Chatham

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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
1819 [SY] - 23/06/1832 [ED] → Owner
17/06/1812 [SD] - 1819 [EY] → Owner
23/06/1832 [SD] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1812 [SY] - 1827 [LA] → Guardian
1772 [EA] - 1775 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
1799 [EA] - 1812 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Agent
1826 [EA] - → Agent
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

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£2,965 2S 10D

Estate Information (32)

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1772
[Name] Chatham  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Edward Spence Esq. and under the care and direction of George Spence and Charles Bernard Esq. as trustees. Account filed by William Harris clerk to Charles Bernard Esq., William Gordon the late overseer being dead.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 60
1773
[Name] Chatham  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Edward Spence Esq. and under the care and direction of George Spence and Charles Bernard Esq. as trustees. Account filed by William Harris clerk to Charles Bernard Esq., there having been a change of overseer mid-crop.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 83
1774
[Name] Chatham  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Edward Spence Esq. and under the care and direction of George Spence and Charles Bernard Esq. as trustees. Account filed by William Richardson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 256
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 54  
 

Listed as belonging to Edward Spence with 2 men bearing arms and 2 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 34 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] Chatham  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Edward Spence Esq. and under the care and direction of George Spence and Charles Bernard Esq. as trustees. Account filed by William Richardson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 284
1788
[Name] Chatham Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of John [? possiby James] Peterkin Esquire in the hands of his attorney. Account filed by Al. Peterkin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 268-269 f.144
1799
[Name] Chatham Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of James Peterkin Esq. Account filed by Alexander Peterkin as attorney for the estate for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 59-60
1799
[Name] Chatnam  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James 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.
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham & Bull Penn  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with James Peterkin as the proprietor.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 27. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1808
[Name] Chatham  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account filed by William Ross as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 174-175
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to James Peterkin.

 
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] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to James Peterkin.

 
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] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 112  
 

Registered to heirs of James Peterkin.

 
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] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham and Bull Pen  
[Stock] 116  
 

Registered to heirs of James Peterkin.

 
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] 146(Tot) 71(F) 75(M)  
[Name] Chatham Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Heatley as attorney to the heirs of James Peterkins Esquire deceased, owners.

 
T71/202 418-421
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 126  
 

Registered to heirs of James Peterkin.

 
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] 162(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to heirs of James Peterkin.

 
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] 141(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham Estate  
 

In the possession of David McNish as Agent to the Heirs of James Peterkin decd, owner of Chatham Estate.

 
T71/207 1-2
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 118  
 

Registered to heirs of Alexander Peterkin.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 125  
 

Registered to James Peterkin deceased.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of David McNish as Agent to the Heirs of James Peterkin decd, owners thereof. Increase of 24 enslaved people by purchase from A Campbell acting executor of Alexander Peterkin deceased owner thereof, registered by him in 1820 in st James.

 
T71/210 179-180
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 154  
 

Registered to heirs of James Peterkin.

 
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] 156(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham Estate  
 

In the possession of David McNish as Agent to the Heirs of James Peterkin decd.

 
T71/214 129-130
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 136  
 

Registered to heirs of James Peterkin.

 
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] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to heirs of James Peterkin.

 
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] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to Ann Peterkin.

 
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] 153(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Irving as Attorney to Mrs Ann Peterkin.

 
T71/219 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 50  
 

Registered to John Gordon Peterkin.

 
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] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 127  
 

Registered to John Gordon Peterkin.

 
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] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to John Gordon Peterkin.

 
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] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Chatham Estate  
 

In the possession of John Gunn as Attorney to John Gordon Peterkin Esq.

 
T71/222 267
1839
[Name] Chatham  
[Size] 566  
 

Registered to Mary-Ann Peterkin.

 
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.