Hampstead

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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
- 1835 [LA] → Owner
- 1804 [LA] → Previous owner
- 1815 [EY] → Owner

Administration of Robert McGhie's will was granted in 1817 but he appears to have died in 1815.

1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner

Associated Claims (1)

£3,881 1S 7D

Notes

Higman puts two estates together - Hampstead and Retreat. They were both located in the upper Martha Brae River and were owned by John H. Deffell at emancipation. Hampstead had a cattle mill and Retreat had a water mill.


Sources

B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), pp.139


Estate Information (27)

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1786
[Name] Hampstead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Young.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 100
1787
[Name] Hampstead Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Young, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 128
1787
[Name] Hampstead  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Young planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 86-87 f.44
1788
[Name] Hampstead  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Young planter. Accounts filed for 1788 [exact dates unclear].

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 167-168 f.84
1789
[Name] Hampstead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by John Young planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 175-176 [f.89]
1790
[Name] Hampstead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Andrew Clark planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 277-278 [f.133]
1791
[Name] Hampstead Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Norris.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 421 [f.200]
1799
[Name] Hampstead  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawny as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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.
1804
[Name] Hamstead Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Samuel Vaughan, Esq, deceased. Account given in the name of David Bernard, Esq, attorney to William Vaughan, Esq, only acting attorney to said estate.From June in the hands of Ralph Montague, Esq, attorney to said estate. Account filed by Walter Patrick, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 172
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead  
[Stock] 191  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.

 
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] 259(Tot) 111(F) 128(M)  
[Name] Hampstead Estate  
 

In the possession of William Fairclough as Receiver.

 
T71/225 751-762
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead  
[Stock] 204  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.

 
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] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.

 
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] 247(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert H Scott as Receiver. Enrolled 28th June 1817 as in possession of William Fairclough Esquire the then Receiver.

 
T71/231 [unpaginated]
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead  
[Stock] 210  
 

Registered to James McDonald.

 
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] 224(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead  
[Stock] 223  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.

 
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] 220(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert H Scott as Receiver in Chancery.

 
T71/233 [Unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead  
[Stock] 226  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.

 
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] 215(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead  
[Stock] 232  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.

 
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] 215(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead Estate  
 

In the possession of Robert Haldane Scott as Receiver appointed by the Honorable Court of Chancery.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie. Page faded, number of stock 99?

 
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] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead  
[Stock] 236  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.

 
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] 219(Tot) 108(F) 111(M)  
[Name] Hampstead Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr and James MacDonald, as Receivers for Hampstead Estate.

 
T71/239 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.

 
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] 213(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead  
[Stock] 201  
 

Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.

 
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] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Hampstead Estate  
 

In the possession of William S. Grignon and James McDonald as attornies for Hampstead Estate.

 
T71/242 152
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Registered to John H. Deffell.

 
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.