Arthur's Seat

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  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1803 [EA] - → Trustee
1803 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Previous owner
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1830 [EA] - → Not known

Estate Information (21)

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1798
[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.
1803
[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
1809
[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.
1811
[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.
1815
[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.
1817
[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.

 
T71/57 526-531
1817
[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.
1819
[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.
1820
[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.

 
T71/58 80-81
1820
[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.
1821
[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.
1823
[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.

 
T71/59 47
1823
[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.
1825
[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.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

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

 
T71/60 60
1826
[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.
1827
[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.
1828
[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.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 251(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

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

 
T71/61 46
1830
[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
1830
[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.