Nutt's River

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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
- 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Caroline Anne, the elder daughter of Richard Cox (1718-1803), had married Sir Thomas Champneys of Orchardleigh, near Frome, in 1768. Sir Thomas had succeeded to estates in England, several of which he later lost. He also inherited from his uncle Anthony Swymmer a plantation in Jamaica (Nutt's River) and the Mold estate in Flintshire. Richard Cox stepped in as Sir Thomas Champneys' affairs deteriorated, mortgaging his remaining manors of Orchardleigh and Frome Selwood, along with Nutt's River. Richard Cox foreclosed on Champneys' eventual bankruptcy, and Cox & Co. held the lands until 1854.

1741 [EA] - 1760 [LA] → Owner
1771 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£5,733 0S 1D

Estate Information (59)

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1741
[Name] Nuts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Estate of Anthony Langley Swymmer a minor under the care of Joshua Crosby of the parish of St. Andrew. Account filed by John Denstone book keeper of Nuts River plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 188
1742
[Name] Nuts River  
[Crop] sugar. Rum and livestock  
 

Estate of Anthony Langley Swymmer. Account filed by William Lambie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 35
1743
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Estate of Anthony Langley Swymmer. Account filed by William Lambie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 69
1753
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Lambie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 170
1754
[Name] Nutts River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, fustick  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by William Lambie, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 23
1755
[Name] Nutts River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by William Lambie, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 9
1756
[Name] Nutts River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by William Lambie, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 33
1757
[Name] Nutts River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by William Lambie.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 53
1759
[Name] Nutts River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cattle  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by William Lambie, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 137-138
1760
[Name] Nutts River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by William Lambie, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 190
1761
[Name] Nutts River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Henry Jippet (sp?), overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 213
1762
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Henry Tippet as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 10
1763
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account filed by Henry Tippet as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 58
1764
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account filed by Henry Tippet as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 121
1765
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account filed by Edward Glasse. Under the care and attention the Hon. Zachary Bayley Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 156
1771
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce disposed of by Bryan Edwards and Joseph Orr as attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 184
1772
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce disposed of by Bryan Edwards and Joseph Orr as attorneys. Account filed by James Betty as planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 31
1773
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce disposed of by Joseph Orr as attorney. Account filed by James Betty as planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 197
1774
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce disposed of by Joseph Orr as attorney. Account filed by James Betty as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 264
1775
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce shipped and sold by desire of Joseph Orr as attorney to Champneys. Account filed by Dennis Morris as one of the agents for the said estate. Mount Alta and Nutts River listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 20
1776
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce shipped and sold by desire of Joseph Orr as attorney to Champneys. Account filed by James Betty as overseer and manager. Mount Alta and Nutts River listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 97
1778
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Account filed by John Jacques as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 63
1790
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by James Wilson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 396
1791
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John McCourtie as acting overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 217-218
1792
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jacques one of the attornies for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 190-191 [f.96]
1793
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jacques one of the attornies for the plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 423-424
1794
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of the Hon John Jacques and Kean Osborn Esq. s, attornies to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Account filed by said John Jacques.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 209
1795
[Name] Nutts River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John McCourtie?, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 44
1796
[Name] Nutts River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John McCoutie? Overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Nutts River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champney, Bt of GB. Account filed by Maynard Campbell, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 129
1798
[Name] Nutts River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Sir Thomas Champneys Bart of Great Britain. Account filed by John Rewick as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 95
1798
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and a watermill 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.
1799
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Sir Thomas Champneys Bart of Great Britain. Account filed by John Renwick.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 8
1800
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Sir Thomas Champneys Bart of Great Britain. Account filed by John Renwick.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 132
1801
[Name] Nutts River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys of the Kingdom of Great Britain Bart. Account filed by John Renwick as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 80
1803
[Name] Nutts River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Sir Thomas Champney Bart. Account filed by John Renwick as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 102
1807
[Name] Nutts River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by John Renwick as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 71-72
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)  
[Name] Natt's River  
[Stock] 160  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas Champneys, Baronet.

 
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] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Nutts River  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas Champneys.

 
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] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 147  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas Champneys.

 
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] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 127  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas Champneys.

 
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] 260(Tot) 126(F) 134(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John McKenzie Esq as attorney for Sir Thomas Champneys Baronet.

 
T71/145 151-157
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas Champneys.

 
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] 271(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas Champneys.

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

In the possession of Thomas Blakely as attorney for Sir Thomas Champneys Baronet.

 
T71/146 77-78
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas Champneys, Baronet.

 
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] 291(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 115  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas S. Champneys, Baronet.

 
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] 294(Tot)  
[Name] Nutts River Estate  
 

In the possession of Thomas Blakely Esq as Receiver for Nutts River Estate, the property of Sir Thomas Swymmer Champney Baronet.

 
T71/147 62-64
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 104  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas S. Champneys, Baronet.

 
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] 291(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 96  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas S. Champneys, Baronet.

 
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] 295(Tot)  
[Name] Nutts River Estate  
 

In the possession of Thomas Blakely as attorney for Nutts River Estate, the property of Sir Thomas S. Champneys Bart.

 
T71/148 56-57
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas S. Champneys, Baronet.

 
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] 294(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas S. Champneys, Baronet.

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

In the possession of Thomas Blakely Esq as attorney for Sir Thomas Swymmer Champneys Bart.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 292(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas S. Champneys, Baronet.

 
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] 292(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas S. Champneys, Baronet.

 
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] 292(Tot)  
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas S. Champneys, Baronet.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot) 152(F) 143(M)  
[Name] Nutts River Estate  
 

In the possession of Thomas Blakely as attorney to Sir T.S. Champneys Bart.

 
T71/150 97
1839
[Name] Nutt's River  
[Size] 1030  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas S. Champneys.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thoseast.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1839.