Mount Pleasant

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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
1794 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Previous owner
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Not known
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Not known
1815 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Receiver
1823 [EA] - 1832 [EY] → Receiver
1830 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
1834 [EA] - → Receiver

Associated Claims (1)

£3,806 16S 9D

Estate Information (25)

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1791
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Arch.d McDuffie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 355 [f.172]
1792
[Name] Mount Pleasant Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Rich. McDuffie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 13-14
1794
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the care and management of Edward Wilson attorney to the heirs of Joshua Gilyatt deceased. Account filed by Edm.d Stoddart as overseer for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 166
1798
[Name] Mountpleasant  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Portland 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1807
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Lara as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 11
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] -  
 

Registered to Elliot & Anderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Portld.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] 213(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

Registered to Elliot and Anderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Mount-Pleasant  
[Stock] 80  
 

Registered to Benjamin C?os??.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 58  
 

Registered to Benjamin Crossley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot) 117(F) 92(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Crossley Esq as Receiver for Mount Pleasant Estate but who has since then departed hence and is now absent from this island and which slaves are in the possession of Samuel Price and Philip Jaquet Esquires as the Attornies of the said Benjamin Crossley.

 
T71/151 195-198
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to Benjamin Crossley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to Benjamin Crossley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Crossley as Receiver of Mount Pleasant Estate.

 
T71/152 172
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 76  
 

Registered to William Lambie, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot) 126(F) 93(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

In the possession of William Lambie as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery.

 
T71/153 86
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 68  
 

Registered to William Lambie, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 75  
 

Registered to William Lambie, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

In the possession of William Lambie as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery.

 
T71/154 78
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to William Lambie, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to William Lambie, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29portgeorg.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

In the possession of William Lambie as Receiver.

 
T71/155-156 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to heirs of ___ Gilleal, deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 17  
 

Registered to heirs of ___ Gilleal.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to heirs of --- Gilleal.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Portld.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

In the possession of William Lambie as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery for Mount Pleasant Estate.

 
T71/157 147