Potosi Estate

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Associated People (3)

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
1782 [SY] - 1804 [EY] → Owner

This estate was named by John Tharp IV after the estate in St James he had previously co-owned with and through his first wife, and was established by him in 1782. A. E. Furness 'The Tharp Estates in Jamaica' https://fgsj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/The-Tharp-Estates-in-Jamaica-by-A-E-Furness.pdf [accessed 06/05/2020].

1805 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£4,494 17S 8D

Notes

This Potosi estate was named after Potosi in St James by John Tharp IV, and was founded by him c. 1782.


Sources

A. E. Furness 'The Tharp Estates in Jamaica' https://fgsj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/The-Tharp-Estates-in-Jamaica-by-A-E-Furness.pdf [accessed 06/05/2020].


Estate Information (22)

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1799
[Name] Potosi  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Trelawney as a sugar estate with 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1805
[Name] Potosi Estate  
 

The inventory of John Tharp (1805) gives his personal property of Potosi estate as having a value of £34,710 15s 0d.

 
Email from Anthony Gambrill sourced to John Tharp Details of Inventory Volume 104 Folio33 April24 1805.
1807
[Name] Potose  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Account filed by Alexander McBean as overseer. Filed for 31st Oct 1806-30th Sept 1807.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 20
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 174  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 308(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 166  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 306(Tot) 157(F) 149(M)  
[Name] Portusi Estate  
 

In the possession of William Fairclough and William Shand as the resident attornies & agents to the surviving trustees of the will of John Tharp Esquire deceased as owner.

 
T71/225 865-878
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 303(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 153  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 305(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 305(Tot)  
[Name] Potosie Estate  
 

In the possession of William Shand and William Fairclough Esquires as Resident Attorneys or Agents in this Island of the surviving trustees of the will of John Tharp Esquire as Owner deceased.

 
T71/231 [unpaginated]
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 307(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 155  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 303(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 141  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 306(Tot)  
[Name] Potosie Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as attorney to the Trustees of John Tharp Esquire deceased. Registered in 1820 by William Fairclough and William Shand.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 285(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 150  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 159  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 282(Tot)  
[Name] Potosie Estate  
 

In the possession of William M. Kerr & James Philips as Attornies to the Trustees of John Tharp Esquire deceased.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 285(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 150  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 160  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot)  
[Name] Potosie Estate  
 

In the possession of William M. Kerr & William Tharp as Attornies to the trustees of John Tharp Esquire deceased.

 
T71/240 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi  
[Stock] 166  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Name] Potosi  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharpe. Numbers of enslaved people and stock illegible.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Potosi Estate  
 

In the possession of William Tharp as Attorney of the Trustees of John Tharp deceased. Increase of 9 enslaved people "by purchase". Decrease of 8 enslaved people by manumission.

 
T71/242 278-279