Associated People (4) |
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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:
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1753 [EA] - → Owner
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1765 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Owner
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1792 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Joint owner
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1792 [EA] - 1797 [EY] → Joint owner
Shown as co-owner as late as 1801 although her will was proved in 1797. |
Estate Information (35) |
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1765
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock Belonging to James Gibbon of the United Kingdom. Account filed by Thomas Cameron as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 142
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1766
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock Belonging to James Gibbon of the United Kingdom. Account filed by Thomas Cameron as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 12
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1768
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock Belonging to James Gibbon of the United Kingdom. Account filed by Thomas Cameron as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 130
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1769
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock Belonging to James Gibbon of the United Kingdom. Account filed by Thomas Cameron as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 188
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1771
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock Account filed by Alexander Adams as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 209
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1772
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock Account filed by Alexander Adams as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 25
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1773
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock Account filed by Alexander Adams as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 194
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1774
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock Account filed by Alexander Adams as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 262
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1775
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Robert Graham.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 39
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1776
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by John Graham as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 61
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1778
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by John Graham as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 100
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1779
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Charles Stewart as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 27
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1780
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Charles Stewart as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 191-2
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1781
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, firewood No ownership details. Account filed by Charles Stewart overseer. Watchtower & Tunbridge Estates filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 113-114
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1782
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Charles Stewart as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 27
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1783
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Charles Stewart as overseer. Entry recorded Watehouse and Tunbridge together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 18
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1784
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Charles Stewart as overseer. Entry recorded Watehouse and Tunbridge together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 163
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1786
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Charles Stewart, overseer. Waterhouse and Tunbridge Estates filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 134
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1786
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, firewood, one horse By order of Simon Taylor Esq; account filed by Charles Stewart as overseer. Waterhouse and Tunbridge Estates filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 131
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1787
[Name] Tunbridge Estates
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, sheep, timber The property of James Gibbon Esquire. Account filed by Tho.s Scott book keeper. Waterhouse and Tunbridge Estates filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 53 f.27
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1788
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, mules, one horse, timber The property of James Gibbon Esquire. Account filed by Arch.d Campbell Smith as overseer. Waterhouse and Tunbridge Estates filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 363-364 f.191
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1789
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of James Gibbon Esquire. Account filed by Archibald Campbell Smith as overseer. Waterhouse and Tunbridge Estates filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 372
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1790
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, logwood Account filed by Arch.d Camp.l Smith as overseer. Waterhouse and Tunbridge Estates filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 33 [f.11]
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1791
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, a few mules, firewood The property of James Gibben Esquire. Account filed by Arch.d Campbell Smith as overseer. Waterhouse and Tunbridge Estates filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 255 [f.122]
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1792
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of William Praed and Sarah Backwell. Account filed by Archibald Campbell Smith as overseer. Accounts filed for 1792 [?]. Waterhouse and Tunbridge Estates filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 88-89
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1793
[Name] Turnbridge
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, wood Account filed by Archibald Cambell Smith as overseer on both plantations. Waterhouse and Turnbridge plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 50-51
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1795
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Archibald Ca Smith as overseer for both estates. Waterhouse and Tunbridge estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 256
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1796
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Archibald Campbell Smith, overseer. Waterhouse and Tunbridge Estates filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1796
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot) 107(F) 91(M)
[Name] Waterhouse and Tunbridge Document held at the National Maritume Museum, MGS/23: "Plantation inventory of the Waterhouse and Tunbridge Plantation, British West Indies, entitled 'A list of slaves on Waterhouse & Tunbridge", taken on 1 January 1797. Inventory includes 62 men, 65 women, 10 boys, 8 girls, 6 male invalids, 9 female invalids, 13 male children, 25 female children, and increase/decrease in slave numbers for 1796."
Douglas Hamilton and Robert J. Blyth (eds), Representing Slavery. Art, Artifacts and Archives in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum (2007), pp. 186, no. 135
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1797
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, oxen Owner not given. Account filed by Archibald Campbell Smith, overseer. Waterhouse and Tunbridge filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 198
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1798
[Name] Tunbridge Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Thomas Maxwell overseer. Under the care and management of Simon Taylor Esq as attorney to William Reid [= Praed?] and wife [= Miss?] Sarah Backwell.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 13
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1798
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] Sugar Plotted In St Andrew 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
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1799
[Name] Tunbridge
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Thomas Maxwell overseer. Under the care and management of the Honourable Simon Taylor. The property of William Pread Esquire and Mrs Buckwell Waterhouse and Tunbridge plantation filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 188
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1800
[Name] Tunbridge Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to William Pread Esq and Miss Sarah Backwell. Under the care and management of the Hon Simon Taylor Esq as attorney to William Pread Esq and Miss Sarah Backwell. Account filed by Thomas Maxwell as overseer. Waterhouse and Tunbridge Plantations filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 31
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1801
[Name] Tunbridge Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum, cattlle The property of William Pread Esq and Miss Sarah Backwell. Under the care and management of the Hon Simon Taylor as Attorney to William Pread Esq and Miss Sarah Backwell. Account filed by Thomas Maxwell as overseer. Waterhouse and Tunbridge Plantations filed together; crops not differentiated.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 54
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Tunbridge [ Jamaica | St Andrew ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/14535 [accessed 26th December 2024].
