Boston Estate

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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
1779 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Previous owner
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession

Inferred position as a partner in Leitch & Smith.

1815 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£4,494 18S 4D

Estate Information (27)

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1778
[Name] Boston  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James McBeth as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 49-50
1779
[Name] Boston  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

The property of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by James Macbeth as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 152-3
1780
[Name] Boston  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

The property of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by James Macbeth as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 219
1781
[Name] Boston Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by James McBeth, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 70
1782
[Name] Boston Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by James MacBeth.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 179
1798
[Name] Boston  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Portland 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.
1808
[Name] Boston  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Patrick Keith as overseer. Filed for 1808 (1st Jan-14th Nov).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 158
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Boston  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Leitch & Smith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Portld.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] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Boston  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Leitch & Smith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Boston  
[Stock] 98  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot) 111(F) 112(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Philip Hearn as the constituted attorney of Maurice Jones.

 
T71/151 11-174
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)  
[Name] Boston  
[Stock] 214  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)  
[Name] Boston  
[Stock] 124  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)  
[Name] Boston  
[Stock] 118  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Philip Hearn as the constituted Attorney of Maurice Jones Esq.

 
T71/152 161
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot) 119(F) 122(M)  
[Name] Boston Estate  
 

In the possession of Maurice Jones as owner.

 
T71/153 28
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)  
[Name] Boston Estate  
[Stock] 184  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot)  
[Name] Boston Estate  
[Stock] 161  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot) 115(F) 118(M)  
[Name] Boston Estate  
 

In the possession of Maurice Jones as Proprietor.

 
T71/154 39
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot)  
[Name] Boston Estate  
[Stock] 135  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Boston Estate  
[Stock] 58  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)  
[Name] Boston Estate  
[Stock] 32  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29portgeorg.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot) 107(F) 111(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Maurice Jones as Proprietor.

 
T71/155-156 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Boston Estate  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)  
[Name] Boston Estate  
[Stock] 50  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot) 107(F) 116(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Maurice Jones Esq as Proprietor.

 
T71/157 120
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot)  
[Name] Boston Estate  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to Maurice Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Portld.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.