Amity Hall

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  • SY - Association Start Year
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  • EY - Association End Year
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1762 [EA] - 1764 [LA] → Previous owner
1774 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
1801 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
1809 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - → Executor
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Receiver
1820 [EA] - → Agent
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Other

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£1,572 18S 10D

Estate Information (52)

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1762
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late James Lawrence and Thomas Atkins.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 44
1763
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late James Lawrence and Thomas Atkins.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 44
1764
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late James Lawrence and Thomas Atkins.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4
1773
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Robert Hall.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 97
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 57  
 

Listed as belonging to John Jackson with 5 men bearing arms and 0 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 66 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1774
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Robert Hall.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 97
1781
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Jackson Esquire in trust to John Jarrett Esquire. Account filed by John Hornsey as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 2
1781
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No date given. Listed among registrations for 1781. Property of John Jackson Esquire in trust to John Jarrett Esquire. Account filed by Charles Binton Whitehead as agent for the said trustee.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 60
1782
[Name] Amity Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed for 1 Dec 1781 to 1 Dec 1782. Property of John Jackson Esquire. Account filed by William Hunter, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 182
1785
[Name] Amity Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by by William Ryan overseer of Amity Hall.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 44
1786
[Name] Amity Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Ryan, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 118
1787
[Name] Amity Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In trust to the Hon Richard Batty Esq and William Dawes Quarrell Esq; account filed by William Ryan, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 122
1788
[Name] Amity Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Price.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 70
1789
[Name] Amity Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Bourke as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 428-429 f.212
1790
[Name] Amity Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Leonard Parkinson attorney for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 434-435
1792
[Name] Amity Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Bourke late overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 189
1793
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Jackson Esq of the City of London, Great Britain by John Perry Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Edward Walsh as overseer for the period 26/01/1793 to 29/05/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 30
1794
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Jackson Esq of the City of London, Great Britain by John Perry Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Edward Walsh as overseer for the period 13/01/1794 to 05/05/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 139-140
1795
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people  
 

On the order of John Perry Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Thomas Pedler as overseer for the period 12/01/1795 to 09/06/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 191-192
1796
[Name] Amity Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, sale of enslaved people, hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to John Jackson, Esq. Account given by John Perry Esq, attorney. Account filed by Thomas Pedlar, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Amity Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Jackson of GB. Account given by John Perry, Esq, attorney. Account filed by John Pedlar, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 194
1798
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Jackson Esq of Great Britain on the order of John Perry Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Thomas Pedler as overseer for the period 02/01/1798 to 28/06/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 109
1799
[Name] Amity Hall  
[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.
1799
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Glasford Chalmers overseer. The property of John Jackson of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 170-171
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with John Jackson as the proprietor.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 27. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1800
[Name] Amity Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Jackson Esq, account given in by order of Patrick Grey and Henry Heywood Esquires, attornies for said plantation. Account filed by Henry Heywood.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 108
1801
[Name] Amity Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under Mortgage to John Jarrett of Freemantle in the Kingdom of Great Britain Esq. Account given in by order of Patrick Gray and David Keir Esquires, Attornies for said plantation. Account filed by James Stewart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 212
1803
[Name] Amity Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of John Jarrett Esq of Great Britain, mortgagee of the crop, on the order of Patrick Gray and David Kerr Esq.s attornies for the plantation. Account filed by James Stewart as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 58
1804
[Name] Amity Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum, steers and cow, old iron  
 

In the possession of John Jarrett, mortgagee. Account given in the names of Patrick Gray and David Kerr attornies for said plantation. Account filed by Wiliam Kerr, overseer to said plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 122
1807
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

In the possession of John Jarrett Esq. of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by James McKinlay as overseer given in by David Kerr and John Tharp as attornies of the plantation..

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 93-94
1808
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock and sheet of lead  
 

In the possession of John Jarrett Esq. of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by James McKenlay as overseer and given in by David Kerr and John Tharp as attornies.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 179-180
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to Assees. of John Jackson.

 
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] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to assignees of John Jackson.

 
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] 112(Tot)  
[Name] Amity-Hall  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 74  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot) 57(F) 58(M)  
[Name] Amity Hall Estate  
 

In the possession of William M. Kerr as attorney of Messrs Herbert Newton Jarrett and Richard Meyler of Great Britain, executors of John Jarrett deceased who was a creditor of John Jackson deceased.

 
T71/202 19-22
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 82  
 

Registered to Honorable Samuel Jackson.

 
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] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 102  
 

Registered to Hon. Samuel Jackson.

 
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] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall Estate  
 

In the possession of Ralph Bernard Mountague as Agent to the Hon Samuel Jackson Receiver for the Amity Hall Estate.

 
T71/206 337
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to William M. Kerr.

 
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] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 80  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 106(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney of Herbert Newton Jarrett of Great Britain, Exor of John Jarrett decd who was a Creditor of John Jackson decd.

 
T71/210 41
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 77  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 102(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 58(F) 44(M)  
[Name] Amity Hall Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney to Herbert Newton Jarrett of Great Britain, Exor of John Jarrett decd who was a creditor of John Jackson decd.

 
T71/214 222
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 103(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 99(Tot) 52(F) 47(M)  
[Name] Amity Hall Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney to Herbert Newton Jarrett, Exor of John Jarrett decd who was a Creditor of John Jackson decd.

 
T71/218 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to John Jarrett.

 
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] 93(Tot)  
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Stock] 58  
 

Registered to John Jarrett.

 
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] 87(Tot) 47(F) 40(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William M Kerr as Attorney to Herbert Newton Jarrett decd, who was a Creditor of John Jackson decd.

 
T71/222 403
1839
[Name] Amity Hall  
[Size] 235  
 

Registered to heirs of John Janett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.