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Chatham

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Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner
Joseph Bromley
1817 [EA] - → Lessee
George Longmore
1817 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary
Dorothy Bromley
1817 [EA] - → Guardian
Alexander Mudie
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Lessee
Benjamin Mason
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
John Manderson
1826 [EA] - → Owner
Dorothy Bromley

Note that by 1826 Dorothy Bromley may have sold the estate but kept some of the enslaved people.

Estate Information (8)

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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 62  
 

Registered to Joseph Bromley deceased.

 
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] 45(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to Joseph Bromley deceased.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot) 21(F) 19(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Longmore as lessee from Alexander Moodie as guardian to Dorothy Bromley.

 
T71/202 30-31
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to George Longmore.

 
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] 62(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham and Rock Pleasant  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to George Longmore.

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

In the possession of Benjamin Mason as Lessee. Registered by Geo. Longmore in 1817.

 
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Mason as Lessee.

 
T71/211 184
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 13(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Manderson as Attorney to Dorothy Bromley; increase owing to registration of 10 enslaved people by Benjamin Mason as Lessee in 1823 and the registration of 3 enslaved people by Alexander Mudie as Agent in 1823.

 
T71/215 153