Palmyra 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
1818 [SY] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1797 [SY] - 1806 [EY] → Joint owner
1806 [SY] - 1818 [EY] → Owner
1797 [SY] - 1806 [EY] → Joint owner
- 1797 [EY] → Owner
1797 [SY] - 1847 [EY] → Annuitant
1815 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - → Receiver
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver

Associated Claims (1)

£1,697 7S 10D

Estate Information (27)

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1799
[Name] Palmira  
[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] 380(Tot)  
[Name] Rose Hall & Palmira  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with the heirs of John Palmer 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. 27. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1804
[Name] Palmyra Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner not given. Account filed in the name of Edward James, Junior, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 150
1807
[Name] Palmyra  
[Crop] sugar, rum and pimento  
 

Account filed by Mortimer Coveny.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 53
1808
[Name] Palmyra  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Mortimer Coveny as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 181-182
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 325(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra and Rosehall  
[Stock] 75  
 

Registered to John Palmer deceased.

 
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] 326(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra etc.  
[Stock] 85  
 

Registered to Hon. John Palmer deceased.

 
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] 116(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 175  
 

Registered to heirs of John Pallmer.

 
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] 109(Tot) 46(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Palmyra[?] Estate  
 

In the possession of Edward Mountague as receiver for Palmyra[?] Estate the property of John Palmer Esquire.

 
T71/202 535-539
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 189  
 

Registered to heirs of John Palmer.

 
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] 111(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 140  
 

Registered to heirs of John Palmer.

 
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] 105(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra Estate  
 

In the possession of John Rose Palmer as Receiver and Proprietor of Palmyra Estate.

 
T71/206 196
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to John Rose Palmer.

 
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] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 146  
 

Registered to John Rose Palmer.

 
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] 101(Tot) 46(F) 55(M)  
[Name] Palmyra Estate  
 

In the possession of John Rose Palmer as Receiver and Proprietor of Palmyra Estate.

 
T71/209 281
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 133  
 

Registered to John Rose Palmer.

 
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] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 166  
 

Registered to John Rose Palmer.

 
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] 94(Tot) 47(F) 47(M)  
[Name] Palmira Estate  
 

In the possession of John Rose Palmer as Receiver and Proprietor of Palmira Estate.

 
T71/214 29-30
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
 

Registered to John Rose Palmer. Number of stock unclear.

 
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] 112(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 62  
 

Registered to John Rose Palmer.

 
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] 108(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 62  
 

Registered to heirs of John Rose Palmer.

 
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] 89(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra Estate  
 

In the possession of William Heath as one of the Receivers of Rosehall and Palmyra Estates.

 
T71/218 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 73  
 

Registered to heirs of John Rose Palmer. Number of stock unclear as faded.

 
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] 108(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 208  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Rose Palmer.

 
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] 83(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
[Stock] 72  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Rose Palmer.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra Estate  
 

In the possession of William Heath as one of the Receivers of Rosehall and Palmyra.

 
T71/222 298
1839
[Name] Palmyra  
[Size] 1180  
 

Registered to heirs of John R. Palmer.

 
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.