Mint 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
1799 [SY] - 1820 [EY] → Trustee and Executor

Trustee to his brother James Wedderburn. Trust in favour of John Wedderburn's eldest son, also James.

1766 [EA] - 1779 [LA] → Previous owner
1767 [EA] - 1768 [LA] → Executor

Co-executor of Bernard Senior

1790 [EA] - 1799 [EY] → Owner

Probably purchased in the 1770s.

1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1837 [LA] → Owner
1832 [EA] - → Trustee and Executor
1832 [EA] - → Trustee and Executor

Associated Claims (2)

£3,574 3S 0D
£2,839 1S 4D

Estate Information (45)

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1763
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Westmoreland 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)
1766
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Bernard Senior Esq. Account filed by Joh n Russell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 25
1767
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Bernard Senior Esq deceased. Account filed by John Russell as overseer. Estate under the care and at present the possession of George Robert Gordon and William Bosley Esqs. as executors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 56
1768
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Under the care and direction of George Robert Goodin and William Bosley Esq. as executors to Bernard Senior Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Russell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 108
1770
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Bernard Senior. Account filed by John Russell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 217
1770
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Bernard Senior. Account filed by John Russell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 218
1771
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Bernard Senior. Account filed by John Russell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 192
1771
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Bernard Senior Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Russell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 206
1773
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Bernard Senior. Account filed by John Russell as overseer. All sugar shipped had been consiged to Hibbert, Purrier and Horton.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 233
1774
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Bernard Senior. Account filed by John Russell as overseer. All sugar shipped had been consiged to Hibbert, Purrier and Horton.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 232
1775
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Bernard Senior. Account filed by John Russell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 230
1775
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Bernard Senior Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Rider as overseer. Sugra shipped to Hibbert, Purrier and Horton merchants of London.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 63
1777
[Name] Mint Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Bernard Senior Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Rider, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 128-129
1778
[Name] Mint Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Bernard Senior Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Rider, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 128
1779
[Name] Mint Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Bernard Senior Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Rider.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 145 f.73
1780
[Name] Mint Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under care and direction of George Murrray (? Given as "my" and signed by him as well as Rider) Account filed by John Rider.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 92
1781
[Name] Mint Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by John Rider.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 113
1798
[Name] Mint Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Under the direction of John Graham, William Fyffe and John Wedderburn attornies to John Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by John Blyth as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 183
1799
[Name] Mint Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Under the direction of John Graham Esq attorney to John Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by John Blyth as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 131-132
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 360(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
 

Registered in Westmoreland in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at a vestry convened for that purpose 15/11/1799 and subsequent days. No ownership details given.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 37.
1799
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Westmoreland as a sugar estate with two cattlemills 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
[Name] Mint Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of William Brown, Ptk Miller and Samll Forrester Esquires attornies to John Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by James Robert Tomlinson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 42-43
1801
[Name] Mint Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of William Brown, Patrick Miller and Somerville Forrester as Attornies to John Wedderburn. Account filed by John Blyth as overseer.

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

Under the direction of Patrick Miller, Somerville Forrester and James Wedderburn attornies to John Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by James Blyth as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 129
1804
[Name] Mint Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, compensation for slave, transported, old steers and cows.  
 

Account given in the name of John Blyth, attorney to John Wedderburn Esq. Account filed in the name of John Blyth, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 212
1807
[Name] Mint  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn, James Colquhun Grant and John Blyth as attornies to John Wedderburn Esq. Account presented by Alexander Fraser as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 206-207
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 213  
 

Registered to John Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 210  
 

Registered to John Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot) 122(F) 110(M)  
[Name] Mint Sugar Estate  
 

In the possession of James Colquhoun Grant and John Blyth as attorneys to John Wedderburn Esquire the owner.

 
T71/178 376-379
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 197  
 

Registered to John Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 370(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 203  
 

Registered to John Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 373(Tot) 206(F) 167(M)  
[Name] Mint Estate  
 

In the possession of James Colquhoun Grant and John Blythe as attorneys for John Wedderburn Esquire owner.

 
T71/179 Book 12 11
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 372(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 198  
 

Registered to John Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 363(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 187  
 

Registered to James Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 367(Tot) 204(F) 163(M)  
[Name] Mint Estate  
 

In the possession of Joseph Stone Williams as attorney to James Wedderburne Esquire as owner.

 
T71/180 Book 10 29-30
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 352(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 220  
 

Registered to James Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al16.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] Mint  
[Stock] 46  
 

Registered to James Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al10.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) 190(F) 162(M)  
[Name] Mint Sugar Estate  
 

In the possession of Joseph Stone Williams as attorney to James Wedderburn Esquire.

 
T71/181 399-400
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 335(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 37  
 

Registered to James Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 332(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to James Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 331(Tot) 176(F) 155(M)  
[Name] Mint Estate  
 

In the possession of Joseph Stone Williams as attorney to James Wedderburn Esquire, owner.

 
T71/187 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 323(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to James Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 287(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 49  
 

Registered to James Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 332(Tot)  
[Name] Mint  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to James Wedderburn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Westmd.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 330(Tot) 178(F) 159(M)  
[Name] Mint Estate  
 

In the possession of Joseph Stone Williams as attorney to Andrew Colville and Alexander Seton executors and trustees of Jno. Wedderburn deceased.

 
T71/188 318