Seven Mile Walk

Estate Details


Associated People (8)

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
- 1770 [LA] → Owner

William Beckford died in 1770.

- 1740 [LA] → Previous owner

Gauci used information from the inventories of Peter Beckford's estates. The inventories noted the property was co-owned by Beckford.

1799 [EA] - → Owner
1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
1823 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
1827 [EA] - → Previous owner

Estate Information (24)

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1740
[Name] Seven Miles Walk  
 

Peter Beckford's estate inventory noted that he co-owned the property and that the stock was valued at £2255 Jamaican pounds. The value of the crop was £519 Jamaican pounds.

 
Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.44
1740
[Name] Seven mile walk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late Peter Beckford Esq. Senior and his copartners. Account filed by William Beckford. The estates of Retreat, Kays, Malmsey Valley, Crofts, Rock River, Lime Hall, Danks, Petersfield, Shrewsbury, Roaring River, Hatfield, Smithfield, Barbadoes Valley, Lewis's Crawle, Beckford & Forbes Plantation, Seven Mile Walk, Dirty Pitt Pen, Dry sugar Work Pen, Two Mile Wood Pen, Bodles Pen, Withy Wood Pen and Esher were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 76
1740
[Name] Seven mile walk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late Peter Beckford Esq. Senior and his copartners. Account filed by Richard Beckford Esq. attorney to Mrs. Bathshua Beckford and Mr. Julmes and Francis Beckford. The estates of Retreat, Kays, Malmsey Valley, Crofts, Rock River, Lime Hall, Danks, Petersfield, Shrewsbury, Roaring River, Hatfield, Smithfield, Barbadoes Valley, Lewis's Crawle, Beckford & Forbes Plantation, Seven Mile Walk, Dirty Pitt Pen, Dry sugar Work Pen, Two Mile Wood Pen, Bodles Pen, Withy Wood Pen and Esher were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 79
1754
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The several Estates of William Beckford, under the direction of Richard Lewing & John Mclead. Account filed by Richard Lewing, one of the attorneys. Retreat, Rock River, Malmsey Valley, Danks, Karys's Cralie, Moores, Harbour Head, Stanton, Esher, Guamaboa, Seven Mile Walk, Stanton Estates. Crops are for all the estates combined.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 3
1770
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richard Lewing Esq. as one of the attorneys to the late William Beckford Esq. and since his decease one of the attorneys to the executor of the said William Beckford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 30
1771
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Davis, gentleman. Under the care and direction of Richard Lewing Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 180
1772
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Davis, gentleman. Under the care and direction of Richard Lewing Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 5
1773
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richard Lewing Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 183
1774
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Ronald Macdonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 260
1775
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Property of the late William Beckford Esq. Account filed by Ronald MacDonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 15
1778
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Ronald MacDonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 77
1780
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of William Beckford Esquire deceased. Account filed by Ronald MacDonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 7-8
1781
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Ronald MacDonald as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 111
1782
[Name] Seven Mile Walk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by James Dore, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 165
1783
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Fynn as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 146-7
1784
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by J. S. Woodburne as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 164
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)  
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Philip Redwood with 30 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 49.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] Seven-mile Walk  
[Stock] 88  
 

Registered to the estate of Hon. P. Redwood.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot)  
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Stock] 80  
 

Registered to the estate of Hon. P. Redwood.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_01.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 283(Tot) 127(F) 156(M)  
[Name] Philipsburgh and Seven Mile Pen  
 

In the possession of Robert Hamilton as joint owner with Andrew Bogle.

 
T71/25 39
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot)  
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Stock] 80  
 

Registered to the estate of Hon. P. Redwood.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 35(Tot)  
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Stock] 178  
 

Registered to John Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot)  
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Stock] 100  
 

Registered to John Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot)  
[Name] Seven Mile Walk  
[Stock] 200  
 

Registered to the estate of John Gordon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.