Chesterfield

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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
1755 [EA] - 1763 [LA] → Previous owner
1755 [EA] - 1763 [LA] → Heir

Reportedly co-heir with her sister Letitia Laird nee Cunningham. This estate and Flower Hill, where her husband Lewis Burwell Martin died in 1782, both passed in the 1780s to the mortgagee James Trecothick ne Ivers.

1755 [EA] - 1763 [LA] → Heir

Reportedly co-heir with her sister Ann Martin nee Cunningham.

1784 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession

Notes

Assumed to be the Chesterfield given in St Elizabeth in the Accounts Produce but marked just over the border in Westmoreland in the 1804 map.


Estate Information (38)

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1755
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of James Cunningham Esquire deceased. Account filed by Charles Kinkead, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 24
1756
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of James Cunningham Esquire deceased. Account filed by Charles Kinkead, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 38
1758
[Name] Chesterfield Barquedier (wharfage from Chesterfield Plantation)  
[Crop] sugar, rum,  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by Joseph Gardner, Wharfage at Chesterfield Barquedier.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 83
1759
[Name] Chesterfield Estates  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Joseph Gardner, Wharfinger at Chesterfield Barqn.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 140
1760
[Name] Chesterfield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Daniel Campbell, store keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 195
1761
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Samuell Allen, store keeper and wharffinger.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 197-198
1763
[Name] Chesterfield  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Cunningham. Account filed by Samuel Alton, wharfinger and storekeeper at Chesterfield Barkadier (a different estate - also mentions Flower Hill Pen).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 65
1766
[Name] Chesterfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Matthew Henegan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 39
1767
[Name] Chesterfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Matthew Henegan, wharfinger.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 148
1768
[Name] Chesterfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Patrick Shannahan cooper and wharfinger at Chesterfield Barquadier.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 148
1780
[Name] Chesterfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Sparke.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 196
1781
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership detail given. Account filed by Robert Blackburn.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 77
1782
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Williams wharfinger at Chesterfield Barquadier.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 188-189
1784
[Name] Chesterfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of James Trecothick Esq. as mortgagee in possession. Account filed by Samuel Crispe as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 28
1785
[Name] Chesterfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of James Trecothick Esq. as mortgagee in possession. Account filed by Samuel Crispe as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 46
1785
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of James Trecothick Esq. mortgagee in possession; account filed by Samuel Cuspe overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 43
1786
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, some cattle, logwood, pasturage, labour hire  
 

Filed for 4 May 1786 to 4 May 1787. The property of James Triscothick Esq mortgagee in possession; account filed by Samuel Davy Crispe as overseer. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 58
1786
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Account filed 1783-1786. Account of Rev Thomas Warren, Rector of St Elizabeth; sugar shipped by this deponent and consigned to Messrs Threcothick & Co, merchants in London, mortgagees in possession.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 9-14
1787
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of James Trecothick Esq. mortgagee in possession; account filed by Samuel Davey Crisp, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 142
1788
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, cattle, horses, hire of enslaved people  
 

The property of Ja.s Triscothick Esquire mortgagee in possession. Account filed by Samuel Davy Crispe as overseer. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 213-214 f.108
1788
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar  
 

The estate of James Cunningham Esquire deceased of which Messrs Trescothick and Co. and Messrs Thwaites and Wheelwright merchants of London were mortgagees in possession. Account filed by the Rev.d Thomas Warren, rector of the parish of St Elizabeth. Accounts filed for 1787, 1788.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 28
1789
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, logwood, some cattle, hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by Samuel Davy Crispe as overseer at Chesterfield Barquadier. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 150
1790
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Samuel Davy Crispe as overseer at Chesterfield Barquadier. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 229-230
1791
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of James Trecothick Esquire as mortgagee. Account filed by Samuel Davy Crispe as overseer. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Pen filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 173 [f.81]
1792
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of James Trecothick Esquire as mortgagee. Account filed by Samuel Davy Crispe as overseer. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 54
1793
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of James Trecothick Esquire as mortgagee. Account filed by Samuel Davy Crispe as overseer. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 388-389 [f.195]
1794
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood, cotton, cattle  
 

Account filed by Samuel Davy Crispe as overseer at Chesterfield Barquadier for the year ending 31/12/1794. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 124
1794
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Walker for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/03/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 124
1795
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, cattle  
 

Account filed by William Walker as overseer at Chesterfield Barquadier for the year ending 31/12/1795. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 23
1796
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, steers, wharfage  
 

Account filed by William Walker, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, mules  
 

Account filed by William Walker as overseer at Chesterfield Barquadier for the year ending 31/12/1797. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 7-8
1798
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, some cattle, one horse  
 

Account filed by John Ellison as overseer at Chesterfield Barquadier for the year ending 31/12/1798. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 117
1799
[Name] Chesterfield  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Westmoreland 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1799
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Ellison Overseer of Chestfield.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 6
1800
[Name] Chesterfield Estate (and its appendage)  
[Crop] sugar, rum, one mule, one horse, cartage, logwood  
 

Account filed by John Alison as overseer on Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn for the year ending 31/12/1800. Accounts for Chesterfield Estate and "its appendage" filed together. Crops not dirrerentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 222
1801
[Name] Chesterfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by John Martin as overseer. Chesterfield Estate and Flower Hill Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 117
1803
[Name] Chesterfield Estate (and its appendage)  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Machin as overseer at Flower Hill Penn for the year ending 31/12/1803. Accounts for Chesterfield Estate and "its appendage" Flower Hill Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 43
1804
[Name] Chesterfield Estate and appendages  
[Crop] sugar and rum, old copper, logwood  
 

Owner not given. Account filed by John Martin, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 132