Associated People (12) |
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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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1785 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
NB the entries for 'James Lewis senior' between 1817 and 1829 definitely refer to this man, whose will 'of Clifton' was proved in 1822; the entries for 'James Lewis sen. between 1788 and 1791 indicates the existence of a third, earlier generation. |
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1788 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Owner of enslaved people in his own right, settled on the estate but not part of his father's bequest. |
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
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1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
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1823 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
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1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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Associated Claims (2) |
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£3,757 13S 3D
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£590 13S 10D
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Notes |
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Lewisburgh included two distinct groups of enslaved people: those owned by James Lewis junior since at least 1817 (between 30-40 people) and those owned as part of the estate by James Lewis senior and bequeathed to James Lewis junior c. 1822 (between 220 and 240 people). |
Estate Information (46) |
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1785
[Name] Lewisburg Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Property of James Lewis Esq; account filed by Donald McBean, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 79
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1786
[Name] Lewisburgh Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of James Lewis Esq; account filed by Donald McBean, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 116
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1787
[Name] Lewisburg Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by David Robertson, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 96
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1787
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to James Lewis Esq; account filed by David Robertson as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 223
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1788
[Name] Lewisburgh
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of James Lewis Senior Esquire. Account filed by David Robertson as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 338-339 f.179
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1789
[Name] Lewisburgh
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by David Robertson as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 435 f.215
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1790
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to James Lewis Senior. Account filed by David Robertson as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 300
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1791
[Name] Lewisburgh
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of James Lewis Sen.r Esquire. Account filed by David Robertson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 374
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1792
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by David Robertson as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 91
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1793
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by David Robertson as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 40
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1794
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of James Lewis Esq. Account filed by David Robertson as overseer for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 27
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1795
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cow Belonging to James Lewis, Esq. Account filed by David Robertson, status not given.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 26
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1796
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cows Account filed by David Robertson, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of James Lewis Esq. Account filed by David Robertson as overseer for the period 01/01/1797 to 31/12/1797.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 1-2
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1798
[Name] Lewisburgh
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Account filed by George Jeffret Johnson. Estate belonging to James Lewis Esquire.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 43
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1798
[Name] Lewisburgh
[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.
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1799
[Name] Lewisburgh Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Account filed by George.(?).Johnson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 190
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1803
[Name] Lewisburg Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle Account given in the name of Alexander Shaw, under whose direction the estate is run. Account filed in the name of James Ross, overseer to said estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 48
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1807
[Name] Lewisburg
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle Belonging to James Lewis Esq. Account filed by Alexander Keith as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 98
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1810
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburg [Stock] 165 Registered to James Lewis.
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.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 214 Registered to James Lewis.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot) 21(F) 18(M)
[Name] [no name given] James Lewis Jnr., owner.
T 71/33 883-884
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot) 98(F) 111(M)
[Name] [no name given] James Lewis Junr. and Francis Graham as attornies to James Lewis Snr.
T 71/33 832-838
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 251(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 232 Registered to Hon. James Lewis.
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.
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 57 Registered to Honorable James Lewis.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot) 19(F) 20(M)
[Name] [no name given] James Lewis Jnr., owner.
T 71/34 157-157v
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot) 111(F) 125(M)
[Name] [no name given] James Lewis Junr. and George William Hamilton, attornies to James Lewis Snr. [increase by births and by purchase].
T 71/34 157v-159v
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 278(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 210 Registered to Honorable James Lewis.
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.
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 212 Registered to Honorable James Lewis.
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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot) 19(F) 20(M)
[Name] [no name given] William Rodon Rennalls, George William Hamilton, attornies to James Lewis Jnr.
T 71/35 391-392
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot) 111(F) 125(M)
[Name] [no name given] William Rodon Rennalls, George William Hamilton and James Lawes, attornies to James Lewis Jnr., executor and devisee of James Lewis Snr., deceased.
T 71/35 388-391
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 245 Registered to James Lewis.
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.
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 226 Registered to James Lewis.
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.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 35(Tot) 17(F) 18(M)
[Name] [no name given] William Rodon Rennalls, George W Hamilton, attornies to James Lewis.
T 71/36 320
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot) 119(F) 114(M)
[Name] [no name given] William R Rennalls, James Laing and George William Hamilton, attornies to James Lewis Jnr. executor and devisee of James Lewis Snr, deceased.
T 71/36 320-322
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 201 Registered to James Lewis.
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.
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 77 Registered to James Lewis.
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.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 225 Registered to James Lewis.
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.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot) 15(F) 17(M)
[Name] [no name given] Joseph Gordon, attorney of James Lewis.
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 227(Tot) 115(F) 112(M)
[Name] [no name given] Joseph Gordon, attorney of James Lewis, executor and devisee of James Lewis, deceased.
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 67 Registered to James Lewis.
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.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 64 Registered to James Lewis.
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.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot) 16(F) 18(M)
[Name] [no name given] Joseph Gordon, attorney of James Lewis, owner.
T 71/41 190
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot) 124(F) 115(M)
[Name] [no name given] Joseph Gordon, attorney of James Lewis, executor and devisee of James Lewis Snr., deceased [increase by births].
T 71/41 184
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)
[Name] Lewisburgh [Stock] 50 Registered to James Lewis.
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.
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1839
[Name] Lewisburgh
[Size] 1211 Registered to James Lewis.
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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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Lewisburgh Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/241 [accessed 22nd December 2024].
