Smailfield Plantation

Estate Details


Associated People (9)

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
- 1805 [EY] → Owner
1811 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Previous owner
1819 [EA] - 1826 [EY] → Owner
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Other
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Tenant-for-life

Associated Claims (1)

£981 11S 6D

Notes

See also Change Hill in St Mary. It's not clear that the two estates were separate.


Estate Information (19)

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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Smallfield  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to William Turner deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
[Name] Smallfield  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to heirs of William Turner.

 
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] 68(Tot) 34(F) 34(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Francis John French in the right of his wife and the heirs of William Turner, deceased.

 
T 71/33 772-774
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Smailfield  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to John Crosman.

 
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] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Smailfield  
[Stock] 54  
 

Registered to John Crosman.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 653(Tot) 330(F) 323(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Crosman [also John Crossman], owner [increase by births and acquisition]. Assumed to include Smallfield, Change Hill, Decoy Pen, Windsor Castle, Hazard and Decoy Estate.

 
T 71/34 70-73
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Smailfield  
[Stock] 63  
 

Registered to John Crosman.

 
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] 74(Tot)  
[Name] Smailfield  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to John Crosman.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 660(Tot) 330(F) 330(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James C Pownall and James Lawes, attornies to John Crosman, owner [increase by births and acquisition]. Assumed to include Decoy Pen, Windsor Castle, Hazard, Smallfield and Decoy Estate.

 
T 71/35 380-384
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot)  
[Name] Smailfield  
[Stock] 54  
 

Registered to John Crossman.

 
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] 71(Tot)  
[Name] Smailfield  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to estate of John Crosman.

 
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.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 658(Tot) 335(F) 323(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Henry Cox, attorney to the estate of John Crosman, deceased [increase by births and acquisition]. Assumed to include Decoy Pen, Windsor Castle, Hazard, Smallfield and Decoy Estate.

 
T 71/36 387-390
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)  
[Name] Smallfield  
[Stock] 69  
 

Registered to estate of John Crosman.

 
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] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Smailfield  
[Stock] 150  
 

Registered to Maria J. Pope.

 
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] 606(Tot) 316(F) 290(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

The Honble. Henry Cox, attorney to the estate of John Crossman, deceased [decrease by deaths]. Assumed to include Decoy Pen, Windsor Castle, Hazard, Smallfield and Decoy Estate.

 
T 71/37 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot)  
[Name] Smailfield  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to M. J. Pope.

 
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] 63(Tot)  
[Name] Smailfield  
[Stock] 50  
 

Registered to Maria Jane Pope.

 
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] 70(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Oldham as attorney to Mrs Maria J Pope. Late return, filed in 1833.

 
T71/200 35
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot)  
[Name] Smailfield  
 

John Oldham, attorney to Maria J Pope.

 
T 71/42 134