Greenwich Plantation

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Associated People (14)

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
1799 [EA] - → Owner
1801 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner
1801 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Executor
1807 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Attorney
1815 [EA] - → Previous owner
1815 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Executor
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Executor
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Executor
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Receiver
1829 [EA] - → Other
1832 [EA] - → Receiver
1834 [EA] - → Receiver

Associated Claims (1)

£1,683 1S 0D

Notes

Greenwich was located in the southeast of Hanover on the borders with Westmoreland. The estate used a cattle mill which Higman notes was typical of marginal nineteenth century estates. It was surveyed in 1817 by Alexander Stevenson and Nicholas Smith. They gave the acreage as 1138. An undated plan of 1810 showed there were two cattle mills however James Robertson's map of 1804 depicts only one. The mill was adjacent to the boiling house and the curing house was attached to the boiling house. The buildings were in an L shape. The works at Greenwich included an overseer's house and the area for the enslaved people covered 6 acres. The hospital and store house were close to the works.


Sources

B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), pp.128-31


Estate Information (28)

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1763
[Name] Greenwich Park  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Hanover in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a cattle mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
 

Registered in Hanover to Robt. Campbell with 120 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 23.
1799
[Name] Greenwich  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1801
[Name] Greenwich Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, coffee, horses  
 

Account filed by John Christie, Acting Exor of Robert Campbell deceased. Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 194
1807
[Name] Greenwich  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock and rental of a mountain  
 

Account filed by John Christie as trustee for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 34-35
1808
[Name] Greenwich  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle and timber  
 

Account filed by John Christie as trustee for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 193
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 108  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert Campbell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.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] 215(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Robert Campbell deceased.

 
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] 216(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 158  
 

Registered to heirs of John and Alexander Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 173  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot) 86(F) 101(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In possession of John Gardner, Edward Earl and George Ogilvy as joint executors to the estate of John Christie deceased.

 
T71/190 177-181
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 164  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 147  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Gairdner, Edward Earl and George Ogilvey as executors to the estate of John Christie deceased.

 
T71/191 94-96
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 142  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Ogilvy as executor of John Christie deceased and John Finlay as attorney to the Residuary Devisees.

 
T71/192 106-107
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 151  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot) 94(F) 87(M)  
[Name] Greenwich Estate  
 

In the possession of Hugh James as receiver for Greenwich Estate.

 
T71/193 323-324
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich Estate  
 

In the possession of William Garbutt "as Survivor of persons employed on Greenwich Estate".

 
T71/195 85
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot) 86(F) 80(M)  
[Name] Greenwich Estate  
 

In the possession of William Tharp as receiver for Greenwich Estate. "By my appointment as receiver of the Court of Chancery in the cause of Hunter (sp?) vs. Gardiner et al."

 
T71/199 258-260
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] Greenwich  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to heirs of John Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Greenwich  
[Size] 1115  
 

Registered to John Christie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.