Arthur's Seat

[Name] Arthurs-Seat  
[Crop] Sugar  

Plotted In Clarendon as a sugar estate with a watermill 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.

[Name] Arthurs Seat Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

Belonging to Arthur MacKenzie, deceased, from the date of his death, 2 Sep 1802. Account filed by Henry Dawkins MacKenzie, one of the trustees of the deceased.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 22

[Number of enslaved people] 291(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat and Inverness  
[Stock] 202  

Registered to Arthur McKenzie deceased.

Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Clarend.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 299(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat etc.  
[Stock] 211  

Registered to Arthur McKenzie deceased.

Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cla.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 152  

Registered to Lowbridge & Bright by their attorney.

Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 227(Tot) 113(F) 114(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of William Shand as attorney to Richard Bright the proprietor.

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[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 154  

Registered to Lowbridge & Bright by their attorney.

Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 237(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 46  

Registered to Lowbridge and R. Bright.

Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot) 118(F) 112(M)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat Estate  

In the possession of an attorney to Richard Bright surviving co-partner of Lowbridge Bright. Registered by William Shand.

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[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 91  

Registered to Lowbridge and Bright.

Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 134  

Registered to Richard Bright.

Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot) 137(F) 135(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of James Corne Pownall as attorney to Richard Bright, surviving partner and executor of L. & B. Bright. Presumed to be an amalgamation of the numbers of enslaved people on both Inverness and Arthur's Seat estates.

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[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 143  

Registered to Richard Bright.

Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 277(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat and Pen  
[Stock] 242  

Registered to Richard Bright.

Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of Alexander Bayley Esquire as attorney of Richard Bright Esquire.

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[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 63  

Registered to Richard Bright.

Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 73  

Registered to Richard Bright.

Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 280(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 74  

Registered to Richard Bright.

Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29clarvere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 251(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  

In the possession of Alexander Bayley Esquire as attorney to Richard Bright Esquire.

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[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  

127 enslaved people were bought by Rose Price in 1830 and transferred to Worthy Park . This transaction is recorded in Craton and Walvin, Worthy Park p. 187 and sourced to IRO Deeds 801/83: the 127 enslaved people were bought for £6,100. It is not clear whether Rose Price bought the whole estate or just the enslaved people.

Michael Craton and James Walvin, A Jamaican Plantation. The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970 (W.H. Allen, London and New York, 1970) pp. 187, 196

[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot)  
[Name] Arthur's Seat  
[Stock] 87  

Registered to Richard Bright.

Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.