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Philipsburgh

Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale

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Associated People (4)

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] - → Owner
Hon. Philip Redwood
1809 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Previous owner
Hon. Philip Redwood
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
Andrew Bogle
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
Robert Hamilton

Estate Information (11)

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1798
[Name] Philipsburg  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale 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
[Number of enslaved people] 303(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Valley & Phillipsburg  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Philip Redwood with 303 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] 278(Tot)  
[Name] Philipsburgh  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to Philip Redwood, deceased.

 
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.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot)  
[Name] Junlewalk [sic]  
[Stock] 70  
 

Registered to Philip Redwood, deceased.

 
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] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Redwood's Penn  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to Philip Redwood, deceased.

 
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] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Philipsburgh  
[Stock] 153  
 

Registered to the estate of Hon. P. Redwood.

 
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] 245(Tot)  
[Name] Philipsburgh  
[Stock] 133  
 

Registered to the estate of Hon. P. Redwood.

 
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] 283(Tot) 127(F) 156(M)  
[Name] Philipsburgh and Seven Mile Pen  
 

In the possession of Robert Hamilton as joint owner with Andrew Bogle.

 
T71/25 39
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)  
[Name] Philipsburgh  
[Stock] 128  
 

Registered to the estate of Hon. P. Redwood.

 
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] 126(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 84  
 

Registered to Robert Hamilton.

 
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] 123(Tot)  
[Name] Philipsburgh  
[Stock] 103  
 

Registered to Robert Hamilton.

 
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.