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Top Hill

Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale

Estate Details

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] - 1827 [LA] → Owner
Dr Hugh Edwards
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Elizabeth Jane Edwards
1830 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
Dr Hugh Edwards
1839 [EA] - → Not known
Francis Eliott

Estate Information (21)

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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Doctor Edwards with 45 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] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Dr Hugh Edwards.

 
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] 60(Tot)  
[Name] Top-Hill  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Hugh Edwards.

 
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] 60(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Dr Hugh Edwards.

 
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] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Dr Hugh Edwards.

 
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] 52(Tot) 24(F) 28(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hugh Edwards as owner.

 
T71/25 82-83
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Dr Hugh Edwards.

 
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] 70(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to Dr Hugh Edwards.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 53(Tot) 25(F) 28(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hugh Edwards as owner.

 
T71/26 111
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Hugh Edwards.

 
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] 87(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to Hugh Edwards.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot) 30(F) 39(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hugh Edwards as owner.

 
T71/27 103
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to Hugh Edwards.

 
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] 75(Tot) 37(F) 38(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Hugh Edwards as owner.

 
T71/28 37
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 43  
 

Registered to Hugh Edwards.

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

In the possession of Elizabeth Jane Edwards as owner.

 
T71/29 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 80(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to the estate of Hugh Edwards.

 
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] 61(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to the estate of Hugh Edwards.

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

In the possession of Elizabeth Jane Edwards as owner.

 
T71/32 106
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
[Name] Top Hill  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to F. [=E.] J. Edwards.

 
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] Top-Hill  
[Size] 250  
 

Registered to Francis Eliott.

 
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.