Associated People (6) |
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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:
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1823 [SY] - 1823 [EY] → Seller
William Fraser Tytler and his wife Margaret Cussans sold 51 enslaved people to Priscilla Franks, probably from Airy Castle. |
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1790 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Owner
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1792 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Previous owner
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1794 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Not known
Shown as acting trustee in 1794 and then 'in the possession of' or 'registered to' George Grant in an unidentified capacity |
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1817 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
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1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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Associated Claims (2) |
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£35 5S 6D
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£1,541 2S 7D
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Estate Information (27) |
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1789
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William Donaldson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 443 f.219
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1790
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of James Murray Esquire. Account filed by John White as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 57-58 [f.23]
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1791
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of James Murray Esquire. Account filed by John White as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 130
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1792
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of heirs of James Murray Esquire deceased. Account filed by John White as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 103
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1793
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow Property of the heirs of James Murray Esq deceased. Account filed by John White as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1793.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 56
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1794
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of the heirs of James Murray Esq deceased in the possession of James Renny Esq acting attorney of George Grant Esq the acting trustee for the deceased. Account filed by Edward Barton.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 213
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1795
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum In the possession of George Grant Esq. Account filed by Thomas Urquhart as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 213-214
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1796
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account given by George Grant Esq. Account filed by Thomas Urquhart, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Thomas Urquhart, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 105
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1798
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum In the possession of George Grant Esq. Account filed by Thomas Urquhart as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 225
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1798
[Name] Airy Castle
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with a windmill 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
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1799
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum In the possession of George Grant Esq. Account filed by Thomas Urquhart as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 27-28
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1800
[Name] Airy Castle Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, stock In the possession of George Grant Esq. Account filed by Thomas Urquhart as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 106-107
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1801
[Name] Airy Castle Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum Under the care and direction of Thomas Urquhart Accounts filed for 1800-1801.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 120
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1803
[Name] Airy Castle
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Thomas Urquhart as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 50-51
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1804
[Name] Airy Castle Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum Owner not given. Account filed in the name of Alexander Keith, overseer to said estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 141
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1807
[Name] Airy Castle
[Crop] sugar, rum and tin In the possession of George Grant Esq. Account filed by Alexander McGregor as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 34
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1810
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot)
[Name] Airy Castle [Stock] 35 Registered to George Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)
[Name] Airy Castle Registered to George Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1811.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)
[Name] Airy-Castle [Stock] 43 Registered to George Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1815.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)
[Name] Airy Castle [Stock] 43 Registered to George Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1817.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot) 63(F) 60(M)
[Name] Airy Castle Estate In the possession of John Shaw as attorney to George Grant Esq owner of Airy Castle Estate.
T71/145 308-311
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)
[Name] Airy Castle [Stock] 37 Registered to George Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1819.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)
[Name] Airy Castle [Stock] 24 Registered to George Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1820.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)
[Name] Airy Castle Estate In the possession of John Junor as attorney to George Grant Esq owner of Airy Castle Estate.
T71/146 157-158
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)
[Name] Airy Castle [Stock] 57 Registered to George Grant.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1821.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 7(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Charles Scott as attorney to the Heirs of George Grant decd. All listed as "By sale" but no vendor's details..
T71/147 143-146
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2025
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Airy Castle [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/192 [accessed 13th January 2025].
