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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
1774 [EA] - → Owner
1777 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Previous owner
1790 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner
1815 [EA] - 1835 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Other
1834 [EA] - → Other

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£3,783 1S 8D

Estate Information (47)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 164  
 

Listed as belonging to John Sill with 3 men bearing arms and 0 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 122 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1777
[Name] Providence  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Sill Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richard McSherry as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 122
1778
[Name] Providence  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Sell Esq. deceased. Account fild by Richard McSherry as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 49
1784
[Name] Providence Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of John Sill Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 41
1786
[Name] Providence Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Sill Esq deceased; account filed by Leonard Parkinson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 193
1786
[Name] Providence Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of John Sill Esq deceased; account filed by Leonard Parkinson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 149
1787
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, pimento, hire of enslaved people  
 

The property of the heirs of John Sill Esq deceased; account filed by Leonard Parkinson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 210
1788
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some mules and cattle, timber  
 

Account filed by Leonard Parkinson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 95-96 [f.49]
1790
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, copper, cattle, mules, hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by Leonard Parkinson attorney to John Sill properietor of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 425-426
1791
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Wiggan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 246-247
1792
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Wiggan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 216
1793
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by John Wiggan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 415 [f.208]
1793
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Leonard Parkinson as attorney for the estate for the period 01/01/1793 to 29/08/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 9-10
1794
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Sill esq. Account filed by William Dawson as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 157
1795
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Sill Esq. Account filed by William Dawson as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 226
1796
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Sell? Esq. Account filed by William Dawson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, coffee, fustick, fire wood  
 

Account filed by William Dawson for the period 31/12/1796 to 31/12/1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 59
1798
[Name] Providence  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pasturage  
 

Account filed by Leonard Parkinson as attorney for the estate for the period 25/07/1798 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 86
1799
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Account filed by William Thomson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 80-81
1799
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Sill Esq. Account filed by Thomas Vernon as overseer for the period 22/06/1799 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 198
1799
[Name] Providence  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and a windmill 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
[Number of enslaved people] 249(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with John Sill as the proprietor.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 27. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1801
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Price. Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 202
1804
[Name] Providence Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, cows and calves steers, hire of mulatto Killy, hire of Nancy, mules, jobbing  
 

Owner not given. Account filed by Ralph Parkinson who has the care of the estate (status not given).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 133
1807
[Name] Providence  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee and livestock  
 

Account filed by William Norman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 86
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 59  
 

Registered to John Sill deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.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] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 61  
 

Registered to John Sill deceased.

 
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] 207(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 123  
 

Registered to Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot) 109(F) 88(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Allen as attorney to Ann Hill.

 
T71/203 254-258
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 166  
 

Registered to Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Allen as Attorney to Ann Sill, the owner.

 
T71/207 60-61
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 169  
 

Registered to Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Name] Providence  
 

Registered to Ann Sill. Number of enslaved unclear as page is torn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Allen as Attorney to Ann Sill, the owner.

 
T71/211 223
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 167  
 

Registered to Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 164  
 

Registered to Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William King as Attorney to Ann Sill.

 
T71/215 3-4
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 171  
 

Registered to Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 62  
 

Registered to Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
 

Registered to Ann Sill. Number of stock unclear as page is torn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Appleton as Attorney for Ann Sill. "registered in 1826 by William King as Attorney to Ann Sill.".

 
T71/219 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 78  
 

Registered to Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 161  
 

Registered to Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William King Esq as Attorney to Miss Ann Sill.

 
T71/222 384
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
[Stock] 37  
 

Registered to Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Providence  
[Size] 1308  
 

Registered to heirs of Ann Sill.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.