Cornwall

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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
1812 [SY] - 14/05/1818 [ED] → Owner
1769 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Manager
1769 [EA] - 1774 [EY] → Owner
1769 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Attorney
1769 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Attorney
1770 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Not known

Filed Accounts Produce

1774 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Previous owner
1777 [EA] - 1779 [LA] → Executor
1780 [EA] - → Not known

Filed Accounts Produce.

1781 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Overseer
1785 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Overseer
1786 [EA] - → Overseer
1787 [EA] - → Attorney
1787 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1787 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1791 [EA] - → Not known
1792 [EA] - → Not known

Filed Accounts Produce.

1792 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Attorney
1793 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Not known
1796 [EA] - → Attorney
1798 [EA] - → Overseer
1799 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Overseer
1807 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Attorney
1810 [EA] - 1812 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner

Associated Claims (1)

£4,291 17S 6D

Estate Information (62)

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1763
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Westmoreland in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a cattle mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1769
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. now of the Kingdom of Great Britain and under the care and direction of Samuel William Haughton, Julines Herring and John Somerville Esqs. Account filed by Robert Nichols, gentleman

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 67
1770
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. now of the Kingdom of Great Britain and under the care and direction of Samuel William Haughton, Julines Herring and John Somerville Esqs. Account filed by Robert Nichols, gentleman

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 66
1771
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. now of the Kingdom of Great Britain and under the care and direction of Samuel William Haughton, Julines Herring and John Somerville Esqs. Account filed by Robert Nichols, gentleman

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 66
1772
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. now of the Kingdom of Great Britain and under the care and direction of Samuel William Haughton, Julines Herring and John Somerville Esqs. Account filed by Robert Nichols, gentleman

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 65
1773
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. now of the Kingdom of Great Britain and under the care and direction of Samuel William Haughton, Julines Herring and John Somerville Esqs. Account filed by Robert Nichols, gentleman

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 65
1774
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Estate of William Lewis Esquire, deceased. Account filed by John Somerville Esquire, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 144
1775
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Estate of William Lewis Esquire, deceased. Account filed by John Somerville Esquire, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 143-144
1776
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The estate of William Lewis Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Somerville equire, attorney. Cornwall & Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 13
1777
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. deceased and under the care and direction of William Lewis Esq. as acting executor of the last will and testament of the said William Lewis Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Lewis Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 151
1778
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. deceased and under the care and direction of William Lewis Esq. as acting executor of the last will and testament of the said William Lewis Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Lewis Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 152
1779
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. deceased and now under the care and direction of William Lewis as acting executor of the last will and testament of William Lewis Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 113
1780
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The estate of William Lewis Esquire deceased. Account filed by William Kitchen. Cornwall & Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 25-26
1781
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, flour, cattle, cart hire  
 

Account filed for 1 January 1781 to 1 October 1781. No ownership details given. Account filed by Robert Fullarton, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 91
1782
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, copper, timber  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by Robert Fullarton, overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 185-186
1783
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Fullarton as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 99
1785
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Grant, overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 50
1786
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Cope, overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 113
1786
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, old copper, hire of enslaved people, logwood  
 

Account filed by John Grant as overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 136
1787
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Account filed by Francis Grant as attorney to Messrs Stephen and Rose Fuller the mortgagees in possession of the estate of William Long Esquire deceased. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 196-205 f.100-104
1787
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Grant as overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 26
1788
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by John Grant as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01/1788 to 31/12/1788. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 217 f.118
1789
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Grant as overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 313 f.155
1790
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by John Grant as overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 277-278
1791
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Andrew Jardine. Cornwall and Black Morass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 308
1792
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Colquhoun Grant, planter of the parish of Hanover. Accounts filed for 31/12/1791 to 27/03/1792. Cornwall and Black Morass filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 111
1792
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Henry Lewis Esquire deceased. Account filed by Robert Parkinson attorney to the Cornwall and Black Morass Estates. Cornwall and Black Morass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 60-61
1793
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to the heirs of William Lewis Esquire deceased and disposed of by Mr Robert Parkinson. Account filed by Robert Parkinson attorney to Richard Watt Esquire of Liverpool.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 310-311
1794
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, old iron  
 

In the possession of Mr Robert Parkinson attorney to Richard Watt Esq of Liverpool. Account filed by Robert Davidson as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 94-95
1795
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, logwood  
 

In the possession of Mr Robert Parkinson attorney to Richard Watt Esq of Liverpool. Account filed by Robert Davidson for the year ending 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 213-214
1796
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood, steers, cows  
 

Belonging to the heirs of William Lewis, dec. Account given by Henry Hough, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1798
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William and Matthew Lewis Esq.s. Account filed by George Barnes as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 204
1799
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Westmoreland 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
 

Registered in Westmoreland in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at a vestry convened for that purpose 15/11/1799 and subsequent days. No ownership details given.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 36.
1799
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Matthew and William Lewis Esq. Account filed by Matthew Parkinson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 196
1800
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to Matthew Lewis Esq. Account filed by Matthew Parkinson as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 58-59
1801
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum and fat cattle  
 

Belonging to Matthew Lewis Esq. Account filed by Matthew Parkinson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 166
1803
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Matthew Lewis Esq. Account filed by Matthew Parkinson as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 28
1804
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood, cattle  
 

Owners name not given. Account filed in the name of Matthew Parkinson, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 99
1807
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, blacksmiths work and lime  
 

Belonging to Matthew Lewis Esq. Account filed by Matthew Parkinson as attorney to the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 81
1808
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood and livestock  
 

Belonging to Matthew Lewis Esq. Account filed by Matthew Packingon as attorney of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 176
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 345(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 396  
 

Registered to Matthew Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Westmd.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 342(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 180  
 

Registered to Matthew Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co1.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 304(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 250  
 

Registered to Matthew G. Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 307(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 287  
 

Registered to Matthew G. Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 285(Tot) 151(F) 134(M)  
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
 

In the possession of Henry W. Plummer and Purchas Lumley as attorneys to Matthew Gregory Lewis the owner.

 
T71/178 159-162
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 313(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 257  
 

Registered to heirs of Matthew G. Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 308(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 270  
 

Registered to heirs of Matthew G. Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 285(Tot) 150(F) 135(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Henry W. Plummer as attorney to the executors and trustees of Matthew Gregory Lewis deceased.

 
T71/179 Book 19 12
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 306(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 96  
 

Registered to heirs of Matthew G. Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 303  
 

Registered to heirs of Matthew G. Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
 

In the possession of Henry Waite Plummer as attorney to the trustees and executors of Matthew G. Lewis Esquire deceased on Cornwall Estate.

 
T71/180 Book 7 6 to 7
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 292(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 323  
 

Registered to heirs of Matthew T. Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 292(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 103  
 

Registered to heirs of Matthew Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot) 141(F) 121(M)  
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
 

In the possession of Henry Waite Plummer as attorney to the trustees and executors of Matthew Lewis deceased.

 
T71/181 152-153
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 284(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to heirs of Matthew Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 280(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 96  
 

Registered to heirs of Matthew G. Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot) 141(F) 112(M)  
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
 

In the possession of Henry Waite Plummer as attorney to the trustees and executors of Matthew Gregory Lewis Esquire.

 
T71/184 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 277(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 134  
 

Registered to heirs of Matthew G. Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 134  
 

Registered to heirs of Matthew G. Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 251(Tot) 138(F) 113(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Henry Waite Plummer as attorney to the trustees and executors of Matt. Gregory Lewis Esquire deceased.

 
T71/189 326
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 132  
 

Registered to heirs of Matthew G. Lewis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Westmd.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.