Hampden 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
1757 [SY] - 1761 [EY] → Joint owner
1761 [SY] - 1764 [EY] → Owner
1757 [SY] - 1761 [EY] → Joint owner
1761 [SY] - 1773 [EY] → Executor
1764 [SY] - 1777 [EY] → Executor
1777 [SY] - 1783 [EY] → Owner
1783 [SY] - 1793 [EY] → Owner
- 1808 [EY] → Joint owner
1809 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

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1757
[Name] Hampden  
 

Bought jointly by Robert Stirling the elder and his brother 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.
1761
[Name] Hampden  
 

James Stirling the elder sold his moity of Hampden to his brother Robert Stirling the elder in return for an annuity of £300.

 
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] Hampden  
 

After the death of Robert Stirling the elder in 1764, his estate was managed by his brothers and 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] Hampden  
[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 70
1768
[Name] Hampden  
[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] Hampden  
[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] Hampden  
[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. Formerely in St. James but Trelawney parish formed in 1770 from land which had made up St. James parish.

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

Belonging to Robert Stirling Esq. deceased. Account filed by Patrick Stirling as one of the acting executors of Robert Stirling Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 183
1772
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Archibald and James Stirling Esq. resident in Great Britain. Account filed by Patrick Stirling as overseer. Formerly in the parish of St. James but Trelawney parish created from land in St. James in 1770.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 15
1773
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Archibald and James Stirling Esq. Account filed by Patrick Stirling as overseer. Formerly in the parish of St. James but Trelawney parish created from land in St. James in 1770.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 184
1774
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Archibald Stirling Esq. Account filed by Patrick Stirling as overseer. Sometimes included in the parish of Trelawney rather than St. James.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 258
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 251(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 472  
 

Listed as belonging to Archibald Sterling with 9 men bearing arms and 0 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 225 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1775
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Archibald Stirling Esq. of Keir. Account filed by John Stirling as overseer on the order of Messrs James Stothert and Robert Drummond as attorneys. This estate is sometimes listed as in St. James and sometimes as Trelawney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 16
1778
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Archibald Stirling Esq. Account filed by George MacLachlan as overseer on the order of Messrs James Stothert and Robert Drummond as attorneys. Formerly in the parish of St. James but Trelawney parish created from land in St. James in 1770.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 89
1779
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Archibald Stirling Esq. Account filed by George MacLachlan as overseer on the order of Messrs James Stothert and Robert Drummond as attorneys. Formerly in the parish of St. James but Trelawney parish created from land in St. James in 1770.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 154
1781
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of Archibald Stirling Esquire on the orders of Robert Drummond acting attorney. Account filed by George MacLachlan as overseer on both the estate and pen. Hampden and Keir Estate and Pen filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 149-150 f.75
1782
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Archibald Stirling Esquire. Account filed by George MacLachlan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 163-165 f.82-83
1783
[Name] Hampden  
 

Bequeathed in trust by Archibald Stirling the elder to his nephew John Stirling.

 
Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (Ithaca and London, 1992) pp. 71-80.
1783
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Archibald Stirling Esq. Account filed by George MacLachlan, planter. Formerly in the parish of St. James but Trelawney parish created from land in St. James in 1770.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 53-4
1784
[Name] Hampden Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Archibald Sterling Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 39
1786
[Name] Hampden Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Archibald Sterling Esq. deceased; account filed by George McLachlan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 154
1787
[Name] Hampden Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Archibald Sterling Esq deceased; account filed by George Maclachlan, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 121
1787
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of Arch.d Sterling Esquire deceased. Account filed by George Maclachlan planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 20-21 f.11
1788
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of Archibald Sterling Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alexander Thoburn [?] planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 230-231
1789
[Name] Hampden Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Alex.r Thoburn planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 315 f. 156
1790
[Name] Hampden Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Archibald Stirling Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alexander Thoburn planter. Hampden Plantation and Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 275-276
1790
[Name] Hampden Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Archibald Stirling Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alexander Thoburn planter. Hampden Plantation and Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 275-276
1791
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Archibald Sterling Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alexander Thoburn planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 302
1792
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Arch.d Stirling Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alex.r Thoburn planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 168
1793
[Name] Hampden  
 

It's not clear what happened to the estate on the death of John Stirling in 1793. Presumably it was inherited jointly by his brothers Robert Stirling the younger and Archibald Stirling the younger as Archibald and the heirs of Robert owned the estate jointly from 1817.

 
Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (Ithaca and London, 1992) pp. 71-80.
1793
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, mules  
 

Account filed by Alex.r Thoburn planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 355-356
1799
[Name] Hampden  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1802
[Name] Hampden Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of A & R Stirling Esquires. Account filed by William McKean as overseer Accounts filed for 1801-1802.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 188-189
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 376(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 327  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 396(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 308  
 

Registered to Archbald Stirling.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 346(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 500  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of Robert Stirling.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 339(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 336  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of Robert.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 323(Tot) 169(F) 154(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Stevenson as attorney to Archibald Stirling, owner of one moity and as administrator to the estate of Robert Stirling Esquire deceased for the other moity.

 
T71/201 178-186
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 375(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 521  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of Robert.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 374(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 517  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of Robert.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 354(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Finlay as Attorney to Archibald Stirling and Heirs of Robert Stirling, the owners. 40 enslaved people purchased and registered in 1817 as the property of A. Stirling by Alexr Stevenson St James.

 
T71/207 278-281
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 350(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Finlay as Attorney of Archibald Stirling and Heirs of Robert Stirling.

 
T71/211 57-60
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 365(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 417  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of Robert.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 432  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of Robert.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden Estate  
 

In the possession of John Gunn as Attorney to Archibald Sterling and Heirs of Robert Sterling decd. Decrease of 100 enslaved people by removal to Keir Settlement in the parish of Trelawny, decrease of 4 enslaved people transported for life after being sentenced by a slave court for assissting rebellious slaves in Trelawny woods.

 
T71/213 263-268
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 401  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of Robert.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of Robert.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 190  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of Robert.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Gunn as Attorney of Archibald Sterling and the Heirs of Robert Sterling.

 
T71/220 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 194  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of Robert.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 288  
 

Registered to Archibald Stirling and heirs of R.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 246(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden  
[Stock] 116  
 

Registered to Archibald Sterling.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)  
[Name] Hampden Estate  
 

In the possession of John Gunn as Attorney to Archibald Sterling and Heirs of Robert Sterling.

 
T71/222 259
1839
[Name] Hampden  
[Size] 2519  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert Stirling.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.