Mount Pleasant [4]

Estate Details


Associated People (14)

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
1803 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - → Owner
1820 [EA] - → Other
1820 [EA] - → Other
1820 [EA] - → Other
1820 [EA] - → Other
1821 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1825 [EA] - 1830 [LA] → Previous owner
1826 [EA] - → Executor
1826 [EA] - → Executor
1829 [EA] - → Owner
1831 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Not known

Possibly attorney?

1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£1,296 12S 10D

Estate Information (23)

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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot)  
[Name] Mt Pleasant  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Wm Caldwell with 90 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. 47.
1803
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] coffee, jobbing, stock, beef, one mule  
 

Property of the heirs of William Caldwell Esq deceased. Account filed by Hugh Mackay [or Manby] for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 79
1807
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] Coffee, pimento, jobbing, wainage, pasturage and stock sold  
 

Belonging to the heirs of William Caldwell deceased. Account filed by Hugh Mackay.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 104
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Mount-Pleasant  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to the estate of William Caldwell.

 
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] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to the estate of William Caldwell.

 
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] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to the estate of William Caldwell.

 
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] 138(Tot) 64(F) 74(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Caldwell as owner.

 
T71/25 179-183
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to the estate of William Caldwell.

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

In the possession of Jessy Caldwell as owner. No previous return. Conveyed by John Caldwell, residuary devisee and heir at law under the will of my late husband William Caldwell deceased to John Gale Vidal and by him in trust to John Millward and by him to me as one of the parties, claiming under the will of the said William Caldwell deceased, and previously registered by John Caldwell in this parish in 1817.

 
T71/26 81
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 2(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Caldwell as owner. Previous total was for 138 enslaved people. All conveyed to John Milward and by him conveyed to: Mrs Jessy Caldwell (48 enslaved), Robert William Harris (57 enslaved), Robert Page (28 enslaved). Robert William Harris owned Hopewell in St Thomas-in-the-Vale; the enslaved people appear to have been transferred there. Robert Page bought Ginger Hall at some point c. 1820 so enslaved people were presumably moved there.

 
T71/26 65
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 62  
 

Registered to Alexander 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] 47(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Mackintosh as owner. By purchase from Jessy Caldwell and registered by her in the last return in this parish.

 
T71/27 273
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 65  
 

Registered to Alexander 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] 47(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 68  
 

Registered to the estate of Alexander 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] 50(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Gilzean and John Wilson Davis as executors of Alexander McIntosh dec.

 
T71/28 342
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to the estate of Alexander 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] 55(Tot) 26(F) 29(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Davis as owner. Previous return by Alexander Gilzean and John Wilson Davis as exors of Alexander MacIntosh.

 
T71/30 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to the estate of Alexander 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.
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 55(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

Registered to Thomas Davis.

 
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] 59(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to Asher Levy and A. J. Lindo.

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

In the possession of Ashur Levy as owner. Registered in last return by Thomas Davis; increase by purchase.

 
T71/32 188
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 57  
 

Registered to Asher Levy and A. J. Lindo.

 
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] Mount Pleasant  
[Size] 500  
 

Registered to Levy and Lindo.

 
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.