Retreat Estate

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Associated People (16)

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
1767 [EA] - 1767 [LA] → Joint owner
1767 [EA] - 1767 [LA] → Joint owner
1769 [EA] - 1772 [LA] → Previous owner
1769 [EA] - 1772 [LA] → Previous owner
1774 [EA] - → Other

Tentative association with this Charles Bernard. Listed as proprietor but possibly executor instead.

1778 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Previous owner

Joseph Bowen previous owner of Retreat has been deduced by LBS to be the same man as Joseph Bowen of Westmoreland given the symmetry of their approximate death-dates.

1809 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Joint owner
1826 [EA] - → Joint owner
1826 [EA] - → Previous owner
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

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£1,803 15S 7D

Estate Information (40)

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1767
[Name] Retreat  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Messrs. Bernard and Eddy. Account filed by George Liddle as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 43
1769
[Name] Retreat  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of David Bernard and Joseph Eddy Esqs deceased. Account filed by George Liddle. Page torn.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 203
1770
[Name] Retreat  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to David Bernard and Joseph Eddy late Esqs. and now under the care and direction of Charles Bernard Esq. as executor to the said David Bernard and Jospeh Eddy. Account filed by George Liddle as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 199
1771
[Name] Retreat  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to David Bernard and Joseph Eddy late Esqs. and now under the care and direction of Charles Bernard Esq. as executor to the said David Bernard and Jospeh Eddy. Account filed by George Liddle as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 199
1772
[Name] Retreat  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of David Bernard and Joseph Eddy Esqs deceased and now under the care and direction of Charles Bernard Esq. as executor to the said David Bernard and Jospeh Eddy. Account filed by Patrick Creagh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 81
1773
[Name] Retreat  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Harris clerk to Charles Bernard Esq., there having been a change of overseer mid-crop.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 83
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 77  
 

Listed as belonging to Charles Bernard (& Leamy) with 5 men bearing arms and 1 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 81 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1778
[Name] Retreat Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of Joseph Bower Esquire deceased. Account filed by James Muir as overseer Accounts filed for 01/12/1777 to 01/01 1779.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 143 f.72
1780
[Name] Retreat Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the estate of Joseph Bowen deceased. Account filed by Walter Murray Esquire as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 6-7
1780
[Name] Retreat  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Joseph Bowen Esq. deceased. Account filed by James Muir as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 117
1781
[Name] Retreat Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed for 6 February 1781 to 6 June following. Property of the Estate of Joseph Bowen deceased. Account filed by James Muir as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 58-59
1782
[Name] Retreat Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Dennis Kelly as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 183 f.92
1796
[Name] Retreat Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Robert Bowens, Esq. Account filed by James Muir, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Retreat Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers and cow  
 

Belonging to Robert Bowen, Esq. Account filed by James Mair, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 135
1799
[Name] Retreat Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Brown Esq. Account filed by James Muir as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 61-62
1799
[Name] Retreat Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Bowen Esq. Account filed by Samuel Muir late overseer of Retreat Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 64
1799
[Name] Retreat  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with Robert Bowen as the proprietor.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 26. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 99  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 92  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
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] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 195  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 66(F) 59(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Joseph Robert Bowen as attorney to Robert Bowen Esq.

 
T71/203 145-148
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 164  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 162  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of P.A. Scarlett as Attorney to Robert Bowen, heir at law of Robert Scarlett and enrolled by him in 1817 in St James.

 
T71/207 268-269
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 160  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 156  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot) 61(F) 51(M)  
[Name] Retreat Estate  
 

In the possession of William Carr Walker as Attorney to Robert Bowen, Proprietor of Retreat Estate.

 
T71/210 235-236
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 110  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 68  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot) 58(F) 48(M)  
[Name] Retreat Estate  
 

In the possession of William Carr Walker as Attorney to Robert Bowen and Richard Lawrence Bowen, owners of Retreat Estate under the Will of Robert Bowen decd.

 
T71/213 22
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to Robert and Richard L. Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to Richard L. Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Joseph Bowen acting under the Will of the late Richard Bowen Esq decd.

 
T71/216 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 34  
 

Registered to Richard L. Bowen deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 94  
 

Registered to Richard L. Bowen deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Reynolds Esq as Attorney to Robert Bowen Esq.

 
T71/223 186
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Retreat  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Retreat  
[Size] 957  
 

Registered to Robert Bowen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.