Wakefield

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
1740 [EA] - 1764 [LA] → Owner
1783 [EA] - 1784 [LA] → Not known

Wakefield was shown as 'in possession of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant bart. of the Kingdom of Great Britain 1783-1784: Grant might previously have been lessee of the estate and enslaved people with W. Harvie.

1787 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Not known

Account filed by John Jacques one of the attornies of Oldfield Bowles

1796 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Lessee

Given in various capacities, but most frequently as lessee.


Estate Information (33)

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1740
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Charles Bowles Esq. Account filed by Hampson Nedham as attorney to the said Charles Bowles. The estates of Wakefield and Bogg Pen were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 58
1741
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Daniel Broadbelt and verified by the Honourable Hampson Nedham Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 191-196
1742
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum and use of a wood pen  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles Esq. as received by Daniel Brodbelt. Account filed by the said Daniel Brodbelt and verified by the Honourable Hampson Nedham Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 52
1742
[Name] [no name given]  
[Crop] Money received ?5305. 18. 101/4 for (not specified)  
 

Accounts filed from 25th Mar - 31st Dec. Belonging to Charles Bowles Esq. Account received and filed by the Honourable Hampson Nedham attorney to the said Charles Bowles Esq.?

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 52 - 53
1743
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles Esq. Account filed by Dan Brodbelt and verified by the Honourable Hampson Nedham Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 99
1753
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles Esq. of New Windsor in Great Britain with Achibald Sinclair as factor by appointment of Willaim Aikenhead Esq. said Bowles's attorney. Account filed by the said Archibald Sinclair merchant and factor of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 164-165
1754
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles Esquire of New Windsor in England, with Archibald Sinclair Factor. Account filed by Archibald Sinclair, merchant and factor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 1
1755
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles Esquire of New Windsor in Engalnd, with Archibald Sinclair as Factor. Account filed by Archibald Sinclair, factor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 15
1757
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles Esquire with Archibald Sinclair as Factor. Account filed by Archibald Sinclair, merchant and factor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 56
1758
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles Esquire of New Windsor, with Archibald Sinclair factor. Account filed by Archiald Sinclair, merchant and factor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 89
1759
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles Esquire with Archibald Sinclair as Factor. Account filed by Archibald Sinclair, merchant and factor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 146
1760
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles Esquire of New Windsor in England, with Sinclair and Rennalls, factors. Account filed by Kenny Sinclair and Joseph Rennalls, merchants and factors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 176
1761
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles Esquire of New Windsor in England, with Sinclair and Rennalls, factors. Account filed by Kennedy Sinclair and Joseph Rennalls, merchants and factors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 206-207
1762
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles of New Windsor England. Account filed by Kennedy Sinclair of St. Catherine and Joseph Rennalls as merchants and factors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 24
1763
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles of New Windsor England. Account filed by Kennedy Sinclair of St. Catherine and Joseph Rennalls as merchants and factors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 67
1764
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Bowles of New Windsor England. Account filed by Kennedy Sinclair of St. Catherine as merchant and factor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 118
1783
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In possession of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Abraham Topham as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 56
1784
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In possession of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Abraham Topham as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 190
1787
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies of Oldfield Bowles Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 185
1787
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Wakefield  
 

'A list and valuation of the slaves, cattle, buildings, etc., upon the Wakefield plantation taken 22 Jan. 1787. There are now 115 negroes valued at £6,625, 83 cattle £1,178, 12 mules £60 and buildings £1,500. Total £9,363. In 1766 there were Old plants 80 acres, first ratoons 80 acres, young plants 75 acres. A long letter follows signed by George Cuthbert and James Campbell, who are the appraisers appointed by Ralph Fisher, esq., one of the administrators of the estate of Charles Bowles, deceased, and Ralph Fisher and James Robertson, esq., are two of the attornies of Oldfield Bowles of G.B., esq., son and heir of the said Charles Bowles, recites bond of £14,000 from Sir Alex. Grant and William Harvie deceased to Charles Bowles for performance of a lease of Wakefield plantation in the parishes of St. Thomas in the Vale and St. John from C. B. to W. Harvie dated 21 Jan. 1766. Present value £9,363 c., original value in 1766 £14,079 c., the deficiency being £4,716, and for deficiency of canes £687 is due. Total £5,403. (Brit. Museum Add. MS. 19,049, fo. 9.).'

 
Caribbeana Vol. VI 'Bowles of Jamaica'
1793
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, one horse  
 

Account filed by John Cameron.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 96
1794
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, one horse  
 

Account filed by John Cameron.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 27-28
1795
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Cameron as overseer for the period 01/01/1795 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 246
1796
[Name] Wakefield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers  
 

Belonging to John McBean Esq. Account filed by John Cameron, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under load to John McBean, Esq. Account filed by John Cameron.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 130
1798
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St John as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1798
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Under lease to John McBrien [?] Esq. Account filed by John Cameron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 98
1799
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Under lease to John McBean Esq. Account filed by John Cameron.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 34
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Name] Wakefield  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to McBean with 70 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.
1800
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Under lease to John McBean Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by John Cameron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 112-113
1801
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Now under lease to John McBean of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Esq. Account filed by John Cameron.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 94
1803
[Name] Wakefield  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

[Property ?] of John McBean Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Robert Shaw as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 49
1804
[Name] Wakefield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under lease to John McBean, Esq, of Great Britain. Account filed in the name of John Todd (status not given).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 143