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Morris Hall

Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
1741 [EA] - 1742 [LA] → Previous owner
William Demetres
1799 [EA] - → Owner
Johanna Curtis
1799 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Elizabeth Curtis

Estate Information (8)

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1741
[Name] Morris Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Estate of William Demetres Esq. deceased in the possesion of Cooper Demetres Esq. Account filed by John Ludford of the parish of Clarendon late overseer to the estate of William Demetres Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 169
1742
[Name] Morris Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Demetres Esq. deceased. Account filed by Cooper Demetres of the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 50
1763
[Name] Morris Hall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a cattle mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 11(Tot)  
[Name] Morris Hall  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Johanna Curtis with 11 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.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Elizabeth Curtis with 14 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799. Morris Hall is registered in the same source to Johanna Curtis with 11 enslaved people; however, these are assumed to both be the same estate, ie the number of enslaved people would be aggregated.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 47.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)  
[Name] Morris-Hall  
 

Registered to Elizabeth Curtis.

 
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] 40(Tot)  
[Name] Morris Hall  
 

Registered to Elizabeth Curtis.

 
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] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Morris Hall  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Elizabeth Curtis.

 
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.