Fairfield Estate

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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
- 1756 [EY] → Owner
1830 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1830 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1769 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Joint owner
1774 [EA] - → Joint owner
1788 [EA] - 1830 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Other
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1830 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1834 [EA] - → Joint owner

Associated Claims (2)

£3,499 15S 4D
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Estate Information (61)

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1757
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Estate of James Lawrence deceased. Account filed by William Barnes.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 48
1758
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

No ownership details Account filed by William Barnes.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 74
1759
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by William Barnes.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 158
1760
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by William Barnes.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 158
1761
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by William Barnes.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 198
1762
[Name] Fairfield (new and old works)  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Christopher Snowden.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 43
1763
[Name] Fairfield plantations  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heris of the late James Lawrence.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 43
1764
[Name] Fairfield plantations  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heris of the late James Lawrence.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 77
1765
[Name] Fairfield plantations  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heris of the late James Lawrence. Accoutn filed by Christopher Snowden as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 139
1766
[Name] Fairfield plantations  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late James Lawrence. Account filed by Christopher Snowden as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 47
1767
[Name] Fairfield plantations  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late James Lawrence. Account filed by Christopher Snowden as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 49
1769
[Name] Fairfield plantations  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late James Lawrence. Account filed by Christopher Snowden as overseer. Under the care and direction of Charles Bernard, George Whitehorne Lawrence and William Anglin Esqs. As attorneys to Richard James Lawrence Esq. and Mrs. Mary Hardiman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 202
1770
[Name] Fairfield plantations  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late James Lawrence. Account filed by Christopher Snowden as overseer. Under the care and direction of Charles Bernard, George Whitehorne Lawrence and William Anglin Esqs. as attorneys to Richard James Lawrence Esq. and Mrs. Mary Hardiman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 227
1771
[Name] Fairfield plantations  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late James Lawrence. Account filed by Christopher Snowden as overseer. Under the care and direction of Charles Bernard, George Whitehorne Lawrence and William Anglin Esqs. as attorneys to Richard James Lawrence Esq. and Mrs. Mary Hardiman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 8
1772
[Name] Fairfield plantations  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late James Lawrence. Account filed by Christopher Snowden as overseer. Under the care and direction of Charles Bernard, George Whitehorne Lawrence and William Anglin Esqs. as attorneys to Richard James Lawrence Esq. and Mrs. Mary Hardiman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 82
1773
[Name] Fairfield plantations  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late James Lawrence. Account filed by Christopher Snowden as overseer. Under the care and direction of Charles Bernard, George Whitehorne Lawrence and William Anglin Esqs. as attorneys to Richard James Lawrence Esq. and Mrs. Mary Hardiman.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 83
1774
[Name] Fairfield plantations  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence and James Lawrence Esqs. Account filed by William Harries as overseer. Under the care and direction of Charles Bernard.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 245
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 422(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield & Chateau Maria  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 210  
 

Listed as belonging to James & Richard James Lawrence with 11 men bearing arms and 5 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 440 hogsheads of sugar. Chateau Maria has not been identified.

 
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
1777
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by Walsingham Beasley, clerk.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 135-136
1778
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by Walsingham Beasley, clerk.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 136-137
1788
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence, Es1. Account given by Thomas Reid Jnr Esq, attorney. Account filed by George McLenan, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 92
1788
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence. Account given by Thomas Reid, Jnr. Account filed by George McLenan, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1789
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence, Es1. Account given by Thomas Reid Jnr Esq, attorney. Account filed by George McLenan, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 94
1789
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence. Account given by Thomas Reid, Jnr. Account filed by George McLenan, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1790
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence. Account given by Thomas Reid, Jnr. Account filed by George McLenan, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1791
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence. Account given by Thomas Reid, Jnr. Account filed by George McLenan, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1792
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence, Es1. Account given by Thomas Reid Jnr Esq, attorney. Account filed by James Stewart, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 93
1792
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence. Account given by Thomas Reid, Jnr. Account filed by James Stewart, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1793
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence. Account given by Thomas Reid, Jnr. Account filed by George McLenan, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1794
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence. Account given by Thomas Reid, Jnr. Account filed by George McLenan, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1795
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence. Account given by Thomas Reid, Jnr. Account filed by James Stewart, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1795
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence. Account given by Thomas Reid, Jnr. Account filed by James Howard, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1796
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence. Account given by Thomas Reid, Jnr. Account filed by James Stewart, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Richard James Lawrence. Account given by Thomas Reid, Jnr. Account filed by James Caldwell, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1798
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Rich.d James Lawrence Esq, disposed of by Thomas Reid Jun.r Esq. Account filed by James Stewart as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 145
1799
[Name] Fairfield  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a watermill 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.
1802
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Richard James Lawrence Esq disposed of by George Lawrence Esq his attorney. Account filed by John Marsden Bayley as overseer for the period 01/05/1802 to 23/07/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 132-133
1803
[Name] Fairfield Plantation  
[Crop] coffee  
 

Account filed by Alexander Montagnac as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 146
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 44  
 

Registered to R. James Lawrence.

 
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] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to Richard J. Lawrence.

 
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] 220(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 171  
 

Registered to Richard Lawrence.

 
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] 216(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 172  
 

Registered to Richard James Lawrence.

 
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] 172(Tot) 97(F) 75(M)  
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Gordon Gray as attorney to Richard James Lawrence.

 
T71/203 34-38
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 181  
 

Registered to Richard James Lawrence.

 
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] 208(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 181  
 

Registered to Richard Lawrence.

 
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] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Gordon Gray as Attorney to Richard Jas Lawrence, the owner of Fairfield Estate. Purchased 28/09/1817 by Charles Gordon Gray as attorney to George and Sarah Lawrence, the owners, in St James.

 
T71/206 216-219
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 177  
 

Registered to Richard Lawrence.

 
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] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 170  
 

Registered to Richard I. Lawrence.

 
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] 201(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
 

In the possession of Walter Murray as Attorney to Richard James Lawrence, the owner and as settled on Fairfield Estate.

 
T71/210 95-96
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to Richard J. Lawrence.

 
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] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 151  
 

Registered to Richard James Lawrence.

 
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] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles O'Connor and George Gordon as Attornies to Richard James Lawrence.

 
T71/214 295-296
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 28  
 

Registered to Richard James Lawrence.

 
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] 201(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to Richard James Lawrence.

 
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] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles O'Connor and George Gordon as Attornies to Richard James Lawrence.

 
T71/219 unpaginated
1830
[Name] Fairfield  
 

Bequeathed by Richard James Lawrence to his five sons. His will was written in 1800 but proved in 1830. Of one son, Henry, no trace has been found.

 
PROB 11/1778/111
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 41  
 

Registered to Richard James Lawrence.

 
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] 196(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 149  
 

Registered to Richard James Lawrence.

 
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] 191(Tot) 101(F) 90(M)  
[Name] Fairfield Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles O'Connor as Attorney to the Heirs of Richard James Lawrence decd; increase owing to 14 births and acquisition of 200 enslaved people by Devise under the Will of Richard James Lawrence and last returned by Charles O'Connor & George Gordon as attorneys to Richard James Lawrence; decrease in total owing to 23 deaths.

 
T71/223 120
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Fairfield  
[Stock] 49  
 

Registered to Charles Lawrence.

 
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.
1839
[Name] Fairfield  
[Size] 1121  
 

Registered to Charles Lawrence.

 
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.