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Mount Pleasant

Jamaica | St Ann

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
1778 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Owner
William Edwards
1795 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
William Edwards junior

Estate Information (13)

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1778
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Account filed by John Angwin as attorney for William Edwards. (See also entries of pimento Walk).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 130
1778
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of William Edwards an absentee. Account filed by John Angwin as planter attorney to William Edwards. Noted as adjacent to pimento Walk.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 74
1779
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pimento  
 

This entry filed as 'the estate of George Edwards a minor.' Noted that a pimento walk and enslaved people had been rented to George Lawrence. Account filed by John Angwin as guardian for George Edwards.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 133
1780
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Property of William Edwards Esquire an absentee. Account filed by John Angwin attorney for William Edwards.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 36-37
1790
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
[Crop] pimento  
 

The property of William Hind Esquire. Account filed by Duncan Falconer as overseer. Accounts filed for 04/06/1790 to 31/12/ 1790.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 401 [f.200]
1794
[Name] Mount Pleasant Planation  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Belonging to William Edwards. Account given by Adam Anderson, Esq, attorney. Account filed by O'Sulivan Sutherland, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1795
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pasturage, crop [not specified]  
 

Belonging to William Edwards Junior a minor. Account filed by Adam Anderson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 125
1796
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Property of William Edwards Esq. Account filed by John Maclachlan as overseer for the period 31/12/1795 to 31/12 1796.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 46
1797
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Belonging to W.m Edwards Esq on the order of James Campbell and John Blagrove Esq.s attornies for the plantation. Account filed by John Maclachlan as overseer for the year ending 31/12 1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 47
1799
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Account filed by John McLachlan. Trust to Adam Anderson Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 48
1799
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] pimento, fustick  
 

In trust to Adam Anderson. Account filed by William Reid as superintendent of the property for the period 01/03/1799 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 170
1800
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] pimento  
 

In trust to [?]. Account filed by Rose Coombs for the year ending 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 37
1801
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] pimento  
 

Estate in Trust to Adam Anderson Esq. Account filed by Thomas Harris Monk (?) as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 183