Lemon Hall

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Associated People (5)

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
1789 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Previous owner
1799 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Other

Apparently lessor or vendor of enslaved people then registered for Lemon Hall.

1834 [EA] - → Annuitant
1834 [EA] - → Sequestrator

Associated Claims (2)

£2,763 8S 7D
£902 11S 0D

Estate Information (14)

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1789
[Name] Leming Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The estate of Larchin Gordon Esquire deceased. Account filed by Joshua Storey clerk to Arthur McKenzie Esquire of the parish of Clarendon, acting executor to the estate of the deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 422
1798
[Name] Leming-Hall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St John as a sugar estate with a cattle milland a watermill 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] Lemon [or Leming] Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Gordon Esq. Account filed by Andrew Hornsbee as overseer for the period 01/01/1799 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 9
1800
[Name] Lemon Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Gordon Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson for the period 01/01/1800 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 93
1801
[Name] Lemon Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Gordon Esq. Account filed by Andrew Hornsbee as overseer Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 36
1803
[Name] Lemon Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Gordon Esq. Account filed by Nicholas Brennan for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 94
1804
[Name] Lemon Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Gordon, Esq. Account filed in the name of Nicholas Brennan, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 198
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot) 120(F) 72(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Gordon as owner.

 
T71/19 297-302
1820
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Gordon as Lessee of Elizabeth Gordon; 2 births, 2 deaths and sale of 1 enslaved person recorded. 12 enslaved people brought from Clarendon since 1817.

 
T71/20 215-216
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 279(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Gordon as owner. 49 enslaved people removed from Clarendon since 1817; 22 runaways come home since 1817; 35 births; 9 sold, 10 deaths.

 
T71/20 211-215
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot) 142(F) 132(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Gordon as owner. 10 enslaved people delivered up to Wm Pownall attorney of Eliz. Gordon since 1820.

 
T71/21 251
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 439(Tot) 229(F) 210(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Gordon as owner. Increase in enslaved people by bequest and previously registere in Clarendon by Alexander McLean as attorney to Mrs Elizabeth Gordon.

 
T71/22 253
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot) 130(F) 142(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Gordon as owner. Large numbers of enslaved people sold but no record of purchasers.

 
T71/23 unpaginated
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot) 117(F) 118(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Gordon as owner.

 
T71/18 103-104