Hyde 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
1809 [SY] - 1817 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
- 1815 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
1809 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
1809 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
1809 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
1809 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
1809 [SY] - 1816 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
1809 [SY] - 1813 [EY] → Annuitant
- 15/10/1782 [ED] → Owner
15/10/1782 [SD] - 1809 [EY] → Owner
1790 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Manager
1817 [EA] - → Other
1817 [EA] - → Other
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Agent
1823 [EA] - → Agent
1826 [EA] - → Agent
1829 [EA] - → Agent
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

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1760
[Name] Hyde Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esquire, with Sinclair and Rennalls. Account filed by Kenny Sinclair and Joseph Rennalls, merchants and factors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 176-177
1761
[Name] Hyde Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esquire by Sinclair and Rennalls. Account filed by Kennedy Sinclair and Joseph Rennalls, merchants and factors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 206
1762
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by Kennedy Sinclair of St. Catherine and Joseph Rennalls as merchants and factors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 24
1763
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale 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)
1765
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. Account filed by Sampson Facey of St. Catherine, a merchant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 132
1766
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. of the United Kingdom. Account filed by Sampson Facey of St. Catherine, a merchant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 170
1767
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Haughton James Esq. of the United Kingdom. Account filed by Charles Boswell as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 21
1780
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Walter Welch.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 202
1781
[Name] Hyde Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No Ownership details Given. Account filed by Walter Welch.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 48
1782
[Name] Hyde Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Rich.d Welch Esquire. Account filed by Walter Welch.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 156-157 f.79
1782
[Name] Hyde Estate  
 

Under the terms of his will, proved in 1782, Richard Welch senior left Hyde estate in trust to pay an annuity of £500 pa to his wife Lucreita Mary Welch and lump sums of £2000 to each of his daughters Mary, Elizabeth Lucretia, Favell, Jane and Georgina, the remainder to his eldest son Richard Welch junior. In fact, the legacies were not paid in full and the heirs were still owed money at 5% interest in 1834.

 
PROB 11/1096/368
1783
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock  
 

The property of the heirs of Richard Welch Esq. deceased. Account filed by Walter Welch.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 160
1784
[Name] Hyde Plantation  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Property of the heirs of Richard Welch Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 18
1786
[Name] Hyde Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Richard Welch Esq deceased; account filed by Walter Welch.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 130-131
1786
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Richard Welch Esq deceased; account filed by Walter Welch.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 162
1787
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Richard Welch Esq deceased; account filed by Walter Welch.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 67-68
1788
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Richard Welsh Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Eames.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 383 f.211
1789
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Richard Welch Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Eames.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 340-341 f.168
1790
[Name] Hyde Estate  
[Crop] sugar and some cattle  
 

Account filed by Zachariah Macauley. Accounts filed for 14/07/1790 to 31/12/1790.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 15
1790
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Richard Welch Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Eames as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01/1790 to 14/07/1790.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 17 [f.4]
1791
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of Richard Welch Esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by Zachary Macauley. Accounts filed for 01/01/1791 to 21/11/1791.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 346
1792
[Name] Hyde Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Richard Welsh Esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by John Marshall as overseer. Accounts filed for 23/11/1791 to 31/12/1792.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 179-180
1793
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Richard Welch Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by John Marshall.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 65
1794
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the Richard Welch of Great Britain. Account filed by John Marshall.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 194
1795
[Name] Hyde Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the Richard Welch Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by John Marshall as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 215
1796
[Name] Hyde Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Richard W? of GB, Esq. Account filed by Norman McDonald.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Hyde Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Richard Welch of GB. Account filed by Lewis Grant, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 130
1798
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Richard Welsh of Great Britain. Account filed by Lewis Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 96
1798
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Hyde Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Richard Welch Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Norman McDonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 222
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to the heirs of Richard Welch with 168 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 50.
1800
[Name] Hyde Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Richard Welsh Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Norman McDonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 114
1801
[Name] Hyde Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Richard Welch of Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Esq. Account filed by Norman McDonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 107
1803
[Name] Hyde Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Richard Welsh Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Norman McDonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 49
1804
[Name] Hyde Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Richard Welch, Esq, of Great Britain. Account filed in the name of Gordon MacDonald (status not given).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 137
1807
[Name] Hyde  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle and pasturage  
 

Account filed by James Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 100
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of 1809.
1809
 

Hyde estate had been bequathed by Richard Welch senior to his eldest son Richard Welch junior and his heirs in trust for a term of 99 years. By the death of Richard Welch junior in 1809 the estate was heavily mortgaged to the other children of Richard Welch senior, although it would have passed to Richard Welch junior's eldest son Arthur Welch.

 
PROB 11/1498/13
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 141  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_01.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 142  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Name] Hyde Estate  
 

Francis Graham under the power of a deed of articles of agreement, executed between Mrs Lucretia Mary Welch, Thomas Reignolds Esquire, and Mary his wife, William Lewis George Thomas Esquire, and Elizabeth Lucretia his wife, Robert Lewis Fitzgerald Esquire, and Jane his wife, Miss Georgiana Welch, and Mrs Alice Ann Welch, between them and Beeston Long Esquire. Slaves attached to Hyde Estate.

 
T71/25 265-270
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 39  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot) 77(F) 78(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

George William Hamilton as agent under the power to Francis Graham (since deceased) expressed in a deed of articles of agreement executed between the parties named in making the return for 1817.

 
T71/26 167-168
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 138  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 136  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot) 80(F) 72(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William Shand and George W Hamilton as agents under the power to Francis Graham since dec. in a deed of articles of government executed between the proprieter named in making the return in 1817

 
T71/27 155-156
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 129  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot) 84(F) 74(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Malcolm McLeod and George William Hamilton as agents and under the power to Francis Graham dec. exercised a deed of articles of agreement executed between the parties named in making the return of 1817.

 
T71/28 259-260
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

George William Hamilton and Alexander Macleod as agents and under the powers of Francis Graham since dec.

 
T71/29 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Hyde  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to the estate of R. Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIV.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot) 83(F) 64(M)  
[Name] Hyde Estate  
 

Geo Wm Hamilton and Malcolm McLeod as attorneys for Hyde Estate.

 
T71/32 155
1839
[Name] Hyde  
[Size] 899  
 

Registered to heirs of Richard Welch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thosvale.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.