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Washington

Jamaica | Port Royal

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
1802 [EA] - → Not known
Peter McDermot or McDermott
1810 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Owner
Peter McDermot or McDermott
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Previous owner
Charles Coulon Yates
1824 [EA] - 1830 [LA] → Owner
Francis Clark
1831 [EA] - → Other
Moses Clark
1832 [EA] - 1837 [LA] → Other
Edward McDermot
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
John White Cater
1834 [EA] - → Receiver
Joseph Gordon

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St David 134 (Washington & Hibernia)
£1,281 10S 11D
Washington estate is in Port Royal and Hibernia is in St. David.

Notes

Enslaved people on this estate in the slave registers for 1826, 1829 and 1832 are very likely included in the entries for Mount Faraway Plantation - see JA2844.

Estate Information (13)

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1802
[Name] Washington Settlement  
[Crop] coffee  
 

Account filed by Peter McDermott.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 4
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot)  
[Name] Washington  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to P. McDermot.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11PtRoyl.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
[Name] Washington  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to P. McDermott.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 17(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Peter McDermott as owner. All removed from St George since 1817.

 
T71/120 160
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Washington  
 

Registered to P. McDermott.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Francis Clark as agent for the heirs of Charles Cinlan[?] Yates. Previously given in by Peter McDermott in right of his wife.

 
T71/121 114
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot)  
[Name] Washington  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to Francis Clark.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot)  
[Name] Washington  
 

Registered to Francis Clark.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot)  
[Name] Washington  
 

Registered to Francis Clark.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29royldav.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot)  
[Name] Washington  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Francis Clark.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831royl.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot)  
[Name] Washington  
 

Registered to Moses Clark.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32royl.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
[Name] Washington  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Edward McDermott.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33PtRoyl.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Washington  
[Size] 141  
 

Registered to Andrew Murray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40PtRoyal.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.