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Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
1817 [EA] - → Owner
John Thomas Bell

Estate Information (4)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot) 6(F) 9(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Thomas Bell as owner.

 
T71/1 87-88
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 17(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to John Thomas Bell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 8(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to John Thomas Bell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
 

On 9 May 1823 John Thomas Bell manumitted Ann Bell at the cost of £135.

 
List of Jamaican Manumissions of 1825 in the Public Records Office.