Associated People (4) |
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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:
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1741 [EA] - 1743 [LA] → Owner
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1783 [EA] - 1785 [LA] → Owner
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1791 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Previous owner
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1817 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
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Estate Information (24) |
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1741
[Name] Porus
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Estate of James Eggan Esq. Account filed by George Mackenzie.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 151
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1742
[Name] Porus
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, livestock and hire of enslaved people Estate of James Egan Esq. Account filed by George McKenzie attorney to the said James Egan Esq.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 8
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1743
[Name] Porus
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Estate of James Egan Esq. Account filed by George McKenzie attorney to the said James Egan Esq.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 90-91
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1781
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of George Logan Esquire. Account filed by Alexander Farquhar, attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 66
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1783
[Name] Porus
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle The property of George Egan. Account filed by John Scott as accomptant to the estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 50
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1784
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Property of George Logan Esquire. Account filed by Peter Smith, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 55
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1785
[Name] Porus
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle The property of George Egan. Account filed by Peter Smith as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 28
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1786
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Peter Smith as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 181-182
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1789
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, mules and horses Account filed by Charles Ruddack as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 215 f.109
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1790
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by John Scott as accountant to the estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 412
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1791
[Name] Pores Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of the devisees of the James Egan Esquire deceased. Account filed by W. McGill.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 272
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1792
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William McGill as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 51 [f.26]
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1793
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some mules Account filed by John Scott as accountant to the estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 36
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1794
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Charles Loughman for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 106-107
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1795
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Holliday as book keeper.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 65
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1797
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Henry John Humphreys, status not given.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 145
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1798
[Name] Porus
[Crop] Sugar Plotted In Clarendon as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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.
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1798
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, timber Account filed by James McNeil as book keeper.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 143
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1801
[Name] Porus Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum Owner details not recorded. Account filed by John Gray as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 210
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1807
[Name] Porus
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle Account presented by John Graham as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 202
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot)
[Name] Porus [Stock] 60 Registered to William Hylton.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot)
[Name] Porus [Stock] 99 Registered to William Hylton senior.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot) 18(F) 25(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Hylton Esquire Senior as owner.
T71/57 355-356
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)
[Name] Porus [Stock] 25 Registered to William Hylton senior.
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.
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Porus [ Jamaica | Clarendon ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/7316 [accessed 23rd April 2024].
