Bellfield 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
1796 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - → Tenant-for-life
1820 [EA] - → Joint owner
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver

Associated Claims (2)

£2,443 19S 2D
£2,261 0S 2D

Estate Information (25)

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1776
[Name] Bellfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Sharpe as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 144
1777
[Name] Bellfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Sharpe as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 143
1778
[Name] Bellfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Sharpe as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 144
1779
[Name] Bellfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Sharpe as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 207
1780
[Name] Bellfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Sharpe as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 131
1781
[Name] Bellfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No Ownership details given. Account filed by John Sharpe, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 47-48
1796
[Name] Bellfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Patrick Lynch Esq. Account filed by Thomas Esson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1798
[Name] Bellfield  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Bellfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Duncan Stewart overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 194
1800
[Name] Bellfield  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Duncan Stewart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 176
1803
[Name] Bellfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Patrick Lynch Esq. Account filed by James Ferguson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 104
1807
[Name] Bellfield  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account presented by James Ferguson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 220
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot) 10(F) 16(M)  
[Name] Bellfield Estate  
 

Patrick Lynch, owner in the right of his wife.

 
T 71/33 801-802
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot) 75(F) 72(M)  
[Name] Bellfield Estate  
 

Patrick Lynch, owner and tenant for life.

 
T 71/33 802-807
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot) 121(F) 124(M)  
[Name] Bellfield Estate  
 

Patrick Lynch, owner.

 
T 71/33 807-814
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot) 79(F) 79(M)  
[Name] Belfield Estate  
 

Jasper H Livingston and James Welsh, attornies to Miss Cecilia Lynch owner and tenant for life [increase by demise of Patrick Lynch].

 
T 71/34 160v-162v
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot) 102(F) 90(M)  
[Name] Belfield Estate  
 

Jasper H Livingston and James Welsh, attornies to Miss Cecilia Lynch, lessee and tenant for life under the will of Patrick Lynch, deceased.

 
T 71/34 162v-165v
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot) 74(F) 69(M)  
[Name] Belfield Estate  
 

Jasper H Livingston, receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery.

 
T 71/35 271-272
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot) 101(F) 92(M)  
[Name] Belfield Estate  
 

Jasper H Livingston, receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery.

 
T 71/35 270-271
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot) 72(F) 65(M)  
[Name] Belfield Estate  
 

Jasper Hall Livingston, receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/36 150
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot) 99(F) 80(M)  
[Name] Belfield Estate  
 

Jasper Hall Livingston, receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/36 148-149
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot) 66(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Belfield Estate  
 

Jasper Hall Livingston, receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot) 94(F) 75(M)  
[Name] Belfield Estate  
 

Jasper Hall Livingston, receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot) 81(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Belfield Estate  
 

Jasper Hall Livingston, receiver appointed by the Honble. Court of Chancery [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/42 16
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot) 58(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Belfield Estate  
 

Jasper Hall Livingston, receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/42 17