Cornwall

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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
- 1760 [EY] → Owner
1799 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 23/12/1837 [ED] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£8,791 14S 8D

Notes

Under the same ownership as Cinnamon Hill, also in St James, and often registered together. The enslaved people for St James claim no. 666 are assumed to be settled on Cornwall as well as on Cinnamon Hill.


Estate Information (28)

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1799
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Pess(?) overseer. Belonging to heirs of Edward Barnett Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 159-160
1799
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James 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.
1800
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Edward Barrett Esq deceased. Account filed by Thomas Jeffs as overseer

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 214
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 573(Tot)  
[Name] Cinnamon & Conol  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with Edward Barret as the proprietor. "Conol." is assumed to be Cornwall.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 26. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1801
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of Edward Barrett Esq deceased. Account filed by Thomas Jeffs as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 200-201
1803
[Name] Cornwall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Brissett Esq deceased. Account filed by Thomas Jeffs as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 187
1807
[Name] Cornwall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Edward M Barrett Esq. deceased. Account presented by Thomas Jeffs as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 168
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to Edward Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 536(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall and Cinnamon Hill  
[Stock] 84  
 

Registered to Samuel M. Barrett.

 
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] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 84  
 

Registered to Samuel M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot) 118(F) 88(M)  
[Name] Cornwall  
 

In the possession of Phillip Anglin Scarlett as attorney to Samuel Barrett Moulton Barrett.

 
T71/204 102-114
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 94  
 

Registered to Samuel M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 114  
 

Registered to Samuel M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 108  
 

Registered to Samuel M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 515(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Samuel Hilton as Attorney to Samuel Barrett Moulton Barrett. Assumed to be both Cinnamon Hill and Cornwall estates.

 
T71/205 340-344
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 109  
 

Registered to Samuel B. M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 96  
 

Registered to Samuel B. M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 493(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Samuel Hilton as Attorney of Samuel Barrett Moulton Barrett. Assumed to be both Cinnamon Hill and Cornwall estates.

 
T71/210 295-299
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 81  
 

Registered to Samuel B. M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 471(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Samuel Hilton Esq as Attorney of Samuel Barrett Moulton Barrett Esq.

 
T71/213 333-336
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 171  
 

Registered to Samuel B. M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to Samuel B. M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Samuel B. M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 472(Tot)  
[Name] Cinnamon Hill and Cornwall Estates  
 

In the possession of Samuel B.M. Barrett Esq as Receiver for Cinnamon Hill and Cornwall Estates.

 
T71/216 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
 

Registered to Samuel B. M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
 

Registered to Samuel B. M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 484(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Samuel B.M. Barrett as Proprietor. Increase of 14 enslaved people by purchase: 4 enslaved people last registered in Trelawny by Jane Bodden, 7 last registered in St James by Mrs Christian Gordon, 2 last registered by estate of Jeffs in St James, 1 last registered in Trelawny by estate of Robinson. Increase of 2 enslaved people by inheritance last registered by Mrs Moulton in St James. Decrease of 9 enslaved people by manumission. Assumed to be both Cinnamon Hill and Cornwall estates.

 
T71/222 42-43
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Cornwall  
 

Registered to Samuel B. M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.