Elmwood / Long Bay

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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
1800 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Executor
1800 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Previous owner
1810 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
1815 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Overseer
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner

Not clear if she owned the estate or some of the enslaved people

1823 [EA] - → Receiver
1823 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Previous owner
1826 [EA] - → Receiver
1829 [EA] - → Receiver
1832 [EA] - → Receiver
1837 [EA] - 1837 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£5,855 11S 6D

Estate Information (40)

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1786
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William State or Slate, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 105
1786
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by William Slater as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 176
1787
[Name] Longbay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, 2 horses  
 

Account filed by William Slate as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 76
1788
[Name] Long Bay Estates  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by William Slate as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 331 f. 175
1789
[Name] Long Bay  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper  
 

Account filed by William Slate as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 414-415 f.205
1790
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Mein as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 311 [f.155]
1792
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Keir as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 248-249
1793
[Name] Long Bay  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Mein as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 42
1794
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, old copper  
 

Account filed by John Mein as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 166
1795
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Mein as overseer for the period 31/12/1794 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 214
1796
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Mein, overseer.

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

Owner not given. Account filed by John Mein, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 206
1798
[Name] Long Bay  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Mein(?).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 19-20
1798
[Name] Long Bay  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with a cattle mill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica. Assumed to be Elmwood as it is situated as the same place on the sugar estates map from 1890.

 
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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Mein as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 30
1800
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of James Bryan deceased. Account filed by Francis King, acting Exor to the Estate of James Bryan deceased. Account filed by Robert Thomas Hassell as overseer. Accounts filed for 1799-1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 115-116
1801
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Estate of James Bryan deceased. Account filed by Francis King (the overseer of said Estate being dead and the bookkeeper discharged) being the only Acting Exor of Estate of James Bryan deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 231
1803
[Name] Long Bay  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Florened McCarthy as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 93
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 313(Tot)  
[Name] Elmwood  
[Stock] 114  
 

Registered to George Panton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] Elmwood  
[Stock] 44  
 

Registered to George Panton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1811.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 314(Tot)  
[Name] Elmwood  
[Stock] 123  
 

Registered to George Panton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1815.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 313(Tot)  
[Name] Elmwood  
[Stock] 134  
 

Registered to George Panton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1817.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 315(Tot) 153(F) 163(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Panton as owner and in right of Rebecca Brooks Panton his wife.

 
T71/145 609-617
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 314(Tot)  
[Name] Elmwood  
[Stock] 51  
 

Registered to George Panton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1819.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 315(Tot)  
[Name] Elm Wood  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to George Panton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1820.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 315(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Panton as owner.

 
T71/146 349-351
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 318(Tot)  
[Name] Elmwood  
[Stock] 135  
 

Registered to George Panton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1821.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 331(Tot)  
[Name] Elm Wood  
[Stock] 104  
 

Registered to George Panton deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1823.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 314(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hugh Speed as Receiver.

 
T71/147 277-278
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 325(Tot)  
[Name] Elm Wood  
[Stock] 89  
 

Registered to George Panton deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1825.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 330(Tot)  
[Name] Elm Wood  
[Stock] 85  
 

Registered to George Panton deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1826.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 318(Tot)  
[Name] Elmwood Plantation  
 

In the possession of George Bryan Panton Esq decd as Receiver of Elmwood Plantation belonging to the Estate of George Panton Esq decd.

 
T71/148 259-260
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 333(Tot)  
[Name] Elm Wood  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to George Panton deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1827.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 325(Tot)  
[Name] Elm Wood  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to George Panton deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1828.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] Elmwood Plantation  
 

In the possession of John Fowles as Receiver of Elmwood Plantation, belonging to the Estate of George Panton decd.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 317(Tot)  
[Name] Elm Wood  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to George Panton deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1830
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 323(Tot)  
[Name] Elm Wood  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to George Panton deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1831.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 646(Tot)  
[Name] Elm Wood  
[Stock] 80  
 

Registered to George Panton deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1832.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Edward Panton as receiver. Total number of enslaved people not given but equal numbers of increase and decrease so assumed to be 309.

 
T71/150 389
1839
[Name] Elmwood  
[Size] 1169  
 

Registered to heirs of George Panton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thoseast.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1839.