Spring Garden 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
- 1790 [EY] → Owner
1798 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner

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£4,612 16S 6D

Estate Information (25)

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1790
 

Estate owned by Herbert Newton Jarrett II but acquired by David Kerr at some point due to his marriage to HNJ's daughter Sarah Newton Jarrett. HNJ died in 1790.

1798
[Name] Spring Garden Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of David Kerr Esq. Account filed by John Marnoch [?] planter for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 153
1799
[Name] Spring Garden  
[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] Spring Garden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, sheep, cattle, lumber, rent  
 

Account filed by Joseph Cameron overseer. The property of David Kerr Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 138-139
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with David Kerr 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.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 67  
 

Registered to David Kerr.

 
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] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 67  
 

Registered to David Kerr.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 111  
 

Registered to David Kerr.

 
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] 223(Tot) 110(F) 113(M)  
[Name] Spring Garden Estate  
 

In the possession of William M. Kerr as attorney to David Kerr.

 
T71/202 13-18
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to David Kerr.

 
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] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 146  
 

Registered to David Kerr.

 
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] 227(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden Estate  
 

In the possession of William M Kerr as Attorney of David Kerr.

 
T71/206 61-62
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to David 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] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 147  
 

Registered to David Kerr.

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

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney to David Kerr.

 
T71/210 39-40
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 152  
 

Registered to David Kerr.

 
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] 246(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 17  
 

Registered to David Kerr.

 
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] 233(Tot) 123(F) 110(M)  
[Name] Spring Garden Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney to David Kerr.

 
T71/214 223-224
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 492(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 92  
 

Registered to David Kerr.

 
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] 259(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 50  
 

Registered to David Kerr.

 
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] 245(Tot) 127(F) 118(M)  
[Name] Spring Garden Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr and Herbert N.J. Kerr as owners. Although previous total given as 233 - "acquired by Demise under a Trust Deed of David Kerr decased" and the last return was made by William Mitchell Kerr as attorney to David Kerr the then owner.

 
T71/218 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 54  
 

Registered to W. M. S. N. King. Number of stock unclear as faded.

 
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] 246(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 205  
 

Registered to William M. Kerr and N. Herbert.

 
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] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to William M. and Herbert N. Kerr.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot) 133(F) 117(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William M Kerr and Herbert N J Kerr as owners.

 
T71/222 378