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Green Island

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Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
- 22/02/1765 [ED] → Owner
Philip Haughton
22/02/1765 [SD] - 1781 [EY] → Joint owner
Mary James (née Haughton)
22/02/1765 [SD] - 1770 [EY] → Joint owner
Philip Haughton James the elder
1781 [SY] - 21/01/1789 [ED] → Owner
Mary James (née Haughton)
1789 [SY] - → Owner
John Haughton James senior
22/02/1765 [SD] - 1781 [EY] → Joint owner
Montague James

Estate Information (9)

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1765
[Name] Green Island  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Bequeathed by Philip Haughton to his daughter Mary James and his grandson Philip Haughton James, a half share each, including the land purchased by Philip Haughton adjouning Green Island which formerly belonged to William James deceased and was sold by virtue of a writ of extend and purchased from James Kerr.

 
PROB 11/926/274
1765
[Name] Green Island  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owned Philip Haughton Esq, deceased. Account filed by William Crawford as overseer or manager.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 127
1767
[Name] Green Island  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Hugh Greaves as overseer or manager.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 169
1768
[Name] Green Island  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Hugh Greaves as overseer or manager.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 170
1769
[Name] Green Island  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Hugh Greaves as overseer or manager.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 170
1770
[Name] [no name given]  
 

One moity of Green Island was inherited by Mary James on the death of her son Philip Haughton James at the age of 14 in 1770, as dictated by the will of her father Philip Haughton (d. 1765).

 
See entry for Philip Haughton James
1771
[Name] Green Island  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Hugh Greaves as overseer or manager. Name also listed as Haughton Hall.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 187
1780
[Name] Green Island  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Mrs Mary James. Account filed by John Philip Boteler late clerk to Hog River. Produce disposed of by John Jarrett Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 138
1789
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Inherited by John Haughton James senior on the death of his mother Mary James nee Haughton.

 
See entry for Mary James nee Haughton