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Ocho Rios

Jamaica | St Ann

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
- 1762 [LA] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
William Collier

In his will made in 1762 but not proved in London until 1776, William Collier instructed his executors in Jamaica Charles Price, John Williams and Alexander Harvie to sell Ochos Rios in which he held a reversionary interest in on the death of his wife.

1783 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Previous owner
John Williams of St Ann
1791 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Joint owner
John Russell Williams

Estate Information (11)

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1783
[Name] Ochos Rios  
[Crop] Cotton, pimento and livestock  
 

The property of the heirs of John Williams Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Waterman, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 56
1784
[Name] Ochos Rios  
[Crop] Cotton, pimento and livestock  
 

The property of the heirs of John Williams Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Waterman, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 119
1786
[Name] Ocho Rios Plantation  
[Crop] cattle, rum?  
 

Property of John Williams Esq; account filed by William Waterman, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 87
1787
[Name] Ocho Rios Plantation  
[Crop] enslaved hire, cattle  
 

Property of the heirs of John Williams Esq deceased; account filed by Robert Brown, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 113
1787
[Name] Ocho Rios  
[Crop] cattle, pimento, hire of enslaved people  
 

The property of the heirs of John Williams Esq deceased; account filed by Robert Brown planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 207
1788
[Name] Ocho Rios Penn  
[Crop] cattle, horses, Cotton, pimento, hire of enslaved people  
 

The property of the heirs of John Williams Esquire deceased. Account filed by Robert Brown as overseer

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 375-376 f.207
1789
[Name] Ocho Rios Pen  
[Crop] cattle, pimento  
 

The property of the heirs of John Williams Esquire deceased. Account filed by Samuel West as overseer. Accounts filed for 17/08/1789 to 30/09/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 186-187 [f.95]
1789
[Name] Ocho Rios Pen  
[Crop] Horses, mules, cattle, timber, hire of enslaved people  
 

The property of the heirs of John Williams Esquire deceased. Account filed by Robert Brown as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01/1789 to 26/08/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 189-190 [f.96]
1789
[Name] Ocho Rios Pen  
[Crop] Horses, cattle, labour hire  
 

The property of Thomas Williams, Jack Russell William and James Williams. Account filed by Samuel West as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/10/1789 to 31/12/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 190
1791
[Name] pimento Walk  
[Crop] Mules, some cattle, pimento, hire of enslaved people, corn  
 

Account filed by William Waterman as overseer. John Russell Williams' Penn and pimento Walk filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 178-179 [f.84]
1792
[Name] Ocho Rios Penn  
[Crop] hire of enslaved people, cotton, a few cattle  
 

The property of John Russell Williams. Account filed by William Waterman as overseer

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 43