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Tophill

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Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
1796 [EA] - 1797 [LA] → Not known
John Chorley

"In the possession of", perhaps owner or mortgagee-in-possession

1798 [EA] - → Not known
George Cuthbert

Possibly mortgagees-in-possession

1798 [EA] - → Not known
Lewis Cuthbert

Possibly mortgagees-in-possession

Estate Information (6)

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1787
[Name] Tophill  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Simmons. Tophill and Preston filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 17 f.9
1787
[Name] Tophill and Preston Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Messrs Mitchell and Daggers attorneys for the mortgagees; account filed by John Simmons, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 97
1796
[Name] Top Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steer  
 

Belonging to John Chorley, Esq. Account filed by Richard Jones. Preston and Top Hill Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Top Hill  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

In the possession of John Chorley Esq. Account filed by Rich.d Jones as overseer for the period 01/01/1797 to 31/12/1797. Preston and Top Hill filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 46
1798
[Name] Top Hill  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Lewis and George Cuthberts Esq.s. Account filed by Richard Jones as overseer for the period 01/01/1798 to 31/12/1798. Preston and Top Hill filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 221
1799
[Name] Tophill  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Richard Jones overseer. In the posession of Lewis and George Cuthbert Esquire. Preson and Tophill filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 185-186