Master's Estate

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Associated People (7)

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
1804 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Owner
1809 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1830 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
1834 [EA] - → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£3,421 13S 4D

Notes

Possibly the unnamed estate in St Dorothy shown as owned by Thomas Masters c. 1710-1749, Bristol Archives Ref. 43049/3.


Sources

https://www.bristol.gov.uk/documents/20182/239473/Guide%20to%20A%20C%20sources%20final%20high%20res%20version%2019%20sep%2008_0.pdf/6a8ff84d-c76b-43b0-b5a3-b5a60fc57d2 [accessed 12/12/2016].


Estate Information (34)

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1752
[Name] Masters  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Account filed by Richard Pembridge as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 153-154
1753
[Name] Master's  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Account filed by Richard Pembridge as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 157
1756
[Name] Master's Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Duar, Overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 35
1757
[Name] Master's Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Duan, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 53-54
1758
[Name] Masters Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Duan, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 86
1759
[Name] Masters Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Duar, Overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 137
1761
[Name] Masters Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Matthew Breary.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 214
1762
[Name] Masters  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Goode as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 28
1763
[Name] Masters  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Goode as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 58
1798
[Name] Masters  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Dorothy as a sugar estate with a cattlemill 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.
1803
[Name] Martins[?] Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Jackson Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by William Jackson as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 72
1804
[Name] Masteres Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Jackson, Esq, of Great Britain. Account given in the names of William Pearson and William Jackson, Esqs, attornies to said estate. Account filed by Wiliiam Jackson, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 191
1807
[Name] Masteres  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Account filed by Alexander Lumsden, a planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 127
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
[Name] Masters  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] Masters  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Masters  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 119  
 

Registered to the estate of William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Masters  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 127  
 

Registered to the estate of William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot) 102(F) 111(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as attorney to Elizabeth Bogle French.

 
T71/13 50-54
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Masters'  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to the estate of William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney to Mrs Elizabeth Bogle French.

 
T71/14 61-62
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Masters'  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to the estate of William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)  
[Name] Masters  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 75  
 

Registered to the estate of William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot) 102(F) 113(M)  
[Name] Masters Estate  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney to Mrs Elizabeth Bogle French.

 
T71/15 202
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Master's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 58  
 

Registered to the estate of William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Master's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to the estate of William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot) 101(F) 110(M)  
[Name] Masters Estate  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney of Elizabeth Bogle French.

 
T71/16 151-152
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Master's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to the estate of William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Master's  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stivdor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Bayley Esq as Attorney of Mrs E B French.

 
T71/17 21-22
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Masters'  
[Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar.  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to the estate of Elizabeth B. French.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot)  
[Name] Master's Estate  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to the estate of Elizabeth B. French.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Master's Estate  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Elizabeth B. French.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot) 85(F) 101(M)  
[Name] Masters Estate  
 

In the possession of William Jackson but was in possession of Alexander Bayley Esq decd as Attorney.

 
T71/18 325
1839
[Name] Masters  
[Size] 1066  
 

Registered to William Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Dorothy.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.