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Breadnut Island

Jamaica | Westmoreland

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
1766 [SY] - 1786 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Thistlewood

Estate Information (4)

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1767
[Name] Breadnut Island [originally called Paradise]  
[Size] 300  
 

Thistlewood bought a half-share in Breadnut Island (named later by himself) 03/07/1767. The estate consisted of 300 acres just north-east of Savanna-la-Mar. Apparently bought from Sarah Bennett.

 
Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (Chapel Hill, 2004) pp. 10, 40.
1781
[Name] Breadnut Island  
[Size] 160  
 

160 acres, of which 60-70 acres were "Negro grounds and pastures, very clean; most of the rest is a rich open morass, great part of which in the dry season is good pasturage; it affords fish of various sorts, more especially mudfish, also crabs, and in the season plenty of wild fowl."

 
Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (Chapel Hill, 2004) p. 10.
1786
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot) 22(F) 12(M)  
[Name] Breadnut Island  
 

Number of enslaved people given in the probate record for the estate of Thomas Thistlewood.

 
Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784
1789
[Name] Breadnut Island  
 

Sold by Thistlewood's remaining executor, Charles Payne, for £600.

 
Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (Chapel Hill, 2004) p. 40