Associated People (8) |
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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:
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- 1770 [LA] → Owner
William Beckford died in 1770. |
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- 1740 [LA] → Previous owner
Gauci used information from the inventories of Peter Beckford's estates. The inventories noted the property was co-owned by Beckford. |
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1799 [EA] - → Owner
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1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Previous owner
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1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
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1823 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
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1827 [EA] - → Previous owner
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Estate Information (24) |
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1740
[Name] Seven Miles Walk
Peter Beckford's estate inventory noted that he co-owned the property and that the stock was valued at £2255 Jamaican pounds. The value of the crop was £519 Jamaican pounds.
Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.44
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1740
[Name] Seven mile walk
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the late Peter Beckford Esq. Senior and his copartners. Account filed by William Beckford. The estates of Retreat, Kays, Malmsey Valley, Crofts, Rock River, Lime Hall, Danks, Petersfield, Shrewsbury, Roaring River, Hatfield, Smithfield, Barbadoes Valley, Lewis's Crawle, Beckford & Forbes Plantation, Seven Mile Walk, Dirty Pitt Pen, Dry sugar Work Pen, Two Mile Wood Pen, Bodles Pen, Withy Wood Pen and Esher were filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 76
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1740
[Name] Seven mile walk
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the late Peter Beckford Esq. Senior and his copartners. Account filed by Richard Beckford Esq. attorney to Mrs. Bathshua Beckford and Mr. Julmes and Francis Beckford. The estates of Retreat, Kays, Malmsey Valley, Crofts, Rock River, Lime Hall, Danks, Petersfield, Shrewsbury, Roaring River, Hatfield, Smithfield, Barbadoes Valley, Lewis's Crawle, Beckford & Forbes Plantation, Seven Mile Walk, Dirty Pitt Pen, Dry sugar Work Pen, Two Mile Wood Pen, Bodles Pen, Withy Wood Pen and Esher were filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 79
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1754
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar, rum The several Estates of William Beckford, under the direction of Richard Lewing & John Mclead. Account filed by Richard Lewing, one of the attorneys. Retreat, Rock River, Malmsey Valley, Danks, Karys's Cralie, Moores, Harbour Head, Stanton, Esher, Guamaboa, Seven Mile Walk, Stanton Estates. Crops are for all the estates combined.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 3
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1770
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richard Lewing Esq. as one of the attorneys to the late William Beckford Esq. and since his decease one of the attorneys to the executor of the said William Beckford.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 30
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1771
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Davis, gentleman. Under the care and direction of Richard Lewing Esq.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 180
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1772
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Davis, gentleman. Under the care and direction of Richard Lewing Esq.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 5
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1773
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richard Lewing Esq.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 183
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1774
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Ronald Macdonald as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 260
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1775
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar and rum Property of the late William Beckford Esq. Account filed by Ronald MacDonald as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 15
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1778
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Ronald MacDonald as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 77
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1780
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to the heirs of William Beckford Esquire deceased. Account filed by Ronald MacDonald as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 7-8
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1781
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Ronald MacDonald as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 111
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1782
[Name] Seven Mile Walk Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum No ownership details. Account filed by James Dore, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 165
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1783
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Robert Fynn as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 146-7
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1784
[Name] Seven Mile Walk
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by J. S. Woodburne as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 164
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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)
[Name] Seven Mile Walk Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Philip Redwood with 30 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.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)
[Name] Seven-mile Walk [Stock] 88 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.
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1816
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot)
[Name] Seven Mile Walk [Stock] 80 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.
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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
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot)
[Name] Seven Mile Walk [Stock] 80 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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 35(Tot)
[Name] Seven Mile Walk [Stock] 178 Registered to John Gordon.
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.
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot)
[Name] Seven Mile Walk [Stock] 100 Registered to John Gordon.
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.
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot)
[Name] Seven Mile Walk [Stock] 200 Registered to the estate of John Gordon.
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.
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Seven Mile Walk [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/9111 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
