Frontier 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
- 1783 [EY] → Owner
1783 [SY] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1748 [SY] - 1764 [EY] → Owner
1764 [SY] - 1777 [EY] → Executor
1777 [SY] - 1783 [EY] → Owner
1792 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Trustee

Trustee for the benefit of Archibald Stirling Esq. [his son]

1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

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Estate Information (53)

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1747
[Name] Frontier  
 

Bought by Robert Stirling the elder, partly with money borrowed from his brother Archibald Stirling the elder.

 
Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (Ithaca and London, 1992) pp. 71-80.
1764
[Name] Frontier  
 

After the death of Robert Stirling the elder, his estate was managed by his executors Archibald Stirling the elder and James Stirling the elder.

 
Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (Ithaca and London, 1992) pp. 71-80.
1767
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Acocunt filed by Gilbert Mathison of Kingston.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 71
1768
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Acocunt filed by Gilbert Mathison as one of the executors and trustees.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 139
1769
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Acocunt filed by Gilbert Mathison planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 190
1770
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by Gilbert Mathison as one of the executors and trustees named in the last will and testament of Robert Stirling deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 33
1771
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by Gilbert Mathison.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 168
1772
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by Gilbert Mathison as one of the executors and trustees.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 20
1773
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by Gilbert Mathison.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 188
1774
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Wright.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 225
1775
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by James Campbell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 27
1776
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the late James Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by Malcolm Laing as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 104-5
1777
[Name] Frontier  
 

Archibald Stirling took on the property and debts of his deceased brother Robert Stirling the elder in 1777.

 
Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (Ithaca and London, 1992) pp. 71-80.
1778
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by Malcolm Laing as executor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 60
1779
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by Malcolm Laing as executor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 139-40
1780
[Name] Frontier Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The Estate of Robert Stirling Esquire Deceased. Account filed by Malcolm Laing Executor of the Estate of Robert Stirling Esquire Deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 27-28
1781
[Name] Frontier Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The Estate of Robert Stirling Esquire Deceased. Account filed by John Jaques one of the Acting Executors of Malcolm Laing Esquire Deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 45
1782
[Name] Frontier Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estate of Robert Stirling Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Jaques, attorney to the heirs of Robert Stirling Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 202
1782
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Jacques as one of the attorneys to the heirs of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 144
1783
[Name] Frontier  
 

Bequeathed by Archibald Stirling the elder in trust for his nephew Archibald Stirling the younger.

 
Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (Ithaca and London, 1992) pp. 71-80.
1784
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Jacques as one of the attorneys to the heirs of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 212-13
1786
[Name] Frontier Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estate of Robert Sterling Esq deceased; account filed by John Jacqes, attorney to the heirs of Robert Sterling.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 142
1786
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The estate of Robert Sterling Esq deceased; account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies to the deceased's heirs.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 131
1787
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar, rum, one heifer  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies of Robert Sterling Esq deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 185
1788
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies of the heirs of Rob.t Sterling Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 408
1789
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Ralph Fisher one of the attornies to the heirs of Robert Stirling Esquire deceased. Accounts filed for 31/12/1788 to 30/09/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 365-366
1790
[Name] Frontier Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of Archibald Stirling Esquire. Account filed by Alexander Park.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 270
1792
[Name] Frontier Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of William and John Sterling Esquires trustees of the estate for the benefit of Archibald Starling Esquire under the former care of Alex. Park and late of William Sterling. Account filed by Archibald McLellan as book keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 126-127
1798
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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.
1798
[Name] Frontier  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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.
1801
[Name] Frontier Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Archibald Stirling Esq. Account filed by Robert Sterling as Attorney for Frontier Plantation Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 188
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 420(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier and Hamstead  
[Stock] 249  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling. Assumed to include Mahoe Bay.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 422(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier etc.  
[Stock] 280  
 

Registered to Archibald Sterling. Assumed to include Hampstead.

 
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] 378(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier  
[Stock] 205  
 

Registered to Archibald Sterling.

 
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] 441(Tot) 228(F) 213(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Alexander Stevenson, attorney of Archibald Stirling, owner. Assumed to be Frontier and Hampstead.

 
T 71/33 755-767
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 412(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier  
[Stock] 263  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling.

 
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] 384(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling.

 
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] 434(Tot) 227(F) 207(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Alexander Stevenson, attorney of Archibald Stirling, owner. Assumed to be Frontier, Mahoe Bay and Hampstead.

 
T 71/34 230-232v
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 306(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier  
[Stock] 225  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling.

 
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] 376(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier  
[Stock] 182  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling.

 
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] 416(Tot) 222(F) 194(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Alexander Stevenson, attorney of Archibald Stirling, owner [decrease by deaths]. Assumed to be Frontier, Mahoe Bay and Hampstead.

 
T 71/35 441-446
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 356(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling.

 
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] 335(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier  
[Stock] 173  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling.

 
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] 385(Tot) 206(F) 179(M)  
[Name] Frontier Estate  
 

Robert Fairweather, attorney of Archibald Sterling [decrease by deaths]. Assumed to include Hampstead and Mahoe Bay.

 
T 71/36 408-410
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 330(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier  
[Stock] 161  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling.

 
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] 660(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier  
[Stock] 112  
 

Registered to Archibald* Stirling.

 
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] 329(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier  
[Stock] 157  
 

Registered to Archibald Sterling.

 
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] 346(Tot) 188(F) 158(M)  
[Name] Frontier Estate, Hampstead and Maho Bay  
 

Alexander Forsyth, attorney of Archibald Sterling [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 312(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier and Hampstead  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling. Assumed to include Mahoe Bay.

 
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] 329(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier and Hampstead  
[Stock] 127  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling. Assumed to include Mahoe Bay.

 
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] 327(Tot) 177(F) 150(M)  
[Name] Frontier Estate  
 

Alexander Forsyth, attorney of Archibald Sterling [decrease by deaths]. Assumed to include Hampstead and Maho Bay.

 
T 71/41 178
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 325(Tot)  
[Name] Frontier, etc.  
[Stock] 110  
 

Registered to Archibald Sterling. Assumed to include Hampstead and Mahoe Bay. Number of stock unclear on page.

 
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] Frontier  
[Size] 1643  
 

Registered to Archibald Sterling.

 
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.

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