Marlborough Mount

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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
1771 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Owner
1775 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Owner

Probably in fact tenant-for-life under his uncle John Curtis's will, although he [Hanson] sold the estate c. 1793, implying he had destroyed the entail.

1794 [EA] - 1797 [LA] → Owner
1799 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Previous owner

Notes

Not identified in slave registers or almanacs.


Estate Information (32)

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1770
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Watson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 14
1771
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of John Curtis Esq. Account filed by William Watson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 165
1775
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Hanson Esq. account filed by William Watson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 12-3
1776
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Hanson Esq. account filed by William Watson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 109
1778
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Hanson Esq. account filed by William Watson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 52
1779
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Hanson Esq. account filed by William Watson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 166
1780
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Harrison. Account filed by Matthew Stirling, overseer. Marlborough Mount & Clifton Hill Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 32-33
1781
[Name] Marlborough Mount Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Matthew Stirling, overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Plantation filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 125
1782
[Name] Marlborough Mount estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Hansen. Accounr filed by Mathew Stirling, overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 153
1783
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Matthew Sterling as overseer. Entry recorded Marlborough Mount and Clifton Hill together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 16
1785
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Sterling as overseer. Entry recorded Marlborough Mount and Clifton Hill together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 210
1786
[Name] Marlbro Mount Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Hanson Esq; account filed by Matthew Sterling, overseer. Clifton Hill/Marlbro Mount Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 140
1787
[Name] Malborough Mount Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to John Hanson Esq; account filed by John Barke, overseer. Clifton Hall and Malborough Mount Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 115
1787
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Hanson Esq; account filed by John Burke as overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 196
1788
[Name] Marlborough Mount Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Hansom Esquire. Account filed by John Burke as overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 360
1789
[Name] Marlborough Mount Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Hansom Esquire. Account filed by John Burke as overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 285 f.141
1790
[Name] Malborough Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Hanson Esquire. Account filed by John Burke as overseer. Clifton Hill and Malborough Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 410
1791
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to John Hanson Esquire. Account filed by John Burkes as overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 357-358 [f.173]
1792
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Hanson Esquire. Account filed by John Burke as overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 266-267
1793
[Name] Marlborough Mt Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Hanson Esq, disposed of on the order of Eliphalet Fitch Esq acting attorney for the estates. Account filed by John Burke as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/05/1793. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mt estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 9
1794
[Name] Marlborough Mt Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, pimento, old brass and copper  
 

Property of William James Esq under the direction of George Goodin Barrett and Leonard Parkinson Esq. s. Account filed by James Boggs as overseer of both estates for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mt estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 187-188
1795
[Name] Marlborough Mt Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William James Esq. Account filed by Samuel Johnston as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1795. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mt estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 67-68
1796
[Name] Marlborough Mount Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William James Esq. Account filed by Samuel Johnston, overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Plantations, Cambridge Pen all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 78
1797
[Name] Marlborough Mount Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William James Esq. Account filed by Samuel Johnston, overseer. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Plantations, Cambridge Pen all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 119
1798
[Name] Marlborough-M  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with a watermill 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.
1798
[Name] Marlbro Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Samuel Johnston overseer. Clifton Hall, Marlbro Mount Estates and Cambridge Pen filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 33
1799
[Name] Malborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Samuel Johnston overseer. Belonging to the heirs of William James Esquire deceased. Clifton Hill and Malborough Mount recorded together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 98-99
1799
[Name] Marlborough Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some mules  
 

Belonging the heirs of William James Esq deceased. Account filed by Samuel Johnston as overseer. Clifton Hill Estate, Marlborough Estate and Cambridge Penn filed together. Crops filed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 29
1800
[Name] Marlborough Mount Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of William James Esq. Account filed by Samuel Johnston. Clifton Hill and Marlborough Mount Estates and Cambridge Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 92
1801
[Name] Marlborough Mount Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of William Jones (?) Esq. Account filed by Samuel Johnston. Clifton Hill, Marlborough Mount Estates and Cambridge Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 213
1806
[Name] Marlborough Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Samuel Johnston as attorney and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 12
1807
[Name] Marlboro Mount  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Samuel Johnston as attorney and overseer. The estates of Clifton Hill, Marlboro Mount and Cambridge Pen were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 109