McSherry, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 98
1782
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Bond.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 209
1783
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by Peter Morrison as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 150-1
1783
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by Thomas Bond as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 54
1784
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by Thomas Bond as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 181
1785
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Peter Morison, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 70
1786
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Haughton James Esq; account filed by Andrew Ballantine, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 107
1786
[Name] Houghton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Bond.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 184
1786
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Bond planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 147
1786
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq; account filed by Andrew Ballantine as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 180
1787
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
 

Accounts of Haughton Tower Estate (not crops)

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 97-102
1787
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq; account filed by Andrew Balleratine [Ballentine?] as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 196
1787
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Bond planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 216
1787
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Account filed by Francis Grant as attorney to Thomas Hankey Esquire the mortgagee in possession.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 183-191 f.93-97
1788
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Nicholas Sutherand planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 218-219 f.119
1788
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Andrew Ballantine as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 65-66
1789
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Robert Thomson planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 309-310
1789
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esquire. Account filed by Andrew Ballantine as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 342
1790
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esqire. Account filed by Andrew Ballantine as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 245 [f.123]
1790
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Robert Thomson planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 284-285
1791
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esquire. Account filed by Andrew Ballentine as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 211 [f.100]
1791
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] cattle  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esquire. Account filed by Ebenezer Muir as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 211-212 [f.100]
1791
[Name] Haughton Tour Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Robert Thomson planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 308
1792
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Haughton James Esquire. Account filed by Ebenezer Muir as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 158
1794
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Glassford Chalmer planter for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 195-196
1795
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of Haughton James Esq under the direction of John Graham Esq. Account filed by Glassford Chalmer as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 188
1795
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow  
 

Under the direction of John Graham esq attorney to Lady Clarke. Account filed by James Callander as overseer for the ending 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 232-233
1796
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account given by John Graham, attorney. Account filed by Thomas George Somerville, overseer.

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

Belonging to Lady Ann Clarke. Account given by John Graham, attorney. Account filed by James Callander, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Houghton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Lady Anne Clarke. Account given by John Graham, attorney. Account filed by James Callander, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 183
1797
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum,mules and hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account given by John Graham, attorney. Account filed by Thomas George Sommerville, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 185
1798
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of Haughton James Esq under the direction of John Graham Esq his attorney. Account filed by George Somerville as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 167
1799
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[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.
1800
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Haughton James Esq under the direction of Thomas James Esq his attorney. Account filed by James Puming as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 205
1803
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Haughton James Esq. Account filed by John Sutherland as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 110
1807
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Crop] sugar, rum, land rental, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of Haughton James Esq. and under the direction of his attorney William Rhodes James Esq. Account filed by William Kirkaldy as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 146
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 207  
 

Registered to Haughton James.

 
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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 265(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton-Tower  
[Stock] 187  
 

Registered to William Rhodes James.

 
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] 247(Tot) 137(F) 110(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Rhodes James as owner.

 
T71/190 404-410
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot) 20(F) 16(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Rhodes James under contract to purchase from Mrs Ann James Pawson [?] of Great Britain.

 
T71/190 603-604
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 204  
 

Registered to William Rhodes James.

 
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.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 265(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 150  
 

Registered to William Rhodes James.

 
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] 274(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Kirkaldy as attorney to William Rhodes James as owner. Large number of enslaved people purchased from Mrs Ann James Pardon[?] since 1817.

 
T71/191 329-331
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 197  
 

Registered to William Rhodes James.

 
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.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 84  
 

Registered to William Rhodes James.

 
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] 283(Tot) 158(F) 125(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Kirkaldy as the true and lawful attorney of William Rhodes James owner and an absentee from the island.

 
T71/192 273-274
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 223  
 

Registered to William Rhodes James.

 
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.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 279(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 209  
 

Registered to William Rhodes James.

 
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] 279(Tot) 157(F) 122(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Edward Payne as the true and lawful attorney of William Rhodes James as owner and an absentee from this island.

 
T71/193 400-401
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 278(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 83  
 

Registered to William Rhodes James.

 
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.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 282(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 186  
 

Registered to William Rhodes James.

 
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] 284(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 55  
 

Registered to William Rhodes James.

 
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] 276(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr and John Edward Bryne, as joint attorneys to William Rhodes James the owner.

 
T71/196 4
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to William R. James.

 
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] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to William R. James.

 
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] 254(Tot) 143(F) 111(M)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr and John E. Payne as joint attorneys to William Rhodes James the owner.

 
T71/199 18
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to William R. James.

 
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.
1839
[Name] Haughton Tower  
[Size] 1053  
 

Registered to William R. James.

 
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.