Stanton

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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
1754 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Owner
1792 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Owner
1806 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

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£3,161 11S 7D

Estate Information (60)

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1754
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The several Estates of William Beckford, under the direction of Richard Lewing & John Mclead. Account filed by Richard Lewing, one of the attorneys. Retreat, Rock River, Malmsey Valley, Danks, Karys's Cralie, Moores, Harbour Head, Stanton, Esher, Guamaboa, Seven Mile Walk, Stanton Estates. Crops are for all the estates combined.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 3
1754
[Name] Stanton Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The several Estates of William Beckford, under the direction of Richard Lewing & John Mclead. Account filed by Richard Lewing, one of the attorneys. Retreat, Rock River, Malmsey Valley, Danks, Karys's Cralie, Moores, Harbour Head, Stanton, Esher, Guamaboa, Seven Mile Walk, Stanton Estates. Crops are for all the estates combined.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 3
1769
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. Account filed by Joseph Collins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 203
1770
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. Account filed by Joseph Collins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 25
1771
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. Account filed by Joseph Collins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 162
1771
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by Joseph Collins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 3
1773
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. Account filed by Joseph Collins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 62
1774
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Joseph Collins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 271
1775
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Joseph Collins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 33
1776
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Joseph Collins as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 60
1778
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Henry Manning as book keeper and Patrick Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 61
1779
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Cassup as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 114
1780
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account filed by John Cassup as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 207
1781
[Name] Stanton Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by John Cassup, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 113
1782
[Name] Stanton Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by John Cassup, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 195
1783
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Cassup as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 99
1784
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Charles White as book keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 198
1786
[Name] Stanton Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Drysdale, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 184
1786
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Drysdale as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 152
1787
[Name] Stanton [?]  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Poteous as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 32
1787
[Name] Stanton [?] Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Naylor Esquire given by William Dunlop Esquire his attorney. Account filed by Thomas Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 32-33 f.17
1788
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Porteous as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 310-311 f.165
1790
[Name] Stanton Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Porteous as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 240-241
1791
[Name] Stanton Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Porteous as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 149-150
1792
[Name] Stanton Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of Wm Beckford Esquire. Account filed by James Porteous as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 85
1793
[Name] Stanton Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Beckford Esq of Fonthill. Account filed by James Porteous as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 28-29
1794
[Name] Stanton Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Beckford Esq of Fonthill. Account filed by James Porteous as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 54
1795
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Beckford Esq of Fonthill. Account filed by James Porteous as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 251
1796
[Name] Stanton Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. Account filed by James Porteous, overseer.

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

Belonging to William Beckford, Esq. Account filed by James Porteous?, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 208
1798
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and 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.
1798
[Name] Stanton Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Ponteous overseer, The property of William Beckford of Fonthill Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 51
1799
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of William Beckford Esq of Fonthill. Account filed by James Porteous as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 118-119
1800
[Name] Stanton Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by James Portus for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 124
1801
[Name] Stanton Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the care and direction of James Porteous or which he is in possession of.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 97
1803
[Name] Stanton Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by George Patton for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 155
1806
[Name] Stanton  
 

23/08/1806. 'Conveyance and assignment of slaves and cattle Between William Beckford and John Pedley relating to the transfer of the Staton [sic] Plantation in the Parish of St Thomas on the island of Jamaica. Also lists slaves and their occupations, as well as the numbers of livestock.'

 
http://catalogue.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/files/c-ddi.pdf C DDI/1/14
1807
[Name] Stanton  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by George Patton as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 234
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 135  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Staunton  
[Stock] 63  
 

Registered to John Redley.

 
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] 198(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 136  
 

Registered to John Redley.

 
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] 201(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to John Redley [Pedley?].

 
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] 201(Tot) 101(F) 100(M)  
[Name] Stanton Estate  
 

In the possession of George Patton and J C Clark as attornies for Stanton Estate the property of John Pedley Esq.

 
T71/145 630-635
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 201(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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] 198(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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] 198(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton Estate  
 

In the possession of George Patton and Joseph Charles Clarke as attornies for Stanton Estate, the property of John Pedley Esq.

 
T71/146 361-362
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 132  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 130  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton Estate  
 

In the possession of George Patton and Joseph Charles Clark attornies for Stanton Estate, the property of John Pedley Esq.

 
T71/147 290-291
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 116  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 119  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Clarke and Thomas Blakely as attornies for John Poolley Esq the proprietor of Stanton Estate.

 
T71/148 271-272
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 32  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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] 190(Tot) 103(F) 87(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Blakely Esq as attorney to John Pedley Esq.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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] 190(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Stanton  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to John Pelley.

 
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] 175(Tot) 95(F) 80(M)  
[Name] Stanton Estate  
 

In the possession of Thomas Blakely Esq as attorney to John Pedley (?) Esq.

 
T71/150 407
1839
[Name] Stanton  
[Size] 800  
 

Registered to John Pedley.

 
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.