Bounty Hall

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Associated People (5)

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
- 1785 [EY] → Owner
1825 [SY] - 1832 [LA] → Annuitant
1785 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Tenant-for-life

Her status appears to have been somewhat uncertain: in her own will, she left Bounty Hall to her son but also commented that she had received varying payments from him over the years since her husband died in 1785, representing dower.

1785 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Heir
1794 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Shown as owner from 1794, though paying his mother dower from the estate.


Associated Claims (1)

£2,422 17S 4D

Notes

'Elizabeth Sumpson, by her will, dated in April 1822, devised and bequeathed, a certain plantation, called Bounty Hall, and the negroes, sugar works, and appurtenances situated in Jamaica, and all other her estates and effects in Jamaica, England, or elsewhere, to the defendant J. Simpson and others, as trustees, upon trust, as to certain specific chattels, as therein mentioned, and out of the residue to pay and discharge her funeral and testamentary expenses and debts, and out of the surplus of the said eprsonal estate, and the rents and profits of the real estate, or by sale or mortgage of the same, to raise and pay a certain annuity to her daughter, Margery Tulloch, and subject to such trusts to stand possessed of the said estate and effects, in trust for the defendant J. Simpson for life, with remainder to her grand-children therein named, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns...' [The Law Journal Reports for the Year 1840... Vol. 18 p. 145.]


Estate Information (40)

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1786
[Name] Bounty Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of the late John Simpson; account filed by Henry Hough, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 85-86
1786
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of John Simpson Esq deceased; account filed by Henry Hough as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 179
1788
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of John Simpson deceased. Account filed by Charles Lewis as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 383 f.211
1789
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Simpson deceased. Account filed by Charles Lewis as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 388
1793
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Davidson planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 413-415
1794
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Jn Simpson Esq. Account filed by Simon Graham planter for the year ending 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 156
1795
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of John Simpson Esq. Account filed by Simon Graham planter for the year ending 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 260-261
1796
[Name] Bounty Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to John Simpson, Esq. Account filed by Edward Layton, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Layton as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 55-56
1798
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of John Simpson Esq. Account filed by Robert Dixon as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 139
1799
[Name] Bounty Hall plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by John Slack overseer. The property of John Simpson Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 152-153
1799
[Name] Bounty-Hall  
[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.
1800
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Crop] cattle, sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Simpson Esq. Account filed by John Slack as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 147
1801
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by John Flack (?) as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 187
1803
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people, rents  
 

Property of John Simpson Esq. Account filed by John Slack as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 61
1804
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, old fat steers  
 

Belonging to John Simpson, Esq. Account filed in the name of John Slack, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 93
1807
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, hire of enslaved people and house rental  
 

Belonging to John Simpson. Account filed by Joshua Dixon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 124-125
1808
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Simpson. Account filed by Joshua Dixon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 194
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 597(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall and Tileston  
[Stock] 377  
 

Registered to John Simpson.

 
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] 585(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall etc.  
[Stock] 65  
 

Registered to Simpson John. Assumed to be Bounty Hall and Tileston.

 
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] 400(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty-Hall  
 

Registered to John Simpson. Page torn, no number of stock.

 
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] 404(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Stock] 272  
 

Registered to John Simpson.

 
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] 105(Tot) 53(F) 52(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Roger Dobson and owned by Mrs Elizabeth Simpson an Absentee.

 
T71/225 463-466
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 425(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Stock] 270  
 

Registered to John Simpson.

 
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] 423(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Stock] 32  
 

Registered to John Simpson.

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

Roger Dobson & owned by Elizabeth Simpson an absentee.

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 424(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Stock] 256  
 

Registered to John Simpson.

 
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] 428(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Stock] 228  
 

Registered to John Simpson.

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

Roger Dobson and owned by Elizabeth Simpson an Absentee.

 
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 441(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Stock] 183  
 

Registered to John Simpson.

 
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] 433(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Stock] 210  
 

Registered to John Simpson. Number of enslaved people unclear - 433?

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

Samuel Hilton owned by Elizabeth Simpson an Absentee.

 
T71/234 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 441(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Stock] 182  
 

Registered to John Simpson.

 
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] 151(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to heirs of Eliza Simpson.

 
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] 20(Tot) 7(F) 13(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Reeves and owned by Francis Tulloch in right of his wife Margery.

 
T71/240 [unpaginated]
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot) 64(F) 66(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Reeves and owned by the heirs of Elizabeth Simpson deceased.

 
T71/240 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 443(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to heirs of Eliza Simpson.

 
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] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
[Stock] 65  
 

Registered to heirs of Elizabeth Simpson.

 
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] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall  
 

Registered to heirs of Elizabeth Simpson.

 
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] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Bounty Hall Estate  
 

In the possession of William Reeves as Attorney to the Heirs of Mrs Elizabeth Simpson. Decrease of 9 enslaved people by manumission.

 
T71/242 206