Orange Hill Penn

Estate Details


Associated People (5)

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] - 1771 [LA] → Joint owner

Anon., Memoir of the late William Wright (Edinburgh, 1828) p. 29 shows him and Dr Thomas Steel as building Orange Hill and holding 33 enslaved people in 1771.

1789 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Previous owner
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner

Notes

Orange Hill estate in Trelawney appears in three guises - in the Accounts Produce owned by the heirs of Thomas Steele; in the almanacs owned by John Hewan and in the slave registers owned by John Anderson. These have tentatively been listed as one estate.


Estate Information (23)

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1789
[Name] Orange Hill Penn  
[Crop] cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Thomas Steel Esquire deceased. Account filed by George Lewis as penn keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 215 [f.108]
1790
[Name] Orange Hill Penn  
[Crop] cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Dr Thomas Steel Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Cunningham executor to the deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 354-355
1791
[Name] Orange Hill Penn  
[Crop] cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Thomas Steel Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Cunningham his executor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 145 [f.67]
1792
[Name] Orange Hill Penn  
[Crop] cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Thomas Steel Esquire deceased. Account filed by Andrew McLean as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 11
1793
[Name] Orange Hill Penn  
[Crop] Mules, cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Thomas Steel Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Cunningham executor to his estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 340-341 [f.171]
1794
[Name] Orange Hill Penn  
[Crop] Mules, cattle, pasturage  
 

Property of Thomas Steele Esq deceased. Account filed by John Cunningham as executor to deceased's estate for the year to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 166-167
1795
[Name] Orange Hill  
[Crop] mules, cattle  
 

Property of Thomas Steele Esq deceased. Account filed by George Dickson as overseer for the period 01/01/1795 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 243
1796
[Name] Orange Hill Penn  
[Crop] Steers, cows, heifers, pasturage  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Thomas Steel dec. Account filed by George Dickson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Orange Hill Pen  
[Crop] Pasturage and stock  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Thomas Steele, deceased. Account filed by George Dickson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 108
1798
[Name] Orange Hill Penn  
[Crop] cattle  
 

Property of the heirs of Thomas Steel. Account filed by George Dickson as overseer for the period 01/01/1798 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 102
1799
[Name] Orange Hill Pen  
[Crop] Pasturage, cattle  
 

Account filed by John Simpson. The property of the Heirs of Thomas Steele deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 137-138
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to John Hewan.

 
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] 84(Tot)  
[Name] Orange-Hill  
 

Registered to John Hewan.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to Barbara Hewan.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot) 25(F) 27(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Barbara Hewan as owner.

 
T71/226 1241-1242
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Hill  
[Stock] 39  
 

Registered to heirs of John Hewan.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Anderson as owner. 9 enslaved people purchased from "Hynd & McBean & returned by them in Saint James" 6 "by purchase from William Gordon and registered by him in Saint James 1820".

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Hill  
[Stock] 37  
 

Registered to John Anderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 22(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Hill  
[Stock] 43  
 

Registered to Dr. John Anderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot) 9(F) 11(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Anderson as owner.

 
T71/234 [unpaginated]
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Hill  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to Dr. John Anderson, assessed.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Hill  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to Dr. J. Anderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 7(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Anderson as owner. Increase of 5 enslaved people through purchase, decrease of 19 by sale.

 
T81/236 [unpaginated]