Cromwell 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
1779 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Previous owner
1789 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£5,981 17S 6D

Estate Information (48)

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1779
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the heirs of George Gordon Esq. deceased. Account filed by Gustavas MacFarquhar.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 136
1780
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the heirs of George Gordon Esq. deceased. Account filed by Gustavas MacFarquhar.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 191
1781
[Name] Cromwell Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of the Heirs of George Gordon Esquire. Account filed by Gustavus McFarquhar,.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 97
1782
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of George Gordon Esquire deceased. Account filed by Gustavus MacFarquhar.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 190-191 f.96
1783
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the heirs of George Gordon Esq. deceased. Account filed by Gustavas MacFarquhar.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 21
1785
[Name] Cromwell Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of George Gordon Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 40
1786
[Name] Cromwell Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of George Gordon Esq deceased; account filed by Colin Mackenzie.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 132
1786
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of George Gordon Esq deceased; account filed by Colin Mackenzie.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 143
1787
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of George Gordon Esq deceased; account filed by Colin Mackenzie.

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

The property of the heirs of George Gordon Esquire deceased. Account filed by Thomas Smith.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 82-83
1789
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon Esquire. Account filed by Thomas Smith.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 360-361 f.178
1790
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Robert Horne Gordon Esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by Thomas Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 8-9 [f.1]
1791
[Name] Cromwell Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon of Great Britain. Account filed by Thomas Smith.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 374
1792
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon Esquire of Great Britain. Account filed by Thomas Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 167-168 [f.84]
1793
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Robert Home Gordon Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Thomas Smith.

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

Property of Robert Home Gordon Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Thomas Smith.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 199
1795
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Robert Hume Gordon Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Thomas Smith.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 201
1796
[Name] Cromwell Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers  
 

Belonging to Robert Heron Gordon, Esq of GB. Account field by Angus Morrison.

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

Belonging to Robert Home Gordon, Esq, of GB. Account filed by Angus Morison, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 174
1798
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Robert Home Godon Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Angus Morison as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 99
1798
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Robert Home Gordon Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Angus Morison as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 3
1800
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Robert Home Gordon Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by Angus Morison as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 111-112
1801
[Name] Cromwell Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Esq. Account filed by Angus Morison as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 116
1803
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Angus Morion as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 121
1807
[Name] Cromwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old brass, road work and payment for transportation of enslaved person  
 

Belonging to Robert Home Gordon Esq. Account filed by Robert Fairweather as overseer. Payment of ?90 for transportation of 1 enslaved man.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 90
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 327(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 281  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.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] 351(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 269  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 389(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 267  
 

Registered to Robert Home Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 410(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 225  
 

Registered to Robert Hume Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 408(Tot) 204(F) 204(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Francis Graham, attorney to Robert Home Gordon.

 
T 71/33 841-854
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 420(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Robert Hume Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 411(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 236  
 

Registered to Robert Hume Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 409(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

George William Hamilton, agent to Robert Home Gordon.

 
T 71/34 126-128
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 409(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 247  
 

Registered to Robert Hume Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 374(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 382  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon. Number of stock unclear on page.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 368(Tot) 183(F) 185(M)  
[Name] Cromwell  
 

James Laing and Robert Fairweather attornies of Robert Home Gordon, owner [decrease by deaths and 6 manumissions].

 
T 71/35 144-147
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 354(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 297  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 352(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 308  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 352(Tot) 179(F) 173(M)  
[Name] Cromwell Estate  
 

Robert Fairweather, attorney of Robert Home Gordon [decrease by death].

 
T 71/36 412-414
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 355(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 28  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 354(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 276  
 

Registered to Robert H. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 349(Tot) 179(F) 170(M)  
[Name] Cromwell Estate  
 

Patrick Waugh attorney of Mrs Susannah H Gordon [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 351(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to Susanna Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 342(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to Susanna Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 342(Tot)  
[Name] Cromwell  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to Susanna Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 343(Tot) 178(F) 165(M)  
[Name] Cromwell Estate  
 

Robert Fairweather, attorney of Mrs S H Gordon.

 
T 71/41 151
1839
[Name] Cromwell  
[Size] 1309  
 

Registered to Mary S. Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.