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From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <>
Subject: [CARIBBEAN-L] Some Jamaican estate & other names/1838
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 15:24:30 -0400


> Extracts from "The West Indies in 1837" by Joseph Sturge &Thomas Harvey, London 1838. Some
> names of Jamaican Estates, their owners, attorneys and apprentices, and other persons named
> in the book (book has no index)
> [N.B. "Apprentice" means a former slave, freed at abolition but required to serve a term of
> indenture to the former slave master before gaining full freedom.EW]
>
> Kingston & St. Andrew
>
> Sir Lionel SMITH, Governor in Spanish Town (13 miles from Kingston)
> Dowell O'REILLY, Attorney General
> Richard HILL, Assistant Secretary
> BROWNSON, Special Justice
> NETHERSOLE, Alderman
> PANTON, Richard, clergyman, C of E
> J.M. TREW, Director of the Mico Institution
> Joshua TINSON, Senior Baptist missionary
> W. Wemyss ANDERSON
> Stephen BOURNE, Special Magistrate
> HAMILTON, Special Magistrate
> D.O. HIGGINS, Special Magistrate
> Dr. A.L. PALMER, Special Magistrate appointed by Lord SLIGO
> Capt. Hinton EAST, wife & young family
> Robert OSBORN, proprietor & editor of the WATCHMAN newspaper
> Edward JORDAN, his partner
> M'C VICAR, free "young man of color"
> Joseph GORDON, "Planting attorney" & member of the Assembly
> Alexandre BRAVO, "one of the most extensive resident proprietors in the island
> and a Custos & member of Assembly". Owned (at least)2 estates abt 10 miles from
> Spanish Town
> Charles HARVEY, lawyer of Spanish Town
> Major WILKIE, Custos of the Parish of St. Andrew
>
> All the Baptist Missionaries in Jamaica in 1837:
> Joshua TINSON
> James M. PHILLIPPO
> Thomas BURCHELL
> William KNIBB
> Henry C. TAYLOR
> John CLARKE
> Francis GARDNER
> William WHITEHORNE
> Thomas F. ABBOTT
> Walter DENDY
> John KINGDON
> Benjamin R. DEXTER
> John HUTCHINS
> John CLARK
> Samuel OUGHTON
>
> Estates
> BUSHY PARK Estate - "one of the largest & most populous in the island".
> HOPE Estate - owner, the Duke of Buckingham
> CLIFTON MOUNT - a large coffee estate near the summit of St. Catherine's Peak
> - Colin CHISHOLM, Estate Attorney
> COLD SPRING - "the ruins of the property of the WALLENS, celebrated by Bryan
> - EDWARDS" near Content Gap.
> DUBLIN CASTLE - coffee plantation, St. Andrew- owner, Alderman ATKINS
> CAYMANAS Estates:
> - ELLIS'S - owner Lord SEAFORD
> - TAYLOR'S - owner EWING of Glasgow
> - DAWKINS' - Attorney T.J. BERTRAND
> FARM Estate - "a pen or cattle estate" owner Lord CARRINGTON
> - Joseph GORDON - Estate Attorney
> - Whitehall ELLIS, head negro aged abt 70 : "he has a numerous family of
> descendants and is a man of considerable property, being possessed of a light
> tax cart, and a number of cattle and sheep. He owned before the 1st of August,
> nine slaves, twenty head of cattle, and seventy sheep but like other prosperous
> men he has experienced occasional reverses. His speculations in slaves did not
> turn out well... As he himself being a slave could not hold slaves in his own right,
> he was likely also to lose the Compensation, through the faithlessness of the
> friend in whose name they had been registered"...
> MOLYNES Estate - Owner Anthony Davis resident in England (also owner of
> SPENCER'S PEN in St. Catherine's Parish).
> -James DUNDASS, Overseer
>
> Parish of St. Thomas in the Vale
>
> WALLEN Estate -
> - George DAVIDSON, apprentice, head carpenter.
> ROSE HALL Estate-
> BENDLEY'S -
> DAWKIN'S TREADWAY-
> - Sally HUTCHINSON, apprentice
> BERWICK Estate - owner Sir A.C. GRANT
> RIO MAGNO - owner Sir A.C. GRANT
> PALM - proprietor ___ GUTTERES
> RECESS - [neighbouring plantation to PALM] - owner Mr. Nicholas GYLES
> - Lewis GRANT, apprentice, a Baptist "a great leader among the other negros".
>
> Parish of St. Ann
>
> G.W. BRIDGES - Rector of St. Ann's Parish
> T.F. ABBOTT - Baptist Missionary
> WILLIAMS - Wesleyan Missionary
>
> ARCADIA - owner W.A. HANKEY, (near Stewart's Town on border of Trelawney)
> HYDE HALL - owner E. SHIRLEY, (near Falmouth)
> BALLANTYNE -
> BANKS estate - Banks & Richmond estates have same Attorney
> RICHMOND estate - owner Ralph BERNAL, M.P.
> BLENHEIM -
> CARLTON PEN -
> CRANBROOK -
> CHESTER-
> DRAX HALL -
> KNAPDALE Estate -
> NEW GROUND -
> PENSHURST - [20 miles from CHESTER] owner G.W. SENIOR.
> - Capt. RAWLINSON, Stipendiary Magistrate at Brown's Town.
> - Dr. E. TUCKER, estate doctor
> - James WILLIAMS, apprentice, negro youth
> - Thomas BROWN, apprentice
> - Lavinia TROWERS, apprentice: 3 children, her husband lives on KNAPDALE
> estate
> - Amelia LAWRENCE, apprentice
> - Maria DALLING, apprentice, "6 children living"; works in cane gang.
> - William DALLING, apprentice, house servant. A Baptist
> - Henry JAMES - watchman to a corn piece. Died after severe flogging.
> RETREAT PEN - owner S.M. BARRETT [near to Brown's Town]
> - SAMUELS - black overseer, born a slave but freed
> - SAMUELS, his daughter aged abt 19, the teacher of the estate school
> ROSE HILL Estate -
> SOUTHAMPTON -
> TRIPOLI -
> WINDSOR -
>
> Parish of Trelawney
>
> OXFORD Estate - owner Edward BARRETT "a good massa in England"
> 300 negros, one third Baptists
> CAMBRIDGE Estate - owner Edward BARRETT
> - HAWES - Overseer; "overseer is a man of war" (bad man)
> - PRYCE - Special Justice
> - Richard BARRETT, negro, carpenter on Cambridge for 28 years
> GOODHOPE - nine contiguous estates of one owner
>
> The Parishes of St James & Hanover
>
> LATIUM Estate
> - W. CARNABY, Special Magistrate for the district
> - Henry HUNTER, Estate Attorney
> EDEN Estate - at Mt. Carey near Montego Bay
> WILTSHIRE Estate -
> - FENTON - Resident Attorney
> - NORCOTT - Special Justice
> MONTPELIER - owner Lord SEAFORD
> - FACEY, Special Magistrate
> - ODELLE, Special Magistrate
> BELVIDERE Estate -
> SALT SPRING Estate -
> - FINLAYSON - Special Magistrate
> NEW MILL Estate - Hanover
> - PRINGLE - Magistrate
> - Lucy Ann STEPHEN, apprentice (8 children)
> - Judy EVANS, apprentice (8 children)
> COVENTRY Estate - owner HIBBERT
> - GRANT - Estate Attorney
> - Susan MACKENZIE, apprentice. A Baptist
> PORTO BELLO -
> WORCESTER Estate -
> - CARNABY - Magistrate?
> PROSPER PEN -
> - GRANT - Estate Attorney
> - Richard SHEPPIE, apprentice
> GREAT VALLEY - (near Lucea?)
> FAIRFIELD -
> St. CATHERINE'S HALL -
> BAMBOO Estate -
> FLOWER HILL-
> CHILDERMAS -
> DEARNE HILL - owner HISLOP (Attorney for LEOGAN Estate)
> - COCKING, Special Magistrate
> BEVERLEY -
> PITFORE PEN -
> ROUND HILL -
> HARTFIELD -
> CATHERINE MOUNT -
> LEOGAN ESTATE - (7 miles from AMITY HALL)
> - HISLOP - Estate Attorney
> - Emmy MACKINTOSH - apprentice; nurse to child of HISLOP's concubine
> - Margaret SAMUEL, washer for the house (for the attorney, his concubine & for
> his daughter by another woman, and for Mr COCKING, Special Magistrate)
> - Thomas FOWLER - head cartman
> AMITY HALL -
>
> The Parish of Hanover
>
> Alexander CAMPBELL - Senior Magistrate, resident in Lucea.
> John STAINSBY - Rector of the Parish of Lucea
> J.H. EVELYN, of the Customs
>
> PHOENIX Estate - proprietor Master QUARRELL (residing in England)
> - PHELP, Magistrate of the Phoenix Estate district
> - HULM , Magistrate (Savannah La Mar, Westmoreland)
> - OLIVER, Magistrate
> - MURDOCK, Overseer
> - Bessy GRANT, apprentice
> - Sarah NELSON, apprentice
> - Cyrus WALLACE, sugar boiler
> - Anna Buchanan STEVENS, apprentice
> - Sarah DALRYMPLE, apprentice
>
> Hanover and Westmoreland
>
> FROME Estate -
> - MACFARLANE, Overseer
> GLASGOW Estate - owner R.WALLACE, M.P. For Greenock (Scotland)
> GROVE PLAIN -
> FRIENDSHIP - Sugar estate, owner Lord HOLLAND ("Missis [Lady Holland] has been
> kind to we")
> - Bettriss HOLLAND, apprentice
> - Kitty JONES, apprentice
> - Dolly FERGUSON, apprentice
> - Christian WILLIAMS, apprentice
> - Ruth ALLEN, apprentice
> - George BLAKE, apprentice
> - Catherine BLAKE, his wife, a washer in the house
> SWEET RIVER PEN - owner Lord Holland
> GREEN ISLAND PEN -
> - Benjamin CAPON , "Busha" i.e. Overseer
> - Oriana WEBSTER, apprentice, & her daughter
> PETERSFIELD Estate -
> ROARING RIVER -
> - Catherine LEWIS, apprentice
> SHREWSBURY -
> - William SQUARRY, apprentice (young man)
> CORNWALL -
> DEAN'S VALLEY DRY WORKS -
> - McNEEL, Estate Attorney
> - James GRINDFIELD, apprentice
> FONTABELLE -
> - Mr. George COLLO, former Estate Attorney
> - SHALLITO, Estate Attorney
> SMITHFIELD -
> - Ann CAMPBELL, house servant; "she has no relations"
> CONTENT PEN - James RANKIN, master. (Inherited from his father)
> PROSPECT Estate -
> HOPETON - sugar estate, owner Hutchinson M. SCOTT, near Sav. la Mar.
> LENOX - sugar estate adjoining Hopeton, same proprietor
> - William HAMILTON, Overseer, "a man of color", free.
> THE BOG - neighbouring sugar estate of Hopeton in the mountains on the border of
> Westmoreland & St. Elizabeth
>
> The Parish of St. Elizabeth
>
> HOLLAND Estate - owner GLADSTONE
> SPURTREE - a large Pen near Fairfield
>
> The Parish of Clarendon
>
> GREEN PARK -
> YORK PEN -
> - Elizabeth FRANCIS, apprentice: "I was never in the field, but belonged to Mr.
> SCOTT's mother who gave me 10 shillings a week wages"
> " the doctor was a black man from PARNASSUS Estate; we never had a white
> doctor".
> SHECKLES PASTURE - former owner the Hon Wm. ROWE, President of the Council
> who also owned another estate in Manchester about 30 miles away, and a cousin
> of the Magistrate in Manchester.
> - Thomas GALE, apprentice: ordered to remove form Sheckles Pasture to the
> Manchester plantation 30 miles away.
> BELLE PLAIN -
> WOODSIDE PLAIN -
> - DAWSON, Magistrate
> BELMONT -
> - GORDON, Magistrate at Chapeltown
> - Thomas THOMAS, penkeeper
>
> The Parish of St. Thomas in The East
>
> HECTOR'S RIVER - owner Major HALL (absentee) near Manchineal Bay
> GRANGE HILL - owner Sir Henry FITZHENRY near Manchineal Bay
> - James PURTON, apprentice
> - Louisa BURTON, apprentice, cotton picker
> ELMWOOD -
> - HENDY - Overseer
> HAYNING - CARGILL, master
> MULATTO RIVER -
> - Beckford ROSS, apprentice "belongs to Belle Castle but works on Mulatto River,
> nine miles distant".
> BELLE CASTLE -
> WILLIAMSFIELD - sugar estate, near Manchineal Bay
> - James COCKBURN, Estate Attorney
> WHEELERSFIELD Estate -
> AMITY HALL Estate - In the Plantain Garden River district
> - KIRKLAND, resident overseer & Joint attorney of the estate
> GOLDEN GROVE - an estate on the other side of the Plantain Garden River from
> Amity Hall.
> - Thomas McCORNOCK, Estate Attorney & Custos of the Parish
> DUCKINGFIELD -
> HOLLAND Estate -
> - DAUGHTREY, Magistrate
> - BLAKE, Magistrate
> - George WALTERS, tradesman (apprentice?)
> BELVIDERE - "a large estate a few miles distant from Morant Bay" owner "a French
> Nobleman, Count FREEMAN"
> RURAL VALE Estate -
> - Lydia KING, apprentice
> ELMWOOD - owner, Edward PANTON, Judge Advocate General
> HAPPY GROVE plantation - owner George CODRINGTON, neighbouring Belle Castle, between Bath &
> Manchineal
> WINDSOR FOREST - "an abandoned sugar estate of 600 acres", the property &
> residence of Captain QUELCH. On the borders of the Parish of Portland 9 miles
> from Manchineal.

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