UCL

urban (Kingston)

Jamaica | Kingston

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Joint owner
William James Stevenson
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Joint owner
Mary Lawrence Stevenson (née James)
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Other
Mrs Mary James

Owner of one of these enslaved people and joint owner of another one.

1832 [EA] - → Previous owner
William James Stevenson

Estate Information (4)

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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot) 10(F) 9(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William James Stephenson Esquire. 14 enslaved people in 1820. 1 male 1 female purchased from and enrolled by Esther Mendes in St Catherine.

 
T71/94 102
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot) 11(F) 10(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William James Stevenson in right of himself and Mary Lawrence his wife as owners; also to one slave as attorney of Mrs Mary James, and one other as attorney of Mrs James and in right of Mrs Stevenson as joint owners, and as to one other as attorney of Captain Thomas Stevenson. 1 male sold.

 
T71/102 206
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 24(Tot) 13(F) 11(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William James Stevenson Esq as owner, as to 1 slaves as the attorney of Mrs Mary James, as to 1 slave as attorney of Mrs James in the right of Mrs Stevenson joint owners.

 
T71/110 171
1832
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Accounting for the total decrease of the several slaves which were in the possession of William James Stevenson Esquire deceased as owner in the last mentioned return in 1829. 3 manumised, others sold or conveyed.

 
T71/117 401