Newman Hall

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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
1765 [EA] - 1767 [LA] → Owner
1769 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Previous owner
1774 [EA] - → Owner

Listed as proprietor but possibly attorney

1809 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£2,296 17S 9D

Estate Information (34)

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1765
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding. Account filed by Maurice Cashman as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 42
1766
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding. Account filed by Maurice Cashman as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 43
1767
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding. Account filed by Patrick Fotheringham as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 87
1769
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased. Account filed by Patrick Fotheringham as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 12
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 169  
 

Listed as belonging to Daniel Bernard with 3 men bearing arms and 6 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 136 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1788
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alex.r Heron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 362-363 f.191
1789
[Name] Newman Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alexander Heron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 156-157 [f.79]
1790
[Name] Newman Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Gibbes as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 23 [f.7] and 26, 27 [f.8]
1791
[Name] Newman Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esquire. Account filed by George Morrison as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 228-229 [f.109]
1799
[Name] Newmanhall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James 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.
1807
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Watt as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 95-96
1808
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account filed by Robert Watt as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 195
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to Edgar Handiside deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to Handiside Edgar deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Newman-Hall  
[Stock] 116  
 

Registered to heirs of Handaside Edgar.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot) 97(F) 82(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Steele as attorney to Wiliam Litt Esquire owner.

 
T71/202 392-396
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 124  
 

Registered to W. P. Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 227(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 111  
 

Registered to W. P. Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot) 105(F) 102(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Steele as Attorney to William Peatt Litt, the owner. 53 enslaved people purchased from Robert Hamilton and Andrew Bogle and given in by them in 1817 in St Thomas-in-the-Vale.

 
T71/206 162-167
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 102  
 

Registered to William Peat Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 203(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 126  
 

Registered to William Peat Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot) 91(F) 93(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Steele Esq as Attorney to William Peatt Litt Esq.

 
T71/209 163-164
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 100  
 

Registered to William P. Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 98  
 

Registered to William Peat Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 106  
 

Registered to William Peat Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Carey as Attorney to William Peatt Litt Esq.

 
T71/213 132-133
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to William Peat Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to William Peat Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Carey as Attorney to William Peatt Litt Esq.

 
T71/219 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to William Peat Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 112  
 

Registered to William Peat Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Carey as Attorney to William Peatt Litt .

 
T71/222 87
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to William Peat Litt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Newman Hall  
[Stock] 703  
 

Registered to William Clarke.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.