Creighton Hall

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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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1790 [EA] - 1796 [EY] → Owner
1796 [EA] - 1811 [EY] → Owner
1811 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Owner
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

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£4,532 14S 7D

Estate Information (38)

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1782
[Name] Creighton Hale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by James O"Hara, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 152
1790
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Size] 1165  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

A plan of Creighton Hall was commissioned in 1790 when the estate was in the ownership of Robert Richards. It contained 1165 acres, of which 399 was planted in cane.

 
Barry Higman, Jamaica Surveyed (UWI Press, 2001) pp. 24-26.
1792
[Name] Creighton Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, ginger, coffee, cocoa and pimento  
 

Under the care, direction and possession of Mark Higgins. Account filed by Mark Higgins.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 139
1793
[Name] Creighton Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Patrick Kean as overseer for the period 31/12/1792 to 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 66
1794
[Name] Crighton Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Patrick Kean, the estate being in his possession, care and direction, for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 188
1795
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Crop] Muscovado sugar and rum, horned cattle  
 

Account filed by Simon Taylor?.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 8
1796
[Name] Creighton Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonhging to Fitzherbert Richards. Account given by Caleb Tonge?, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Creighton Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Owner not given. Account filed by Michael Kelly who has care and direction of estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 121
1798
[Name] Creighton Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Michael Kelly as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 162
1798
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St David as a sugar estate with a watermill 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Crighton Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Cale Tonge for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 17
1800
[Name] Creighton Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Michael Kelly for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 50
1801
[Name] Crighton Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Michael Kelly Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 223
1803
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Andrew Hunter as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 101
1804
[Name] Creighton Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner not given. Account filed in the name of Andrew Hunter, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 176
1807
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Belonging to Fitsherbert Richards Esq. Account filed by James Reid as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 75
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 294(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 96  
 

Registered to --- Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11David.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 289(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 51  
 

Registered to ____ Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton-Hall  
[Stock] 198  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitzherbert Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15davi.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 297(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 202  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitzherbert Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 297(Tot) 150(F) 147(M)  
[Name] Creighton Hall Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert William Harris as attorney to Samuel Fitzherbert and Charles Nicholas Pallmer, trustees under the will of Fitzherbert Richards deceased.

 
T71/139 129
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 293(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitzherbert Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 293(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 126  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitzherbert Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 292(Tot) 146(F) 146(M)  
[Name] Creighton Hall Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert William Harris and Charles Ayley as attorneys to Samuel Fitzherbert and Charles Nicolas Pallmer, trustees under the will of Fitzherbert Richards deceased and beloning to Creighton Hall Estate.

 
T71/140 3
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 223  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitzherbert Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 279(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 239  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitz. Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24davi.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 276(Tot) 136(F) 140(M)  
[Name] Creighton Hall Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert William Harris and Charles Ayley as Attorneys to Samuel Fitzherbert and Charles N Pallmer, trustees under the will of Fitzherbert Richards deceased and belonging to Creighton Hall Estate.

 
T71/141 1
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 271(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 228  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitz. Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 240  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitz Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot) 131(F) 133(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert William Harris as attorney.

 
T71/142 157
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 119  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitz Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 130  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitz Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29royldav.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 247(Tot) 121(F) 126(M)  
[Name] Creighton Hall Plantation  
 

In the possession of Robert William Harris as attorney to Samuel Fizherbert and Charles N Palmer, trustees under the will of Fitzherbert Richards deceased.

 
T71/143 137
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 131  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitz Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831davi.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 128  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitz Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32davi.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot)  
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Stock] 135  
 

Registered to heirs of Fitz. Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33David.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot) 117(F) 115(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Fitzherbert Batty and John Richard Ayley as attornies to Henry B Coddington Esq.

 
T71/144 3
1839
[Name] Creighton Hall  
[Size] 1850  
 

Registered to estate of Fitzherbert Richards.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40David.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.