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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
1799 [EA] - → Owner
1809 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Receiver
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Receiver
1823 [EA] - → Receiver
1826 [EA] - → Receiver
1828 [EA] - → Receiver
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
1834 [EA] - → Receiver

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Estate Information (24)

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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
 

Registered in Hanover to George Brisset with 189 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799. May possibly have been amalgamated with an estate called Endeavour, also in Hanover in the same source, registered to George Brisset with 187 people (this estate has not been identified).

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 23.
1799
[Name] Content  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover 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.
1807
[Name] Content  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Joseph Brissett Esq. deceased. Account filed by Alexander McIntosh as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 126-127
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 467(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 329  
 

Registered to heirs of Joseph Brissett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.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] 449(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 62  
 

Registered to Joseph Brissett 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] 424(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 302  
 

Registered to heirs of Joseph Brissett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 419(Tot) 206(F) 213(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In possession of Alexander Campbell and Philip Anglin Scarlett Esquires, as receivers.

 
T71/190 40-50
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 419(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 278  
 

Registered to heirs of Joseph Brissett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 423(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 288  
 

Registered to heirs of Joseph Brissett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 411(Tot)  
[Name] Content Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell as receiver for Content estate and executor and trustee under the will of the late Joseph Brissett.

 
T71/191 27-29
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 413(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 280  
 

Registered to heirs of Joseph Brissett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 412(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to heirs of Joseph Brissett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 384(Tot)  
[Name] Content Estate  
 

In the possession of Joseph Brisset Esquire as proprietor & recevier.

 
T71/192 36-39
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 387(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 270  
 

Registered to heirs of Joseph Brissett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 381(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 292  
 

Registered to heirs of Joseph Brissett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 371(Tot) 181(F) 190(M)  
[Name] Content Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell as receiver to Content Estate. "Registered in Hanover in June 1823 by Joseph Brissett as receiver and proprietor."

 
T71/193 444-447
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 372(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 37  
 

Registered to heirs of Joseph Brissett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 380(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 36  
 

Registered to heirs of Joseph Brissett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to Thomas Huie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 322(Tot)  
[Name] Content Estate  
 

In the possession of Frederick Burt Zincke as receiver for Content Estate. 67 enslaved people sold since 1826.

 
T71/195 79-80
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 323(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to Frederick B. Zincke.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 323(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 48  
 

Registered to Frederick B. Zincke.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 326(Tot) 157(F) 169(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Frederick Burt Zincke as receiver.

 
T71/199 291
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 327(Tot)  
[Name] Content  
[Stock] 39  
 

Registered to F. B. Zincke.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

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