Esher 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
- 1763 [EY] → Owner
1776 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Previous owner
1787 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Joint owner
1787 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Previous owner

David Thomson's heirs were shown as co-owner of Esher estate and the enslaved people on it between 1787 and 1791.

1797 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Receiver
1810 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1819 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1830 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
1830 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£4,334 19S 1D

Estate Information (47)

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1757
[Name] Esher Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Williams, overseer and manager. Orange Cove and Esher Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 70
1758
[Name] Esher Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Williams.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 85
1759
[Name] Esher Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Williams.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 137
1760
[Name] Esher Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Williams.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 187
1761
[Name] Esher Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Williams.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 218
1776
[Name] Esher  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Richard Haughton Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richardson Redwar as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 101-2
1777
[Name] Esher  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Haughton Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richardson Redwar as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 80
1778
[Name] Esher  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Haughton Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richardson Redwar as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 81
1779
[Name] Esher  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Haughton Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richardson Redwar as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 81-2
1787
[Name] Esher Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Richard Haughton Reid Esq and Mrs Rebecca Thomson and the heirs of Dr David Thomson Esq deceased; account filed by John Lepraik, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 115
1787
[Name] Esher Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Richard Haughton Reid Esq, Mrs Rebecca Thomson and the heirs of David Thomson Esq deceased; account filed by John Lapraik as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 206
1788
[Name] Esher Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Bell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 110
1789
[Name] Esher Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Richard Haughton Esquire, Mrs Rebecca Thomson and the heirs of Dr David Thomson deceased. Account filed by Henry John Herell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 297-298 f.147
1790
[Name] Esther Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Richard Houghton Reid Esquire, Mrs Rebecca Thomson and the heirs of Dr David Thomson deceased. Account filed by James Caldwell as overseer. Accounts filed for 31/12/1789 to 31/12/1790.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 277-279 [f.139-140]
1791
[Name] Esher Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Richard Houghton Reid Esquire, Mrs Rebecca Thomson and the heirs of Dr David Thomson deceased. Account filed by James Caldwell as overseer. Accounts filed for 21/12/1790 to 31/12/1791.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 281-282 [f.141]
1797
[Name] Esher  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Richard Haughton Reid Esq as receiver. Account filed by Hugh Stephenson as overseer for the period 31/12/1796 to 31/12/1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 24
1798
[Name] Esher Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Richard Haughton Reid Esq as receiver appointed by the Chancellor. Account filed by Hugh Stephenson as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 170
1799
[Name] Esher estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Hugh Stephenson overseer. In the possession of Richard Haughton Reid Esquire as receiver appointed by the Chancellor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 210-211
1799
[Name] Esher  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and a windmill 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.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
 

Registered in Hanover to R. H. Reid et al with 230 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799. Possibly Richard Haughton Reid?

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 25.
1800
[Name] Esher Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In the possession of Richard Haughton Reid Esq as receive appointed by the Chancellor. Accounts filed for 1799-1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 109-110
1803
[Name] Esher Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

In the possession of Richard Naughton Reid, Esq, as receiver appointed by the Chancellor. Account given in the name of Robert Vernon, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 41
1807
[Name] Esher  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

In the possession of Richard Haughton Reid Esq. as receiver appointed by the Chancellor. Account presented by John Farquharson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 169
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 59  
 

Registered to Thomas Munro.

 
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] 243(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Thomas Munro.

 
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.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Eton  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to Peter Beckford.

 
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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 133  
 

Registered to Thomas Munro.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot) 103(F) 83(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Haldane Scott as attorney to Robert Edie Esquire the owner.

 
T71/190 286-291
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 101  
 

Registered to Robert Edie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 139  
 

Registered to Robert Edie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot)  
[Name] Esher Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert H. Scott as attorney to Robert Edie Esquire. Previous registration was for 186 enslaved people. Increase by purchase from Misses Isabella and Elizabeth Thomson enrolled in 1817 by Robert H. Scott attorney to Robert Edie Esquire who was renting them from Misses Thomson.

 
T71/191 211-213
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 135  
 

Registered to Robert Edie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to Robert Edie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] Esher Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert H Scott as attorney to Robert Edie Esquire of London, owner.

 
T71/192 201-203
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 143  
 

Registered to Robert Edie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 122  
 

Registered to Robert Edie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Esher Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert Allwood Esquire as attorney to the assignees of Robert Edie Esq.

 
T71/193 192-193
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to Robert Edie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to Robert Edie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to Robert Edie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot) 116(F) 100(M)  
[Name] Esher Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert Allwood as attorney to the assignees of the late Robert Edie dec'd.

 
T71/195 50
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to Thomas Greig.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Eaton  
[Stock] 55  
 

Registered to Lord Rivers.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to Thomas Greig.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot) 106(F) 120(M)  
[Name] Esher Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert Allwood as attorney to James Greig Esquire.

 
T71/198 256
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot)  
[Name] Esher  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to James Greig.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Esher  
[Size] 715  
 

Registered to James Greig.

 
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.