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Richmond Pen

Jamaica | Hanover

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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 [EA] - → Owner
William Miles
1810 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Philip John Miles
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Robert Chisholm
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
John Irving (attorney in Jamaica)

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica Hanover 218 (Richmond Pen)
£1,623 7S 0D

Estate Information (11)

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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
[Name] Rd. Pen  
 

Registered in Hanover to William Miles with 38 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 24.
1804
[Name] Richmond Penn  
[Crop] Cows and steers  
 

Belonging to Philip John Miles, Esq. Account filed in the name of George Mitchell, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 175
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 756(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond etc.  
[Stock] 557  
 

Registered to Philip John Miles. Assumed to include Bachelor's Hall, Prosper Estate and Pen, Richmond Pen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.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] 753(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond etc.  
[Stock] 202  
 

Registered to Philip J. Miles. Assumed to include Bachelor's Hall, Prosper Estate and Pen, Richmond Pen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot) 45(F) 26(M)  
[Name] Richmond Pen  
 

In the possession of Robert Chisholm as attorney to Philip John Miles owner.

 
T71/190 560-562
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond Pen  
 

In the possession of Robert Chisholm as attorney to Phillip John Miles.

 
T71/191 414-415
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot) 55(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Richmond Pen  
 

In the possession of Robert Chisholm Esq. as attorney to Philip John Miles Esq.

 
T71/192 336-337
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot) 59(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Richmond Pen  
 

In the possession of Robert Chisholm as attorney to Philip John Miles.

 
T71/193 85
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond Pen  
 

In the possession of John Irving as attorney to Philip John Miles Esquire.

 
T71/196 74
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond Pen  
 

In the possession of John Irving as attorney to Philip John Miles Esquire.

 
T71/199 116
1839
[Name] Richmond etc  
[Size] 4006  
 

Registered to Philip J. Miles. Assumed to include Bachelor's Hall, Prosper Estate and Pen, Richmond Pen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.