Sunderland 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
1807 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Not known

Registered by Edmund Francis Green as attorney for William Mitchell executor and trustee of John Morse. Morse the was the previous owner or previously mortgage-in-possession: 1817, Jan. 30. Ind. between Peter Martineau the Younger of London, sugar refiner, and. Geo. Green of L[ondon], Merchant, assig. of estate of Robert Green late of L[ondon], M[erchan]t, bankrupt, and Rob. Green. Whereas John Morse late of L[ondon]., Esq., decd, being seized of a plantation in J[amaica], made his will 29 Sep. 1777. His plantations or penns called Y. S., Ipswich, Unity and Sunderland in St Eliz. near the ports of Martha Brae and Montego Bay. Assignment of a share of 1/5 recites assigt of 11 Dec. 1784 betw. Nath. Middleton, Esq., and Ann his wife (f. A. Morse) assig. 1/2 of 1/5 to Rob. M., [=Robt. Green?] &c. Lease for a year.

1809 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1834 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession

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£2,870 5S 8D

Estate Information (48)

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1772
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Andrew Martin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 206
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 108  
 

Listed as belonging to Lynch & James with 5 men bearing arms and 2 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 128 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1781
[Name] Sunderland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by William Campbell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 42
1782
[Name] Sunderland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Michael Rivers.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 155-156
1783
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by George McCullock.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 32-3
1784
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by George McCullock as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 209
1786
[Name] Sunderland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by George McCulloch.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 162
1786
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Callander planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 167
1787
[Name] Sunderland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Harding planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 211
1788
[Name] Sunderland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Harding planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 240
1789
[Name] Sunderland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Harding planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 304-305 f.151
1790
[Name] Sunderland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Harding planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 283 [f.141]
1791
[Name] Sunderland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Harding planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 300
1792
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Harding, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 108
1793
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of labour  
 

Account filed by John Harding planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 357 [f.179]
1794
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] sugar, rum, labour hire  
 

Account filed by William Hamilton for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 7
1795
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] sugar, rum, labour hire  
 

Account filed by William Hamilton for the period 31/12/1794 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 239-240
1796
[Name] Sunderland Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum,hire of enslaved people, rent, iron hoops, heifers, old still  
 

Account filed by William Hamilton, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Sunderland Plantation?  
[Crop] sugar, rum, mule hire, hire of enslaved people for 8 yrs, public paper? with interest  
 

Account given and filed by William Hamilton, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 107
1798
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Hamilton overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 25
1799
[Name] Sunderland Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Peter McKenley overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 200-201
1799
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and 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.
1800
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Peter McKinlay as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 138-139
1801
[Name] Sunderland Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Peter McKinlay as overseer Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 139
1803
[Name] Sunderland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Esq. Account filed by Samuel Vaughan estate manager of the parish of St James. Includes names of slaves purchased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 173-174
1807
[Name] Sunderland  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the care of Edmund Francis Green as attorney for William Mitchell Esq. executor and trustee of John Morse Esq. deceased. Account filed by Edmund Francis Green. Filed for 1st July 1806-1st July 1807.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 53
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to Edmund Green.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.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] 480(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 290  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Gran[sic].

 
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] 212(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 108  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 130  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot) 114(F) 94(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Charles Farquhar as attorney of Edmund Francis Green joint owner with others.

 
T71/202 448-453
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 177  
 

Registered to --- heirs of Morse.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 131  
 

Registered to heirs of --- Morse.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Green as Attorney to Edmund Francis Green and others, owners.

 
T71/207 134-135
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 135  
 

Registered to William Murray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 140  
 

Registered to Francis Green.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Irving as Acting for Robert Green, Attorney to Edmund Francis Green and others, owners.

 
T71/211 145-148
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 74  
 

Registered to Francis George Smyth.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 134  
 

Registered to Francis G. Smyth.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland Estate  
 

In the possession of John Irving as Attorney to Francis George Smyth Esq.

 
T71/215 87-88
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to Francis G. Smyth.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
 

Registered to Francis G. Smyth. Number of enslaved people unclear. Number of stock not given as page is torn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Irving as Attorney to Francis George Smyth Esq.

 
T71/220 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to Francis G. Smyth.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 163  
 

Registered to Francis G. Smyth.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland Estate  
 

In the possession of Theodora Stone as Attorney to Francis G Smyth Esq.

 
T71/223 225
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Sunderland  
[Stock] 326  
 

Registered to Francis G. Smyth.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Sunderland  
[Size] 904  
 

Registered to Francis G. Smyth.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.