Georgia 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
1771 [EA] - 1778 [LA] → Previous owner
1779 [EA] - 1779 [LA] → Other

John Grant bought the Georgia estate for £26,000 currency in 1779 and told Charles Gordon of Buthlaw that it 'will become yours or mine at your option.' Charles Gordon must have exercised this option.

1779 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Owner
1796 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Previous owner
1815 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£5,296 18S 10D

Estate Information (53)

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1771
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock and coffee  
 

Part of the real estate of George Richards late of the parish of Kingston Esq. deceased. Account filed by Patrick McGibbon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 186
1772
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Part of the real estate of George Richards late of the parish of Kingston Esq. deceased. Account filed by Patrick McGibbon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 234
1772
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Part of the real estate of George Richards late of the parish of Kingston Esq. deceased. Account filed by Patrick McGibbon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 26
1773
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Part of the real estate of George Richards late of the parish of Kingston Esq. deceased. Account filed by Patrick McGibbon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 200
1775
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Part of the real estate of George Richards late of the parish of Kingston Esq. deceased. Account filed by Patrick McGibbon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 281
1776
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Part of the real estate of George Richards late of the parish of Kingston Esq. deceased. Account filed by Patrick McGibbon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 64-5
1778
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Part of the real estate of George Richards Esq. Account filed by Patrick McGibbon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 52-3
1779
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Gordon Esq. Account filed by David Allan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 136
1779
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Charles Gordon Esq. Account filed by Patrick McGibbbon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 136-7
1779
[Name] Georgia  
 

Indenture and Release of Dower: Richard Cargill, parish of St. Thomas in the East in county of Surrey in island of Jamaica, John and Thomas Cargill, both of Kingston, County of Surr[e]y, merchants, and John McDonald, Clarendon, county of Middlesex, administrators of goods, of Jane Richards, Kingston, widow of deceased George Richards, of the one part, and John Grant, St. Catherine, county of Middlesex. Involves settlement of claims on estate of Georgia, Jamaica. Enrolled in Office of Enrolments 9 April 1781, Liber 303 Folio 32. Memorandum of 1 June 1779 on verso of one sheet certifies signature by Cargills and John McDonald (now much perished and partly in fragments and incomplete).

 
GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections Gordons of Buthlaw and Cairness: Estate and Family papers MS 1160/6/6
1780
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Charles Gordon Esq. Account filed by David Allan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 219
1781
[Name] Georgia Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownerhip details. Account filed by David Allan, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 124
1782
[Name] Georgia Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by George Peters, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 212
1783
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by George Peters, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 157
1784
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by George Peters, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 168
1786
[Name] Georgia Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood, cattle  
 

Account filed by George Peters, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 162
1786
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by George Peters planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 156
1787
[Name] Georgia Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by George Peters planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 218-219
1788
[Name] Georgia Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by George Peters planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 234
1789
[Name] Georgia Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lewis Grant planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 308-309 f.153
1790
[Name] Georgia Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Lewis Grant planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 282
1791
[Name] Georgia Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lewis Grant planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 304
1792
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Brodie and signed by Ja.s B. Rose (James Brodie's signature deleted).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 106
1793
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Johnstone planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 353-354 [f.177]
1794
[Name] Georgia Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, rents, old copper  
 

Property of Charles Gordon Esq. Account filed by John Johnston as overseer for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 205-206
1795
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper  
 

Belonging to Charles Gordon, Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by David Lamont, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 48
1796
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, rent  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Charles Gordon Esq, deceased. Account filed by David Lamont, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 73
1797
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, rent, steers.  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Charles Gordon Esq, deceased. Account filed by David Lamont, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 134
1798
[Name] Georgia  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, hire of enslaved people, cane plants, old brass and iron  
 

Property of the heirs of Charles Gordon Esq deceased. Account filed by James Watson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 95
1799
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of the heirs of Charles Gordon Esq deceased. Account filed by James Watson planter for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 219-220
1799
[Name] Georgia  
[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.
1800
[Name] Georgia Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Charles Gordon Esq deceased. Account filed by James Watson as planter. Accounts filed for 1799-1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 15-16
1803
[Name] Georgia Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Charles Gordon, Esq, deceased. Under the management of Thomas Munro and John Baillie, Esqs. Account filed by James Watson, planter and overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 58
1804
[Name] Georgia Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Charles Gordon, Esq, deceased. Account given in the names of Thomas Munro and John Baillie, Esqs.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 119
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 187  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 252(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 203  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 254(Tot) 132(F) 122(M)  
[Name] Georgia Estate  
 

In the possession of Patrick Waugh and William Dobie as Attornies of Thomas Gordon Esquire the Owner.

 
T71/229 2589-2598
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 235  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia Estate  
 

In the possession of Patrick Waugh as Attorney of Thomas Gordon Esquire.

 
T71/231 [unpaginated]
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 246(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 241  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 312(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 242  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
 

In the possession of Patrick Waugh as attorney to Thomas Gordon Esquire the Owner.

 
T71/233 [Unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 247(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 213  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 251(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 203  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia Estate  
 

In the possession of Patrick Waugh as Attorney to Thomas Gordon Esquire.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 253(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 172  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
 

In the possession of Patrick Waugh as Attorney to Thomas Gordon Esquire.

 
T71/237 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 262(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 175  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Georgia  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to Thomas Gordon.

 
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
[Name] Georgia Estate  
 

In the possession of Patrick Waugh as Attorney of Thomas Gordon.

 
T71/242 324