Swanswick 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
1776 [SY] - 1824 [EY] → Owner
- 1776 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1824 [EA] - 1835 [EY] → Owner
1826 [EA] - → Attorney

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£4,763 5S 3D

Estate Information (44)

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1772
[Name] Swanswick  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Edward Clarke Esq. Account filed by Rev. Joseph Stoney, rector and attorney for Edward Clarke Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 1
1773
[Name] Swanswick  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Edward Clarke Esq. Account filed by Rev. Joseph Stoney, rector of the parish of St. James and attorney for Edward Clarke Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 81
1774
[Name] Swanswick  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Edward Clarke Esq. Account filed by Joseph Stoney attorney for Edward Clarke Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 265
1775
[Name] Swanswick  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Edward Clarke Esq. Account filed by the Reverend Joseph Stoney attorney for Edward Clarke Esq. Hyde and Swanswick listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 14
1776
[Name] Swanswick  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Edward Clarke Esq. Account filed by the James Bartlett, gentleman, late the overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 64
1777
[Name] Swanswick  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Edward Clarke Esq. Account filed by John Scott, gentleman overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 90
1778
[Name] Swanswick Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of George Hyde Clarke Esquire, now of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by John Scott, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 128
1789
[Name] [no name given]  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Estate of George Hyde Clarke Esquire. Account filed by said George Hyde Clarke.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 196
1790
[Name] Swanwick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estate of George Hyde Clarke Esquire. Account filed by James Gardner as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 354
1791
[Name] Swanswick  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Geo. Hyde Clarke Esquire. Account filed by James Gardner as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/07/1790 to 31/07/1791.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 104
1792
[Name] Swanswick  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of George Hyde Clarke Esquire. Account filed by James Gardiner as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/07/1791 to 01/07/1792.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 399-400
1793
[Name] Swanwick  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of George Hyde Clark Esquire. Account filed by James Gardener as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/07/1792 to 01/07/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 304-305 [f.153]
1794
[Name] Swanswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of George Hyde Clarke Esq. Account filed by James Gardiner as overseer for the period 01/07/1793 to 01/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 164
1795
[Name] Swanswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to George Hoyde Clarke, Esq. Account filed by James Gardiner, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 11
1796
[Name] Swanswick Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to George Hyde Clarke Esq. Account filed by James Gardiner, overseer.

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

Account filed by James Gardiner as overseer for the period 01/12/1797 to 01/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 146
1798
[Name] Swanswich Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by James Gardiner as overseer for the period 01/12/1797 to 01/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 146
1799
[Name] Swanswick  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawny as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and a windmill 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] Swanswick Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by James Gardiner as overseer for the period 01/12/1798 to 01/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 208
1800
[Name] Swanswick Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by James Gardiner as overseer for the period 01/12/1799 to 01/11/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 208
1801
[Name] Swanswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, 3 cattle  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Richard Morgan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 41
1803
[Name] Swanswick Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Richard Morgan as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 30/08/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 4
1807
[Name] Swanswick  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Edward Payne as overseer. Filed for 31st Oct 1806-30th Sept 1807.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 25
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 277(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 233  
 

Registered to George H. Clarke.

 
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] 314(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to George H. Clarke.

 
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] 299(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 237  
 

Registered to George Hyde Clarke.

 
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] 297(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 219  
 

Registered to George H. Clarke.

 
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] 292(Tot) 146(F) 146(M)  
[Name] Swanswick  
 

In the possession of Alexander Mudie as Attorney to George Hyde Clarke, the owner.

 
T71/227 1537-1548
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 302(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 264  
 

Registered to George Hyde Clarke.

 
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] 295(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to George Clarke.

 
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] 289(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
 

In the possession of William Miller as Attorney to George Hyde Clarke Esquire.

 
T71/231 [unpaginated]
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 272  
 

Registered to George H. Clarke.

 
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] 277(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 259  
 

Registered to George H. Clarke.

 
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] 275(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller as attorney to George Hyde Clarke Esquire Proprietor.

 
T71/233 [Unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 242  
 

Registered to heirs of George H. Clarke.

 
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] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 260  
 

Registered to heirs of George H. Clarke.

 
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] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller & Robert H Scott as Attornies to George Clarke Esquire Proprietor.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to heirs of G. H. Clarke.

 
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] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 241  
 

Registered to heirs of G. H. Clarke.

 
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] 267(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller as Attorney to George Clarke Esquire the Proprietor.

 
T81/236 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to heirs of G. H. Clarke.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 251(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 241  
 

Registered to heirs of G. H. Clarke.

 
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] 255(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to heirs of G. H. Clark.

 
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] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Swanswick Estate  
 

In the possession of The Honorable William Miller as attorney to George Clarke Esquire the proprietor.

 
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