Dunrobin

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Associated People (6)

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
1799 [EA] - → Joint owner
1799 [EA] - → Joint owner
1799 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
1831 [EA] - → Previous owner
1832 [EA] - → Other

Purchaser of enslaved people (who he moved to his own estate) from the estate of James Sutherland, of which he was himself executor

1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£150 7S 6D

Notes

Most of the enslaved people upon this estate were sold to Adam Hogg between 1829 and 1832 after the death of James Sutherland. Dunrobin was registered to Bertha/Birthea Brice, Sutherland's common-law wife, in the almanacs of 1833 and 1840 so presumably she inherited the land.


Estate Information (23)

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1799
[Name] Virtue & Sutherland's  
 

Plotted In Clarendon (later Manchester) as a pen or other non-sugar estate 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 completed in 1799.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] Donrobbin  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to James Sutherland in Clarendon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Clarend.htm.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 25(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobin  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to James Sutherland in Vere.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot) 6(F) 17(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Sutherland as owner.

 
T71/65 442
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobin  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to James Sutherland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 29(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobin  
[Stock] 31  
 

Registered to James Sutherland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 28(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Sutherland as owner.

 
T71/66 280-281
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Sutherland as owner. Removed from and registered in Vere.

 
T71/66 299
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobin  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to James Sutherland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobie  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to James Sutherland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot) 16(F) 22(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Sutherland as Lessee. Increase of 37 enslaved people returned from other parishes on lease - 8 "returned last in Kingston on Lease", 29 "Last returned in St Catherine on lease".

 
T71/67 280-281
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 28(Tot) 9(F) 19(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Sutherland as owner.

 
T71/67 278
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobie  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to James Sutherland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24manc.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobin  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to James Sutherland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 28(Tot) 10(F) 18(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Sutherland as Owner.

 
T71/68 437
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobin  
 

Registered to James Sutherland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobin  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to James Sutherland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobin  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to James Sutherland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29manc.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot) 11(F) 19(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Sutherland as Owner.

 
T71/72 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 29(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobin  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to James Sutherland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831manc.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 28(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobin  
 

Registered to the estate of James Sutherland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32manc.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 8(Tot)  
[Name] Dunrobin  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to Bertha Brice.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Manch.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Dunrobin  
[Size] 61  
 

Registered to Bertha Brice.

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