Guilsbro 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
1811 [SY] - 1826 [EY] → Guardian
1811 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
- 1811 [EY] → Owner
1774 [EA] - → Owner
1799 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Owner
1803 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

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£3,288 9S 6D

Estate Information (32)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Gilsboro/ Gilsborough  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 72  
 

Listed as belonging to Simon Lawrence Lawrence with 3 men bearing arms and 2 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 61 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
1799
[Name] Gilsborough  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a watermill and 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1799
[Name] Guilsbro Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by William Hunter overseer. The property of John Ashton Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 136
1800
[Name] Guisbro' Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by William Hunter as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 52
1801
[Name] Guilsbro Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner not recorded. Account filed by Robert Wall as overseer (?). Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 158
1803
[Name] Guilsbro Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of John Jarrett Esq. Account filed by Peter McKinlay as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 80
1804
[Name] Guilsbro Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Jarrett, Esq,of Great Britain. Account given in the name of David Kerr, Esq, attorney for said plantation. Account filed in the name of John Fletcher,overseer of said plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 117
1807
[Name] Guilsborough  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Fletcher as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 69
1808
[Name] Gilsboro  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Fletcher as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 194-195
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to John Janett.

 
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] 233(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to John Janett.

 
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.
1811
[Name] Guilsborough  
 

Bequeathed by Herbert Newton Jarrett IV to his second son Stephen Jarrett.

 
PROB 11/1526/187
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro'  
[Stock] 93  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro'  
[Stock] 102  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 191(Tot) 96(F) 95(M)  
[Name] Guilsbro' Estate  
 

In the possession of Edward Earl as attorney to the trustee for the estate of the late John & H. N. Jarrett.

 
T71/201 503-508
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro'  
[Stock] 207  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 190(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro'  
[Stock] 97  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro Estate  
 

In the possession of Edward Earl as Attorney by substitution of Mrs Ann Jarrett, the Guardian of her children, John and Stephen Jarrett, both infants.

 
T71/205 159-167
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro'  
[Stock] 101  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro'  
[Stock] 93  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 180(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney by substitution of Mrs Ann Jarrett, the Guardian of her children, John and Stephen Jarrett, both infants.

 
T71/210 42
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbrough  
[Stock] 82  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro'  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 181(Tot) 92(F) 89(M)  
[Name] Guilsbro Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney by substitution to Mrs Ann Jarrett, the Guardian of her child, Stephen Jarrett, an infant.

 
T71/214 219-220
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro'  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro'  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Stephen Jarrett.

 
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] 184(Tot) 92(F) 92(M)  
[Name] Guilsbro' Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney to Stephen Jarrett, the owner.

 
T71/218 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsborough and Spring Garden  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Stephen Jarrett. Number of enslaved people and stock unclear as faded.

 
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] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro and Spring Garden  
[Stock] 83  
 

Registered to Stephen Jarrett.

 
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] 178(Tot) 87(F) 91(M)  
[Name] Guilsbro' Estate  
 

In the possession of William M Kerr as Attorney to Stephen Jarrett.

 
T71/222 389
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Guilsbro'  
 

Registered to Stephen Jarrett.

 
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] Guilsbro  
[Size] 762  
 

Registered to Stephen Janett.

 
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.