Muse

Estate Details


Associated People (12)

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
1799 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Owner
1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Joint owner
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Joint owner
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Not known

Perhaps retained enslaved people on this estate after partition, although they may have been moved elsewhere

1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£669 3S 8D

Estate Information (22)

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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)  
[Name] Meuse  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Thomas Simon Roach with 41 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. 49.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot)  
[Name] Meuse  
[Stock] 34  
 

Registered to T. S. Roach.

 
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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot)  
[Name] Muse  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to William Falconer.

 
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] 53(Tot)  
[Name] Muse  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to William Falconer.

 
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] 49(Tot) 26(F) 23(M)  
[Name] Muse Plantation  
 

In the possession of on the Muse Plantation John Alves, Alexander Gilzean and James S Lane as attorneys to William Falconer esq.

 
T71/25 243
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Muse  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to William Falconer.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Registered to Thomas Simon Roach.

 
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] 48(Tot)  
[Name] Muse  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to D. McIntosh and others.

 
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] 47(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Donald McIntosh, James McIntosh and James McIntosh as joint owners. Bought from William Falconer and registered in the last return by his attornies John Alves, James L. Law and Alexander Gilzean in this parish.

 
T71/26 233
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot)  
[Name] Muse  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to Donald McIntosh. Number of stock unclear.

 
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] 46(Tot)  
[Name] Muse  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to Donald McIntosh.

 
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] 40(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Mackintosh as attorney of Donald Mackintosh joint owner with James Mackintosh.

 
T71/27 270
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Muse  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to Donald McIntosh.

 
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] 53(Tot)  
[Name] Muse  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Donald and James McIntosh.

 
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] 17(Tot) 9(F) 8(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Edward Clouston and James Grant as attornies to James Mackintosh. Returned in 1823 as the joint property of Donald and James Mackintosh [on Muse] but since partitioned. Not clear if these enslaved people remained on Muse in 1826.

 
T71/28 351
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot) 18(F) 15(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Edward Clouston and James Grant as attornies to Donald Mackintosh. Previous registration for 12 enslaved people (listed separately on JA19867). Increase previously the joint property of Donald and James Mackintosh; since partitioned.

 
T71/28 353
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot)  
[Name] Muse  
 

Registered to Donald and James McIntosh.

 
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
[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Donald Mackintosh as owner.

 
T71/30 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 25(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Donald McIntosh.

 
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] 30(Tot)  
[Name] Muse  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to Donald McIntosh.

 
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] 28(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Donald McIntosh as owner.

 
T71/32 218
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)  
[Name] Muse  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to Donald McIntosh.

 
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.