Newry Estate

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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
1759 [EA] - 1781 [EY] → Owner
1781 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

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£3,717 9S 8D

Estate Information (41)

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1759
[Name] Newry Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to John Ellis Esquire, under the direction of Doctor John Gordon, his attorney. Account filed by attornies John Gordon, one of his attorneys. Green Castle and Newry Plantations, Fort George Penn filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 135-136
1761
[Name] Newry Plantation  
[Crop] Green Castle and Newry:sugar, rum, molasses. Fort George: cattle, horses  
 

Belonging to John Ellis Esquire, under the direction of the Honourable William Nedham and John Gordon, his attorneys. Account filed by George Gordon, overseer for Green Castle; Alexander Campbell, overseer for Newry; and John Grant, overseer for Fort George Penn. Green Castle and Newry Plantations, Fort George Penn all filed together. Crops filed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 217
1762
[Name] Newry  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Ellis Esq. under the direction of William Nedham and John Gordon Esq as attorneys

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 5
1782
[Name] Newry  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Richard Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 146
1783
[Name] Newry  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Richard Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 151
1784
[Name] Newry  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the estate of John Ellis Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richard Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 167-8
1787
[Name] Newry Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Ellis Esq; account filed by Richard Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 109-110
1788
[Name] Newry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Ellis Esquire. Account filed by Richard Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 44
1789
[Name] Newry  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper and brass, one horse  
 

The property of John Ellis Esquire. Account filed by Henry Hough. Accounts filed for 27/02 1789 to 31/12/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 275-276 f.138
1790
[Name] Newry  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of John Ellis Esquire. Account filed by Henry Hough.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 265 and 269 [f.134]
1791
[Name] Newry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Ellis Esquire. Account filed by Henry Hough.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 380-383
1792
[Name] Newry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The properties of John Ellis Esquire. Account filed by Henry Hough as attorney. Greencastle, Nutfield and Newry Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 133-134
1793
[Name] Newry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Henry Hough as attorney for his estates

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 101
1794
[Name] Newry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Henry Hough as attorney for his estates. Green Castle, Nutfield and Newry estates and Fort George Penn filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 157
1795
[Name] Newry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Henry Hough as attorney for the estates. Green Castle, Nutfield and Newry estates, Fort George Penn, Montpelier Old Works and Montpelier New Works, Whydalis Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 257-258
1796
[Name] Newry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cows, calves, heifers, mules  
 

Belonging to John Ellis Esq. Account given by Henry Hough, attorney. Green Castle, Nutfield and Newry Estates and Fort George Pen filed together.

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

Account filed by Henry Hough of the parish of St Mary for the period 31/12/1796 to 31/12 1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 53
1798
[Name] Shortwood  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In St Andrew as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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.
1798
[Name] Newry  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with two cattle mills and a windmill 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1800
[Name] Newry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, ginger, coffee, cocoa, piemento and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Ellis Esquire. Account filed by Richard Appletonas attorney to John Ellis Esq. Accounts filed for 1799-1800. Greencastle, Nuffield and Newry Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 117-118
1807
[Name] Newry  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Ellis Esq. Account filed by Willliam Heslop as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 78
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
[Stock] 184  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 883(Tot) 461(F) 472(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Thomas P Rodgers, attorney to John Ellis. Assumed to be Greencastle, Newry and Nutfield Estates.

 
T 71/33 925-950
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 237(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
[Stock] 192  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 860(Tot) 451(F) 409(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Thomas P Rogers, attorney to John Ellis. Assumed to be Greencastle, Newry and Nutfield Estates.

 
T 71/34 204-206
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
[Stock] 158  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
[Stock] 164  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 835(Tot) 435(F) 400(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Isaac Higgins and James Lawes, attornies to John Ellis, owner. Assumed to be Greencastle, Newry and Nutfield Estates.

 
T 71/35 225-228
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
[Stock] 172  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
[Stock] 169  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 247(Tot) 119(F) 128(M)  
[Name] Newry Estate  
 

Isaac Higgin, attorney to John Ellis [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/36 482-484
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 251(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
[Stock] 186  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
[Stock] 116  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot) 119(F) 128(M)  
[Name] Newry Estate  
 

James Lawes, attorney to John Ellis [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/37 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot) 102(F) 116(M)  
[Name] Newry Estate  
 

John Blair, attorney of John Ellis [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/41 27
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] Newry  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Newry  
[Size] 937  
 

Registered to John Ellis.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.