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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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Owner
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1809 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
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1817 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
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1817 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
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1820 [EA] - → Attorney
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1820 [EA] - → Joint owner
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1820 [EA] - 1820 [EY] → Joint owner
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1820 [EA] - 1823 [EY] → Joint owner
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1820 [EA] - 1826 [EY] → Joint owner
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1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - → Attorney
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1835 [EA] - → Receiver
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1835 [EA] - → Receiver
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1845 [EA] - 1845 [LA] → Joint owner
Robert Shedden of Palace Chambers left his 2/10ths share in Stewart Castle to his mother in his will [made in 1845] proved in 1850. He was probably too young to have been the Robert Shedden who was one of the recipients of slave compensation for the estate in the 1830s, whom LBS has concluded was his uncle Robert Shedden jun. |
Associated Claims (1) |
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£6,259 8S 10D
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Estate Information (23) |
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1786
[Name] Stewart Castle Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento Account filed by John Murdock, overseer and Robert Stirling, trustee.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 197
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1799
[Name] Stewart-Castle
[Crop] Sugar Plotted In Trelawny as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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.
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 302(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 402 Registered to Hon. James Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Trel.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 348(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 109 Registered to Hon. James Stewart.
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.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 300(Tot)
[Name] Stewart-Castle Registered to Hon James Stewart. Number of stock unclear - 30?
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 368(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 240 Registered to Hon. James Stewart.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot) 18(F) 24(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of John Robert Mitchell as Attorney of Messieurs Robert Shedden & sons.
T71/227 1563-1564
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot) 123(F) 135(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of John Robert Mitchell as Attorney to Messieurs Robert Shedden and Sons, Mortgagees in Possession, James Stewart as Owner.
T71/227 1569-1580
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 376(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 272 Registered to Honorable James Stewart.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle In the possession of James Cunningham as Attorney to Messieurs Robert Shedden & Sons the Owners. 258 enslaved people acquired "By purchase. Returned by John Robert Mitchell as Attorney to Messieurs Robert Shedden & Sons Mortgagees in possession Trelawny, but now the Property of Robert Shedden, George Shedden, William Shedden and Bartlett Bridger Shedden, the Equity of redemption in these Slaves having been released by James Stewart & Wife".
T71/230 Unpaginated
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 367(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 250 Registered to Robert Shedden and sons.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 242 Registered to Robert Shedden and Sons.
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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle In the possession of John Cleghorn as Attorney to Messieurs Robert Shedden & Sons the owners.
T71/232 [unpaginated]
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 228 Registered to Robert Shedden and Sons.
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.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 282(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 235 Registered to Robert Shedden and Sons.
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.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle In the possession of John Cleghorn as Attorney to Messieurs Robert Shedden & sons the Owners.
T71/234 [unpaginated]
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 228 Registered to Robert Shedden and Sons.
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.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 182 Registered to Robert Shedden and Sons.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 282(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle Estate In the possession of John Cleghorn as attorney to Robert Shedden & sons, the owners, on Stewart Castle Estate.
T71/240 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 77 Registered to Robert Shedden and Sons.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 289(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 207 Registered to Robert Shedden and Sons.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle [Stock] 70 Registered to Robert & Sons Shedden.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot)
[Name] Stewart Castle Estate In the possession of James Galloway as Attorney of Messieurs Robert Shedden & sons.
T71/241 211
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1781 - 14th Jun 1863
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family. London and Bristol merchant and banker (Baillie, Ames & Baillie), major recipient of slave compensation across the Caribbean.
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 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Stewart Castle Estate [ Jamaica | Trelawny ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/1941 [accessed 11th October 2024].
