Bodle's Pen

Estate Details


Associated People (12)

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
- 1740 [LA] → Previous owner

Gauci used the information from the inventories of Peter Beckford's estate.

1735 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Owner
1740 [EA] - → Not known
1740 [EA] - → Not known
1740 [EA] - → Attorney

Tentative association, may be a different Richard Beckford.

1740 [EA] - → Not known
1770 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1781 [EA] - → Previous owner
1781 [EA] - → Overseer
1791 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Not known

Filed Accounts Produce

1801 [EA] - → Not known

Filed Accounts Produce

1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£2,731 0S 2D

Notes

Bodle's Pen was used as a storehouse and distribution point for the Beckford's Clarendon estates.


Estate Information (33)

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1740
[Name] Bodles Pen  
[Crop] Goats  
 

Belonging to the late Peter Beckford Esq. Senior and his copartners. Account filed by William Beckford. The estates of Retreat, Kays, Malmsey Valley, Crofts, Rock River, Lime Hall, Danks, Petersfield, Shrewsbury, Roaring River, Hatfield, Smithfield, Barbadoes Valley, Lewis's Crawle, Beckford & Forbes Plantation, Seven Mile Walk, Dirty Pitt Pen, Dry sugar Work Pen, Two Mile Wood Pen, Bodles Pen, Withy Wood Pen and Esher were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 76
1740
[Name] Bodles Pen  
[Crop] Goats  
 

Belonging to the late Peter Beckford Esq. Senior and his copartners. Account filed by Richard Beckford Esq. attorney to Mrs. Bathshua Beckford and Mr. Julmes and Francis Beckford. The estates of Retreat, Kays, Malmsey Valley, Crofts, Rock River, Lime Hall, Danks, Petersfield, Shrewsbury, Roaring River, Hatfield, Smithfield, Barbadoes Valley, Lewis's Crawle, Beckford & Forbes Plantation, Seven Mile Walk, Dirty Pitt Pen, Dry sugar Work Pen, Two Mile Wood Pen, Bodles Pen, Withy Wood Pen and Esher were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 79
1740
 

The inventory of Peter Beckford's estate gave the value of the stock as £964 Jamaican pounds.

 
Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.44
1779
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
 

The estate was owned by William Thomas Beckford.

 
Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.148
1781
[Name] Bodle's Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

"Account of Produce received broke to Refill and sent from Bodles Penn to Old Harbour Bay" The estates of the late William Beckford Esquire Deceased. s. Account filed by Thomas Hillson, overseer at Bodles Penn and keeper of the store there.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 114-115
1787
[Name] Bodles Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esquire. Account filed by George Davidson. Clarendon Estate and Bodles Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 31 f.16
1791
[Name] Bodles Pen on the Clarendon Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by George Davison. Accounts filed for 1791 [?].

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 158
1792
[Name] Bodles Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The estates of William Beckford Esquire with the receiver. Account filed by George Davidson. The five estates at Bodles Penn: Rock River, Dank S.S., Retreat, Hayes and Moors all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 221-222 [f.111]
1793
[Name] Bodles Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by George Davidson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Retreat Estate, Keys's Estate, Moor Estate, and Bodles Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

1794
[Name] Bodles Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by George Davidson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Retreat Estate, Keys's Estate, Moor Estate, and Bodles Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

1796
[Name] Bodles Penn  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. Clarendon Estate and Bodles Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1801
[Name] Bogles Penn  
[Crop] sugar and rum (with the disposal of the same from Bogles Penn)  
 

The Clarendon estates of William Beckford. Account filed by John McPherson. Bogles Penn, Danks, Rock River, Kays and Moors filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 114
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Bodles Penn  
[Stock] 397  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Bodles Penn  
[Stock] 463  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Bodles  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 461  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)  
[Name] Bodes  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 464  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot) 90(F) 73(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as attorney to William Beckford Esquire.

 
T71/13 101-104
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot)  
[Name] Bodles  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 282  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot) 81(F) 76(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney to William Beckford.

 
T71/14 108-109
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Bodles  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 343  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Bodle's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 352  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot) 73(F) 71(M)  
[Name] Bodles Pen  
 

In the possession of William Jackson Esq as Attorney to William Beckford Esq.

 
T71/15 15
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Bodle's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 390  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
[Name] Bodle's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 429  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot) 70(F) 70(M)  
[Name] Bodles Pen  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney to William Beckford Esq.

 
T71/16 140
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Bodle's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 398  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Bodle's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 372  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stivdor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot) 72(F) 76(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Jackson Esq as Attorney to William Beckford Esq.

 
T71/17 76
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Bodle's  
[Crop] Listed as a pen so presumably livestock and possibly also provisions.  
[Stock] 377  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Bodle's Pen  
[Stock] 351  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
[Name] Bodle's Pen  
[Stock] 351  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
[Name] Bodles Pen  
 

In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney to William Beckford Esq.

 
T71/18 329
1839
[Name] Bodle's Pen  
[Size] 1182  
 

Registered to William Beckford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Dorothy.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.