UCL

Hopewell

Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
- 1800 [EY] → Owner
John Murray MP
1810 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
John Murray
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
Jacob Neufville
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
John Mackenzie or McKenzie
1826 [EA] - → Owner
Gilbert Mathison

Mathison is shown as having purchased enslaved people on Hopewell in 1826, but thereafter the people appear to have reverted to the heirs of John Murray. The reported purchase appears anomalous: Mathison, a London merchant, was in financial difficulty in 1826.

1826 [EA] - → Attorney
John Randal Phillips (attorney in Jamaica)
1828 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
John Murray
1829 [EA] - → Other
Archibald Kennedy

'At present in possession'

Estate Information (20)

What is this?

1810
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to John Murray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to John Murray.

 
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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to John Murray.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to John Murray.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot) 48(F) 50(M)  
[Name] Hopewell Estate  
 

In the possession of Jacob Neufville Esq attorney of John Murray Esq owner of Hopewell Estate.

 
T71/145 570-573
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 17  
 

Registered to John Murray.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 17  
 

Registered to John Murray.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John McKenzie as attorney for John Murray.

 
T71/146 334
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 65  
 

Registered to John Murray.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 50  
 

Registered to John Murray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1823.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Mackenzie as attorney for John Murray.

 
T71/147 264-265
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 61  
 

Registered to John Murray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1825.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 58  
 

Registered to John Murray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1826.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Randal Phillips Esq as attorney for Gilbert Matheson Esq; increase owing to 5 births and purchase of 67 enslaved people from John Murray .

 
T71/148 226-228
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to John Murray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1827.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
 

Registered to heirs of John Murray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1828.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell Plantation  
 

In the possession of Archibald Kennedy as at present in possession of Hopewell Plantation.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
 

Registered to heirs of John Murray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1830
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to heirs of John Murray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1831.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Hopewell  
[Stock] 77  
 

Registered to heirs of John Murray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1832.