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Casement

Jamaica | St Elizabeth

Estate Details

Associated People (10)

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
- 1768 [EY] → Owner
William Foster of Bedford

William Foster's will stated that he had bought Casements in St Elizabeth from Ezekiel, Caleb and Vickris Dickinson.

1768 [SY] - 1799 [LA] → Joint owner
John Foster of Bedford
1768 [SY] - 1799 [LA] → Joint owner
Frederick William Foster
1768 [EA] - → Previous owner
Caleb Dickinson of Kingweston
1768 [EA] - → Previous owner
Vickris Dickinson
1768 [EA] - → Previous owner
Ezekiel Dickinson
1782 [EA] - → Previous owner
William Foster of Bedford
1782 [EA] - → Attorney
John Vanheelen
1798 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Attorney
Henry Waite Plummer
1798 [EA] - → Overseer
Thomas Frith

Estate Information (3)

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1782
[Name] Casement plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, rental of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of William Foster Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Vanheelen, attorney. Bogue and Casement filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 157-158
1798
[Name] Casement Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of Frederick Wm and Jn. Foster Esq.s under the direction of Henry W Plummer. Account filed by Thomas Frith as overseer on the Bogue Estate for the year ending 31/12/1798. Bogue and Casement plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 200-201
1799
[Name] Casement Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to Frederick William and John Foster Esq.s under the direction of Henry W Plummer their attorney. Account filed by said Henry Plummer as attorney for Bogue Estate for the year ending 31/12/1799. Bogue and Casement plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 53-54