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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:
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1775 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Owner
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1799 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Owner
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1815 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Annuitant
In his will made in 1823 and proved in 1824 John James Vidal described himself and his wife as having an annuity of £300 p.a. from John Hayman of City of London secured on Berkshire Hall. He had presumably sold the estate sometime before 1817 to Hayman subject to this annuity. |
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1815 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Annuitant
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1816 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - → Attorney
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1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
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1820 [EA] - → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1830 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Co-awardee (through trustees) as mortgagee in 1834. |
Associated Claims (1) |
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£2,771 8S 3D
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Estate Information (28) |
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1763
[Name] Berkshire Hall
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a water mill.
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
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1775
[Name] Berkshire Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Edward Young Woodcock from the 6th day of May 1775.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 282
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1776
[Name] Berkshire
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Edward Young Woodcock Esq. Account filed by Edward Brailsford.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 65
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1797
[Name] Berkshire Hall
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Michael Allen as overseer for the period 01/01/1797 to 31/12/1797.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 55
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1798
[Name] Berkshire
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Michael Allen as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 137
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1798
[Name] Berkshire Hall
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and 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.
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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire Hall Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to John James Vidal with 173 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799.
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 50.
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1801
[Name] Berkshire Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by James Rocke as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 212
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)
[Name] Berksshire Hall [Stock] 7 Registered to John James Vidal.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of 1809.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire-Hall [Stock] 100 Registered to John James Vidal.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1816
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire hall [Stock] 80 Registered to John Hayman.
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_01.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire Hall [Stock] 107 Registered to John Hayman.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot) 84(F) 89(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Francis Graham as attorney to John Hayman esq.
T71/25 278-282
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire Hall [Stock] 11 Registered to John Hayman.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire Hall [Stock] 9 Registered to John Hayman.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of George Mill and Richard Welch as attornies to John Hayman.
T71/26 223
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire Hall [Stock] 108 Registered to John Hayman.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire Hall [Stock] 109 Registered to John Hayman.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot) 86(F) 84(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of George Mills as attorney for John Hayman esq.
T71/27 241
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire Hall [Stock] 109 Registered to John Hayman.
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Edward Clouston as attorney for John Hayman esq.
T71/28 299-300
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire Hall [Stock] 7 Registered to John Hayman.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot) 82(F) 80(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Edward Clouston as attorney to John Hayman.
T71/30 unpaginated
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire Hall [Stock] 15 Registered to John Hayman.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 330(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire Hall [Stock] 250 Registered to John Hayman.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 316(Tot)
[Name] Berkshire Hall [Stock] 202 Registered to John Harman.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIV.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot) 79(F) 73(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Thomas Hooper as attorney of John Hayman.
T71/32 170
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1839
[Name] Berkshire-Hall
[Size] 1025 Registered to John Hayman.
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thosvale.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
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1788 - 1876
Irish merchant, slave-owner and philanthropist.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Berkshire Hall [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/3058 [accessed 2nd April 2023].
