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Middlesex Pen

Jamaica | St Elizabeth

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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
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
Augustus Facey Robinson
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
Mary Alexander
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
John William Spencer Griffith
1821 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
Robert Watt

Notes

Note that in the 1817 almanac this estate is called Essex Valley and listed in St Elizabeth, registered to Mary Alexander and Augustus F. Robinson but is presumably the same as Middlesex Pen as the transfer in ownership matches with the other records for the estate.

Estate Information (17)

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1799
[Name] Middlesex  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Elizabeth as a sugar estate with a watermill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot) 49(F) 51(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Augustus Facey Robinson as joint owner and John Griffiths as attorney to Mary Alexander.

 
T71/165 756-759
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Essex Valley  
[Stock] 96  
 

Registered to Mary Alexander and Augustus F. Robinson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot) 50(F) 49(M)  
[Name] Middlesex Pen  
 

In the possession of Robert Watt as owner for Middlesex Pen. Purchased from Augustus Facey Robinson and Mary Alexander and registered by them in St Elizabeth in 1817.

 
T71/167 705-706
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
[Name] East Middlesex  
[Stock] 125  
 

Registered to Robert Watt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot)  
[Name] East Middlesex  
 

Registered to Robert Watt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 51(F) 51(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Watt as owner on Middlesex.

 
T71/168 736-737
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Name] East Middlesex  
[Stock] 123  
 

Registered to Robert Watt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot)  
[Name] East Middlesex  
[Stock] 149  
 

Registered to Robert Watt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot) 49(F) 51(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Watt as proprietor.

 
T71/169 796-797
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Name] East Middlesex  
[Stock] 98  
 

Registered to Robert Watt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot) 49(F) 43(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Watt as owner.

 
T71/175 [Unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot)  
[Name] Middlesex  
[Stock] 102  
 

Registered to Robert Watt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
[Name] Middlesex  
[Stock] 153  
 

Registered to Robert Watt. Number of stock unclear in transcription.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 52(F) 50(M)  
[Name] Middlesex Pen  
 

In the possession of Robert Watt as owner.

 
T71/177 469
1832
[Name] Middlesex  
 

Registered to Robert Watt. Number of enslaved people illegible.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Eliz.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Middlesex  
[Size] 600  
 

Registered to Robert Watt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Eliza.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.