Unity

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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
1801 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Attorney
1807 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Attorney
1807 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Not known

Registered by Edmund Francis Green as attorney for William Mitchell executor and trustee of John Morse. Morse appears to have been the co-owner by assignment since 1777: 1777, Feb. 5. Ind. between John Serocold & John Jackson of London, merchants & co-partners, of the one part, & John Morse & Thomas Smith of London, merchants & co-partners, of the other part. Whereas by Ind. of mortgage made 10 April 1775, between Wm. Stevenson of St. James, J., & Mary his wife, & John Serocold & John Jackson, Wm. S. sold to the latter all that sugar plantation in the parish of St. James called Unity, containing 943 acres, & Pleasant Penn of 300 acres, subject to redemption for £24,023 & £21,034 is still due. Assignment now to John Morse & Thomas Smith. (Caribbeana III).

1809 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Not known
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
1821 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

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£2,966 1S 0D

Estate Information (37)

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1787
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Peter McAdam.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 157 f.79
1788
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Peter McAdam as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 359 f.189
1789
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Peter McAdam as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 377-378
1790
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Peter McAdam as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 55-56
1791
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas McKissock as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 343 [f.166]
1792
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas McKissock as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 243-244
1793
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the care and management of the Hon William Mitchell Esq. Account filed by Thomas McKissock as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 51
1794
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Nash as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 52-53
1795
[Name] Unity  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Robert Hindmarsh as book keeper for the year ending 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 263-264
1796
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account given by the Hon George Murray and James Mitchell, Esqs, receivers. Account filed by Robert Henderson?,overseer, late book keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1799
[Name] Unity Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Alexander Lockhart Finlayson . . . planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 220-221
1799
[Name] Unity  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Trelawny as a sugar estate with a watermill 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] Unity Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Alexander Finlayson [?] as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 143
1801
[Name] Unity Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Alexander Lockhart Finlayson as overseer Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 138
1803
[Name] Unity Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, rents  
 

Account filed by Bryce [?] J Black as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 167-168
1807
[Name] Unity  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the care of Edmund Francis Green as attorney for William Mitchell Esq. executor and trustee of John Morse Esq. deceased. Account filed by Edmund Francis Green. Filed for 1st July 1806-1st July 1807.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 53
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to Edmund Green.

 
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] 219(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 43  
 

Registered to Edmund Green.

 
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] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
 

Registered to Edmund Green. Number of stock illegible.

 
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] 210(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to Edmund Francis Green.

 
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] 202(Tot) 105(F) 97(M)  
[Name] Unity Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Farquharson as Attorney to Edmund Francis Green joint owner with others.

 
T71/225 813-822
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 154  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

 
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] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

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

In the possession of Robert Green as attorney to E. F. Green. Registered 1817 by Charles Farquharson as attorney to E. F. Green and other owners.

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 153  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

 
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] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 127  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

 
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] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
 

In the possession of William Rhodes Quarell as Agent to Robert Green.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 169  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

 
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] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 147  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

 
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] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Unity Estate  
 

In the possession of John Irving as Attorney to Edmund Francis Green Esquire. Registered in 1823 by William Rhodes Grizzelll as agent to Robert Green.

 
T71/234 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

 
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] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 149  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

 
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] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Unity Estate  
 

In the possession of John Irving as Attorney to Edmund Francis Green Esquire.

 
T71/237 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

 
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] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 153  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

 
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] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 20  
 

Registered to Edmund F. Green.

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

In the possession of John Irving as Attorney to Edmund Francis Green Esquire.

 
T71/241 311