Associated People (5) |
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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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1757 [EA] - → Owner
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1778 [EA] - 1778 [LA] → Owner
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1796 [EA] - 1857 [LA] → Annuitant
An annuity of £500 currency was settled on Mary Murray Ross and her husband Oliver Hering on their marriage in 1793 an secured on Paul Island 1796. |
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1810 [EA] - 1837 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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Associated Claims (2) |
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£1,865 15S 8D
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£1,079 13S 4D
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Estate Information (25) |
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1757
[Name] Paul Island
Owned by John Parkinson in 1757.
Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (Chapel Hill, 2004) p. 46-47.
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1763
[Name] Paul Island
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in Westmoreland in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a cattle mill.
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
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1778
[Name] Paul Island
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Julines Herring Esq. Account filed by Robert Kay as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 62
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1782
[Name] Paul Island Esate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle No ownership details. Account filed by John Arthur, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 174
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1799
[Name] Paul Island
[Crop] Sugar Plotted In Westmoreland as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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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1810
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 226 Registered to Oliver Herring.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Westmd.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 123 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co1.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] 286(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 209 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15west.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] 275(Tot) 134(F) 141(M)
[Name] Paul Island Sugar Estate In the possession of George Gordon as attorney to Oliver Herring the owner.
T71/178 184-186
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island and Mount Cromwell [Stock] 309 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 280 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p14.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] 233(Tot) 116(F) 117(M)
[Name] Paul Island Estate In the possession of George Gordon as attorney for Oliver Herring.
T71/179 Book 17 5
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 237(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 276 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 240 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p14.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] 227(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island Estate In the possession of George Gordon as attorney to Oliver Herring on Paul Island Estate.
T71/180 Book 6 4
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 214 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 230 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al16.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] 210(Tot) 103(F) 107(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of George Gordon as attorney to Oliver Herring Esquire.
T71/181 263
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 92 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al16.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] 190(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 78 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29west.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] 192(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island Estate In the possession of George Gordon as attorney to Oliver Herring the owner and settled on Paul Island Estate.
T71/183 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 123 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831west.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] 186(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 87 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32west.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] 173(Tot)
[Name] Paul Island [Stock] 36 Registered to Oliver Hering.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Westmd.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] 168(Tot) 83(F) 85(M)
[Name] Paul Island Estate In the possession of George Gordon as attorney to Oliver Herring Esquire and settled upon Paul Island Estate.
T71/189 249
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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:
'Paul Island [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/210 [accessed 19th April 2024].
