Banbury / Clearmount

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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
1775 [EA] - 1775 [LA] → Previous owner
1793 [EA] - 1810 [LA] → Owner
1811 [EA] - → Not known
1815 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner

Estate Information (31)

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1775
[Name] Banbury  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Produce sold and shipped for the account of the Hon. Archibald Sinclair Esq. deceased. Account filed by Kennedy Sinclair.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 49
1778
[Name] Banbury  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Wilkinson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 143
1779
[Name] Banbury  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Wilkinson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 142
1793
[Name] Clear Mount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, corn, cotton, cattle, sheep, horses, hire of enslaved people, rents, wainage  
 

Estate of John Henderson Esq of Great Britain under the care of William McRobbie. Includes Clear Mount Estate. Account filed by John Morison his attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 42
1793
[Name] Clear Mount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estate of John Henderson Esq, late of Jamaica and then of Great Britain. Account filed by William McRobbie his attorney. Clear Mount Estate, Port Henderson, Goshen and Bushy Park Penns filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 58
1796
[Name] Property of John Henderson: Clear Mount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Henderson Esq. Account filed by William McRobbie his attorney. Goshen, Bushy Park and Marly Mount Penns, Port Henderson and Clear Mount Estate filed together. Crops not differentiated between penns.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 78
1797
[Name] Property of John Henderson: Clear Mount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Henderson Esq. Account filed by William McRobbie his attorney. Goshen, Bushy Park and Marly Mount Penns, Port Henderson and Clear Mount Estate filed together. Crops not differentiated between penns.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 78
1798
[Name] Property of John Henderson: Clear Mount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Henderson Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by William McRobbie his attorney. Goshen Pen, Port Henderson and Clear Mount Estate filed together. Crops listed separately

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 136
1798
[Name] Clear Mount  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and 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] Clear Mount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, labour hire  
 

Property of John Henderson Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by William McRobbie his attorney. Goshen Pen, Port Henderson and Clear Mount Estate filed together. Crops for Goshen Pen and Port Henderson listed separately from Clear Mount Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 223
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Banbury  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to John Henderson with 145 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 48.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Banbury  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to John Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of 1809.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot)  
[Name] Clearmount  
 

Registered to John P. Wint.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot)  
[Name] Banbury  
[Stock] 250  
 

Registered to the estate of John P. Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot)  
[Name] Banbury  
[Stock] 122  
 

Registered to the estate of John P. Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_01.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot) 22(F) 22(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Larchin Lynch and executor and trustee of John Henderson dec..

 
T71/25 429-430
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot)  
[Name] Banbury  
[Stock] 273  
 

Registered to the estate of John P. Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot)  
[Name] Banbury  
[Stock] 232  
 

Registered to the estate of John Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Laing and George William Hamilton as the executors and trustees of John Henderson dec.

 
T71/26 222
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] Banbury  
[Stock] 244  
 

Registered to the estate of John Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot)  
[Name] Clearmount  
[Stock] 248  
 

Registered to the estate of John Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot) 19(F) 14(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Laing, George William Hamilton as attornies for the trustees of John Henderson esq. dec. .

 
T71/27 193
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot)  
[Name] Clearmount  
[Stock] 270  
 

Registered to the estate of John Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot)  
[Name] Clearmount  
[Stock] 274  
 

Registered to the estate of John Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot) 17(F) 14(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Piercy Henderson as owner, heir of law of John Henderson esq dec.

 
T71/28 404
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot)  
[Name] Clearmount  
 

Registered to John P. Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1829
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Piercy Henderson as owner. List includes "names in 1817" and "modern names". All transferred to St Catherine.

 
T71/30 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)  
[Name] Clearmount  
[Stock] 62  
 

Registered to John P. Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Clearmount  
[Stock] 124  
 

Registered to John P. Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot)  
[Name] Clearmont  
[Stock] 117  
 

Registered to John P. Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIV.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1839
[Name] Banbury  
[Size] 1064  
 

Registered to Edbury and Roach.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thosvale.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.