Balcarres Plantation

Estate Details


Associated People (9)

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
25/03/1825 [SD] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1803 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Overseer
1809 [EA] - 25/03/1825 [ED] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Other

Sold enslaved people from St Andrew to this estate between 1820 and 1823.

1826 [EA] - → Other

Sold enslaved people to this estate.

1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1839 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£2,928 11S 0D

Notes

Presumably the firms Adams, Robertson & Co. and Robertson, Brother & Co. managed the estate but they have not been identified.


Estate Information (22)

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1803
[Name] Balcarres Plantation  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Account filed in the name of George Oliver, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 50
1807
[Name] Balcarres  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Account filed by George Oliver as overseer. Filed for 1806 & 1807 (not separated).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 11
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to (Earl of) Balcarres.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11George.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] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to (Earl of) Balcarres.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812and.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to Adams, Robertson & Co..

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15geor.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)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to Adams, Robertson, & Co.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al12.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) 68(F) 62(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Greenfield as Attorney of the Right Honorable the Earl Balcarres an absentee.

 
T71/158 467
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 65  
 

Registered to Adams, Robertson & Co..

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 69  
 

Registered to Adams, Robertson & Co..

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot) 61(F) 51(M)  
[Name] Balcarres Plantation  
 

In the possession of James Greenfield & George Atkinson as attorneys to the Right Honorable the Earl Balcarres.

 
T71/159 289
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 733  
 

Registered to Adams Robertson & Co.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot) 94(F) 76(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Atkinson as Attorney to the Right Honorable the Earl of Balcarres. Increase of 39 enslaved people by purchase from Dr H Spalding & by him returned in Saint Andrew in 1820.

 
T71/160 458
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 51  
 

Registered to Robertson, Brother, and Co..

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 62  
 

Registered to Brother Robertson and Co.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot) 191(F) 78(M)  
[Name] Balcarres  
 

In the possession of George Atkinson as Attorney to the Earl of Balcarres. Increase of 20 enslaved people by purchase, registered last by R. Hamilton in St George. Decrease of 6 enslaved people by transportation.

 
T71/161 108
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 46  
 

Registered to Earl of Balcarres.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29portgeorg.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot) 102(F) 72(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Atkinson Esquire as Attorney to the Earl of Balcarres.

 
T71/162 13
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 41  
 

Registered to Earl of Balcarres.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Balcarres  
[Stock] 58  
 

Registered to Earl of Balcarres.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot) 99(F) 72(M)  
[Name] Balcarres Plantation  
 

In the possession of Robert Fairweather as Attorney to the Earl of Balcarres.

 
T71/163 124
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Balacarres  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to Earl of Balcarres.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Balcarres  
[Size] 1360  
 

Registered to Richard Lewis, attorney.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.