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James MacDonald (attorney in Jamaica)

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Biography

James MacDonald and James McDonald appear as a major attorney or as major attorneys in western and northern Jamaica. The fact that estates in both St Mary (Richmond and Oxford) and Westmoreland (Midgham) held by Milligan Robertson as mortgagees-in-possession shared an attorney given variously as James MacDonald and James McDonald suggests these were the same man. Higman shows James McDonald (sic) as owning 11 enslaved people on Coffee Hall,' his own small plantation in Trelawny' in 1832.


Sources

B.W. Higman, Plantation Jamaica p. 87. Higman notes (p. 309 fn 76) in relation to Table 3.2 that the men shown separately in Table 3.2 as James MacDonald with 11 properties centred on St Mary and James McDonald with 9 centred on Trelawny might have been one rather than two men.

Associated Claims (2)

Jamaica St Elizabeth 550
£465 19s 4d
Awardee
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Jamaica St Mary 276 (Eden Estate)
£2,932 5s 3d
Awardee (Receiver)
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Associated Estates (24)

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
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Blackheath Estate [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
Bybrook [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Cape Clear Pen [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1829 [EA] - → Receiver
Coxheath Pen [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
Fish River Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Fontabelle Estate [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Goshen Estate [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Goshen Pen [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
Hazelymph Estate [ Jamaica | St James ]
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
Holland Estate and 'Shaws' [ Jamaica | St Elizabeth ]
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
Hopewell [2] [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Konigsberg Castle [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Lucky Hill Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Midgham [1] [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Newfound River [ Jamaica | Hanover ]
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Osborne Estate [ Jamaica | St George ]
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Oxford Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
Petersville [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Richmond [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Southfield [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
Unknown [ Jamaica | St John ]
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Unknown [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Lessee
Unknown [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Lessee
Venture [1] [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]