Kays

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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
- 1740 [LA] → Previous owner

Gauci has taken this information from Peter Beckford's estate inventories.

1770 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Previous owner
1782 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Owner

Shown as William Beckford Esq., but known to have been one of the Clarendon estates of Alderman William Beckford, father of William Thomas Beckford.


Estate Information (29)

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1740
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
 

The inventory of Peter Beckford's estate gave the value of the stock as £3,934 Jamaican pounds. The value of the crop return was given as £1,952 Jamaican pounds.

 
Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.44
1740
[Name] Kays  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late Peter Beckford Esq. Senior and his copartners. Account filed by William Beckford. The estates of Retreat, Kays, Malmsey Valley, Crofts, Rock River, Lime Hall, Danks, Petersfield, Shrewsbury, Roaring River, Hatfield, Smithfield, Barbadoes Valley, Lewis's Crawle, Beckford & Forbes Plantation, Seven Mile Walk, Dirty Pitt Pen, Dry sugar Work Pen, Two Mile Wood Pen, Bodles Pen, Withy Wood Pen and Esher were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 76
1740
[Name] Kays  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late Peter Beckford Esq. Senior and his copartners. Account filed by Richard Beckford Esq. attorney to Mrs. Bathshua Beckford and Mr. Julmes and Francis Beckford. The estates of Retreat, Kays, Malmsey Valley, Crofts, Rock River, Lime Hall, Danks, Petersfield, Shrewsbury, Roaring River, Hatfield, Smithfield, Barbadoes Valley, Lewis's Crawle, Beckford & Forbes Plantation, Seven Mile Walk, Dirty Pitt Pen, Dry sugar Work Pen, Two Mile Wood Pen, Bodles Pen, Withy Wood Pen and Esher were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 79
1770
[Name] Kayes  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richard Lewing Esq. as one of the attorneys to the late William Beckford Esq. and since his decease one of the attorneys to the executor of the said William Beckford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 30
1771
[Name] Kayes  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased and under the care and direction of the Hon. Rose Herring May and Richard Lewing Esq. Account filed by John Mackenzie as overseer on Books Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 187
1772
[Name] Kayes  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased and under the care and direction of the Hon. Rose Herring May and Richard Lewing Esq. Account filed by John Mackenzie as overseer on Bodles (sp) Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 19
1773
[Name] Kayes  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by the Hon. Rose Herring as attorney to the executors and guardians appointed by the will of the late William Beckford Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 176
1774
[Name] Kayes  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Mackenzie as overseer on Bodles (sp) Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 244
1775
[Name] Kayes  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Walter Welch as overseer on Bodles (sp) Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 288
1776
[Name] Kayes  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Produce sent to Old Harbour Bay. Account filed by John Mackenzie of St. Dorothy.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 94
1778
[Name] Kayes  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Kittson as overseer on Bodles Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 55
1779
[Name] Kayes  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Kittson as overseer on Bodles Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 106
1779
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot)  
 
Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.148
1780
[Name] Kayes  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Kittson as overseer on Bodles Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 110
1782
[Name] Kays Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Beckford Esquire. Account filed by Thomas Kittson, overseer at Bodles Penn and keeper of stores. Rock River, Danks, Kays, Moors, and Retreat Estates ("produce of Clarendon Estates sent from Bodles Penn to Old Harbour Bay") all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 188-189
1783
[Name] Kayes  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Kittson as overseer on Bodles Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon. Danks, Moores, Retreat, Kayes and Rock River listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 115-6
1793
[Name] Keys's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by George Davidson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Retreat Estate, Keys's Estate, Moor Estate, and Bodles Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 90
1794
[Name] Keys's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by George Davidson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Retreat Estate, Keys's Estate, Moor Estate, and Bodles Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 54
1795
[Name] Kays's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by George Davidson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Kays's Estate, Retreat Estate and Moor Estate filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 147
1797
[Name] Kays's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by Hugh McGaan. Rock River Estate, Kays's Estate and Retreat Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 29-30
1797
[Name] Kays's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by William Burden. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Kays's Estate, Retreat Estate and Moor Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 30
1798
[Name] Kaye's Retreat  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John McLarty William Beckford Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 47
1798
[Name] Keys's  
[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.
1799
[Name] Kays's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by John McLarty. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Kays's Estate, Retreat Estate and Moor Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 102-103
1800
[Name] Kays's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by John McPherson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Kays's Estate, Retreat Estate and Moor Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 130
1801
[Name] Kays  
[Crop] sugar and rum (with the disposal of the same from Bogles Penn)  
 

The Clarendon estates of William Beckford. Account filed by John McPherson. Bogles Penn, Danks, Rock River, Kays and Moors filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 114
1803
[Name] Kays's  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by John McPherson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Kays's Estate, Retreat Estate and Moor Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 159-160
1807
[Name] Kays  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. of Great Britain with the disposal of the same from Bodles Penn Crop. Account filed by Matthew Hill. The estates of Danks, Rock River, Kays, Moores and Retreat were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 42589
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Kays  
[Stock] -  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
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.