Hillside

Estate Details


Associated People (6)

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
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Trustee
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner

Associated Claims (1)

£1,637 18S 8D

Estate Information (22)

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1798
[Name] Millennium Hall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with a cattle mill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica. Assumed to be Rural Vale as this estate is in the same place in the map of 1890.

 
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.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot)  
[Name] Hill Side  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Richard Welch with 103 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 50.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
[Name] Hillside  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of 1809.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot)  
[Name] Hillside  
[Stock] 43  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot)  
[Name] Hill Side  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_01.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 56(F) 69(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Richard Welch as owner.

 
T71/25 637-640
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Hill Side  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Hill Side  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Richard Welch as owner.

 
T71/26 426
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Hill Side  
[Stock] 41  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Hill Side  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot) 63(F) 79(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Seton Lane and Samuel Hyde as attornies to Richard Welch.

 
T71/27 200
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
[Name] Hill Side  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Hill Side  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Seton Lane and Samuel Hyde as attornies to Richard Welch esq.

 
T71/28 99
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Hill Side  
 

Registered to the estate of Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot) 39(F) 43(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Page as executor to Samuel Hyde surviving trustee of Richard Welch deceased.

 
T71/30 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot)  
[Name] Hill Side  
 

Registered to the estate of Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot)  
[Name] Hillside  
 

Registered to the estate of Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Page Esquire as executor to Samuel Hyde as trustee of Richard Welch deceased.

 
T71/32 257
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot)  
[Name] Hillside  
 

Registered to the estate of R. Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIV.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1839
[Name] Hillside  
[Size] 436  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Cray Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thosvale.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.