Richmond 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
1770 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Owner
1782 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Previous owner
1794 [EA] - → Owner
1810 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

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£3,594 19S 4D

Estate Information (48)

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1761
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Estate of the late Edward Chambers deceased. Account filed by George Spence, one of the executors. Prosper and Richmond Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 215
1763
[Name] Richmond  
[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)
1770
[Name] Richmond  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Edward Chambers Esq. Account filed by John Priest as bookeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 204
1782
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the Heirs of Edward Chambers Esquire. Account filed by Thomas Hammitt (sp?), overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 177
1783
[Name] Richmond  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Hammett as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 26
1786
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Edward Chambers Esq deceased; account filed by Thomas Hammett, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 146
1786
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Edward Chambers; account filed by Hugh Greaves, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 181-182
1787
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Edward Chambers; account filed by Hugh Greaves, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 107
1787
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Edward Chambers Esq deceased; account filed by Thomas Minto as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 200
1788
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Minto as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 387 f.213
1792
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Minto as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 72-73
1793
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Minto as overseer

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 75
1794
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Miles Esq. Account filed by Robert Chisholm.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 47
1795
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Miles Esq. Account filed by Robert Chisholm as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 193
1796
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper  
 

Account filed by Robert Chisholm, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 53
1797
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William Miles, Esq. Account filed by Robert Chisholm, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 172
1798
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Miles Esq. Account filed by Robert Chisholm as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 272
1799
[Name] Richmond  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover 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.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 227(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
 

Registered in Hanover to William Miles with 227 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. 24.
1799
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Miles Esq. Account filed by Robert Chisholm as overseer for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 1
1800
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Miles Esq. Account filed by Robert Chisholme as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 178-179
1800
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of William Miles Esq. Account filed by Robert Chisholm as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 40
1803
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of heirs of William Miles Esq deceased. Account filed by Robert Chisholm as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 122
1804
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Philip John Miles, Esq. Account filed in the name of Robert Chisholm, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 176
1807
[Name] Richmond  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Philip John Miles Esq. Account filed by Robert Chisholm as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 67
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 756(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond etc.  
[Stock] 557  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles. Assumed to include Bachelor's Hall, Prosper Estate and Pen, Richmond Pen.

 
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] 753(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond etc.  
[Stock] 202  
 

Registered to Philip J. Miles. Assumed to include Bachelor's Hall, Prosper Estate and Pen, Richmond Pen.

 
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] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
[Stock] 122  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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] 201(Tot) 107(F) 94(M)  
[Name] Richmond Sugar Plantation  
 

In the possession of Robert Chisholm as attorney to Philip John Miles owner.

 
T71/190 548-552
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
[Stock] 72  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 201(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
[Stock] 190  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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] 207(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
[Stock] 127  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert Chisholm as attorney to Phillip John Miles.

 
T71/191 408-410
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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] 215(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond Estate  
[Stock] 133  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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] 223(Tot) 117(F) 106(M)  
[Name] Richmond Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert Chisholm as attorney to Philip John Miles.

 
T71/192 332-333
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
[Stock] 129  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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] 233(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert Chisholm as attorney to Philip John Miles Esquire.

 
T71/193 81-82
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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] 239(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond Estate  
 

In the possession of John Irving as attorney to Philip John Miles Esquire.

 
T71/196 130
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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] 229(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles.

 
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] 220(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond Estate  
 

Registered to P. J. Miles.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond Estate  
 

In the possession of John Irving as attorney to Philip John Miles Esquire.

 
T71/199 120
1839
[Name] Richmond etc  
[Size] 4006  
 

Registered to Philip J. Miles. Assumed to include Bachelor's Hall, Prosper Estate and Pen, Richmond Pen.

 
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.