Albion

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Associated People (10)

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
1752 [SY] - 1768 [EY] → Joint owner
1752 [SY] - 1768 [EY] → Joint owner
1768 [SY] - 1772 [EY] → Owner

David Hancock noted that the Albion and Eden plantations were jointly owned of Sir Alexander Grant and Alexander Grant of Achoynanie until 1768. The lands were then divided by casting lots. Sir Alexander acquired Albion and along with it 215 enslaved people. The value of the property was assessed at £12,803.

1826 [SY] - → Owner
1772 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Previous owner
1807 [EA] - 1825 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£6,103 18S 10D

Estate Information (53)

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1767
[Name] Albion  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Alexander Grant Esq. Account filed by James Robertson of Kingston as merchant and one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 94
1768
[Name] Albion  
 

Belonging to Alexander Grant Esq. Account filed by James Robertson of Kingston as merchant and one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 52
1769
[Name] Albion  
 

Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by John Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 199
1770
[Name] Albion  
 

Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by John Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 23
1771
[Name] Albion  
 

Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by John McColl.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 145
1772
[Size] 1519  
 

David Hancock extracted data on the acreage from Sir Alexander Grant's 1772 probate inventory, Jamaica National Archives, Spanishtown.

 
David Hancock, Citizens of the world: London merchants and the integration of the British Atlantic community, 1735-1785, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995), p.410
1772
[Name] Albion  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John Allen.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 151
1773
[Name] Albion  
 

Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 151
1774
[Name] Albion  
 

Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 145
1775
[Name] Albion  
 

Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 145
1776
[Name] Albion  
 

Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 146
1779
[Name] Albion  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John Mackenzie planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 149
1783
[Name] Albion  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

The property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by James Barton as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 98
1786
[Name] Albion Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Alexander Grant Bart deceased; account filed by James Barton, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 94-95
1787
[Name] Albion Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lewis Clarke planter overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 46-47 f.24
1789
[Name] Albion Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lewis Clarke planter as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 423 f.209
1790
[Name] Albion Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lewis Clark planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 438-439 [f.220]
1791
[Name] Albion Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. deceased. Account filed by Alexander Anderson planter overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 285 [f.137]
1792
[Name] Albion Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Bart deceased under the care and direction of Alexander Anderson from 01/01/1792 to 25/06/1792 and of Lewis McPherson for the remainder of the year. Account filed by David Davies book keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 82-83
1793
[Name] Albion Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lewis MacPherson as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 26
1794
[Name] Albion Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lewis Macpherson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 102-103
1795
[Name] Albion Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Johnson, head bookkeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 3
1796
[Name] Albion Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people, rent  
 

Account filed by George Huxham, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Albion Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by George Huxham as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 43
1798
[Name] Albion  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by George Huxham overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 33
1798
[Name] Albion  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Albion Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people, rent  
 

Account filed by George Huxham overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 201-202
1800
[Name] Albion Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, wharfage  
 

Account filed by James Bell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 162
1801
[Name] Albion Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by James Bell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 150
1803
[Name] Albion  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people, rents  
 

Account filed by James Bell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 139
1807
[Name] Albion  
[Crop] sugar, rum, land rental, provision of shipping facilities and landing supplies  
 

Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant and under the care and direction of Robert Watt. Account filed by Robert Watt as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 46-47
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 365(Tot)  
[Name] Albion and Retreat  
[Stock] 241  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.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] 367(Tot)  
[Name] Albion etc.  
[Stock] 187  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant. Assumed to include Retreat.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 319(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 147  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 422(Tot) 230(F) 192(M)  
[Name] Albion Estate and Retreat Estate  
 

Francis Graham, attorney to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
T 71/33 870-883
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 925(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 153  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 315(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 414(Tot) 221(F) 193(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Larchin Gordon, attorney to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet. Assumed to be Albion and Retreat.

 
T 71/34 104v-105v
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 179  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 311(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 181  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 416(Tot) 216(F) 200(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Larchin Gordon, attorney to Sir Alexander Grant. Assumed to be Albion and Retreat.

 
T 71/35 162-165
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 312(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 157  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 298(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 164  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 397(Tot) 210(F) 187(M)  
[Name] Retreat Estate  
 

James Laing, attorney to Sir Alexander Cray Grant Baronet, heir at law of Sir Alexander Grant Bart., deceased. Assumed to be Albion and Retreat.

 
T 71/36 130-132
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 297(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 160  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 171  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Name] Albion Estate and Retreat Estate  
 

Sir Alexander Grant Baronet as owner.

 
T 71/37 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 379(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 365(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 41  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Cray Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 356(Tot)  
[Name] Albion  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Cray Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 352(Tot) 182(F) 170(M)  
[Name] Retreat Estate  
 

Richard Harrison, attorney to Sir Alexander Cray Grant Baronet [decrease by deaths and manumissions]. Assumed to be Albion and Retreat.

 
T 71/41 220
1839
[Name] Albion  
[Size] 1388  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Cray Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.