Knollis or Knowles

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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:

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  • SY - Association Start Year
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  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
11/04/1834 [SD] - → Owner
- 1694 [LA] → Owner
1761 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Owner
1779 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Previous owner
1799 [EA] - 11/05/1834 [ED] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

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£3,895 7S 7D

Estate Information (65)

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1761
[Name] Knollis Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Produce sent to Zachary Bayly as attorney to Rose Fuller Esquire who seems to be the owner. Account filed by John Kirk, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 213
1763
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Hoston a planter and late overseer on Knollis.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4
1763
[Name] Knowles  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with cattle and wind mills.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1764
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Hoston a planter and late overseer on Knollis.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 110
1765
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Hoston a planter and late overseer on Knollis.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 150
1765
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Rose Fuller Esq. Account filed by James Fowler planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 56
1768
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Rose Fuller Esq. Account filed by James Fowler planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 141
1769
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Rose Fuller Esq. Account filed by James Fowler planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 185
1770
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Rose Fuller Esq. Account filed by James Fowler planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 28
1771
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Rose Fuller Esq. of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by James Fowler planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 229
1772
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Rose Fuller Esq. Account filed by Robert Ross as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 6
1773
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Rose Fuller Esq. Account filed by Robert Ross as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 68
1774
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Rose Fuller Esq. Account filed by Robert Ross as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 244
1775
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Rose Fuller Esq. Account filed by John Allan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 279
1776
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Rose Fuller Esq. Account filed by Robert Ross.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 83-4
1778
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Rose Fuller Esq. Account filed by Robert Ross as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 94
1779
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Rose Fuller Esq. Account filed by Josias Child.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 175
1780
[Name] Knollis Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, Guinea Corn, cattle  
 

Property of the Heirs of Rose Fuller Esquire Deceased. Account filed by Josiah Child. Knollis Plantation & the Grange Penn filed together.

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

Property of John Fuller Esquire. Account filed by Roderick McKenzie, overseer.

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

The property of John Fuller Esquire. Account filed by Roderick Macleod.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 157 f.79
1783
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Fuller Esq. Account filed by Laclan MacKinnon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 98
1784
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Fuller Esq. Account filed by George Ross.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 177
1786
[Name] Knollis Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, enslaved hire and cattle  
 

Property of John Fuller Esq; account filed by George Ross. Knollis Plantation and Grange Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 129
1787
[Name] Knollis Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, enslaved hire sundries  
 

Properties of John Fuller Esq; account filed by George Ross. Knollis Platation and Grange Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 128
1787
[Name] Knollis Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The properties of John Fuller Esq; account filed by George Ross. Knollis Plantation and Grange Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 67
1788
[Name] Knollis Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, pasturage  
 

The properties of John Fuller Esquire. Account filed by George Ross. Knollis Plantation and Grange Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 374
1789
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of John Fuller esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by George Ross.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 343-344 f.169
1790
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of John Fuller Esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by George Ross as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 21 [f.6]
1791
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Fuller Esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by George Ross.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 345 [f.167]
1792
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Fuller Esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by George Bosse as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01/1792 to 01/10/1792.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 176-177
1793
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Fuller Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Malcolm Macleod.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 47-48
1794
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Fuller Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Malcolm Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 2-3
1795
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Fuller Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Malcolm Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 242
1796
[Name] Knolles Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to John Fuller Esq of GB. Account filed by Malcolm Macleod.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Knollis Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, meagre steers  
 

Belonging to John Fuller, Esq of GB. Account filed by Malcolm Macleod, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 133
1798
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Fuller Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Malcolm Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 100
1798
[Name] Knowless  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Knollis  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to John Fuller with 178 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799. The letter lists 18 births and 10 deaths in the previous 3 years.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 48.
1799
[Name] Knollis Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Fuller Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Malcolm Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 220
1800
[Name] Knollis Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Fuller Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Malcolm Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 115
1801
[Name] Knollies Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Fuller of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Esq. Account filed by Malcolm Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 104
1803
[Name] Knollis Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of John Fuller Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Malcolm Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 50
1804
[Name] Knollys Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum, old steers  
 

Belonging to John Fuller, Esq, of Great Britain. Account filed in the name of Malcolm Macleod (status not given).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 144
1807
[Name] Knollis  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Magnus McDonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 100-101
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Knowles's  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of 1809.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 176  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Knowles's  
[Stock] 48  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)  
[Name] Knowles's  
[Stock] 149  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_01.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Knowles's  
[Stock] 145  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot) 124(F) 121(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Shand and Malcolm M'leod as attornes to John Fuller esq.

 
T71/25 33-40
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot)  
[Name] Knowles's  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Knowles's  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot) 121(F) 115(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of the Honourable William Shand and Malcolm McCleod as attornies to John Fuller esq.

 
T71/26 356
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Knowles's  
[Stock] 138  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)  
[Name] Knollis  
[Stock] 132  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot) 121(F) 105(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Shand esq and Malcolm McLeod as attornies to John Fuller esq.

 
T71/27 213-214
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Knollis  
[Stock] 125  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot) 107(F) 97(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Malcolm McLeod as attorney to John Fuller Esq.

 
T71/28 p.3-4
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Knollis  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot) 108(F) 97(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Malcolm Macleod as attorney to John Fuller esq.

 
T71/28 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Knollis  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Knollis  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
[Name] Knollis  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIV.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot) 115(F) 95(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Malcolm Macleod as attorney to John Fuller Esquire.

 
222
1839
[Name] Knollis  
[Size] 1587  
 

Registered to the estate of John Fuller.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thosvale.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.

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