Petherton

Estate Details


Associated People (5)

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
1798 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Owner
1801 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Previous owner
1810 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Joint owner
1810 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Joint owner
1816 [EA] - 1816 [LA] → Not known

Estate Information (10)

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1798
[Name] Petherton Penn  
[Crop] coffee, hire of enslaved people, ginger  
 

Belonging to William Hay Davis Esq under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries as his trustee. Account filed by Robert Stewart for the year ending 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 211
1799
[Name] Petherton Penn  
[Crop] coffee, cocoa  
 

Property of William Hay Davis Esq under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries attorney. Account filed by Robert Stewart clerk to Samuel Jeffries for the year ending 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 85
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Petherton  
 

Registered in Westmoreland in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at a vestry convened for that purpose 15/11/1799 and subsequent days. No ownership details given.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 36.
1801
[Name] Petherton Plantation  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Belonging to William Hay Davis Esq deceased, under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries, Trustee for the said Plantation. Account filed by Robert Brown as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 216
1803
[Name] Petherton Penn  
[Crop] coffee  
 

Belonging to the heirs of William Hay Davies deceased under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries as trustee in possession of the settlement. Account filed by Robert Brown as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 85
1807
[Name] Petherton Settlement  
[Crop] Rental of settlement and interest on rent  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Willliam Hay Davis Esq. deceased and under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries as trustee. Account filed by George Kirlew clerk to Samuel Jeffries.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 88
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot)  
[Name] Pesherton  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to Burt & Todd.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Westmd.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] 68(Tot)  
[Name] Petherton  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to Burt and Todd.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co1.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] Petherton  
[Stock] 73  
 

Registered to Burt & Todd.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Name] Petherton  
 

Joseph Stone Williams was shown against Carawina (263 stock/353 'slaves); Anglesea (37 stock/61 enslaved people) and Petherton (simply '85', which might refer either to stock or to enslaved people) in the 1817 Jamaica Almanac for returns in March 1816.

 
1817 Jamaica Almanac at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_06.htm