Spring Estate

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Associated People (10)

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
1809 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Executor
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1818 [EY] → Executor
1826 [EA] - → Receiver
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Agent
1829 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Joint owner
1829 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Joint owner
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Joint owner
1831 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner

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£3,494 8S 6D

Estate Information (21)

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1799
[Name] Spring  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Trelawny 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.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Spring etc.  
[Stock] 119  
 

Registered to Edward Knowles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Trel.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] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Spring etc.  
[Stock] 80  
 

Registered to Edward Knowles.

 
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] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
 

Registered to Edward Knowles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
[Stock] 152  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Knowles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot) 50(F) 72(M)  
[Name] Spring  
 

In the possession of Oswald Brodie and Charles Campbell as Executors of Edward Knowles Esquire deceased.

 
T71/224 149-154
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
[Stock] 185  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Knowles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Knowles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Campbell as Surviving Executor of Edward Knowles Esquire decaesed.

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
[Stock] 180  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Knowles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
[Stock] 150  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Knowles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Campbell as surviving Executor of Edward Knowles Esquire deceased.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Knowles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
[Stock] 127  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Knowles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot) 52(F) 57(M)  
[Name] Spring Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Campbell as Receiver of Spring Estate. Decrease of 6 enslaved people "Improperly registered as belonging to the estate of Edward Knowles, but found to be in trust for his daughter", 2 "claimed by and in possession of Elsey Knowles.

 
T71/234 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Knowles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
[Stock] 136  
 

Registered to heirs of Edward Knowles.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller as Agent for Messieurs W.R & J Mitchell & Co. the Proprietors. Increase of 54 enslaved people "By purchase; registered in 1826 by James MacDonald as Lessee of Peter Warburton in the Parsh of Trelawny".

 
T71/239 [unpaginated]
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
[Stock] 144  
 

Registered to heirs of William Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Spring  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to heirs of William Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Estate  
 

In the possession of The Honorable William Miller as Agent for Messieurs W. R. & J. Mitchell & Co. the Proprietors.

 
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