Bunkers Hill

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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
1787 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Owner
1787 [EA] - → Overseer
1788 [EA] - → Overseer
1795 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Overseer
1796 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner

Tentative

1804 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Owner
1804 [EA] - → Overseer
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Joint owner

Owner of a group of some three dozen people attached to Bunkers Hill, an estate which belonged to her nephew George Reid jun., until her death before 1832.

1828 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession

Sir Charles Oakeley had died in 1826: his trustees carried forward the contestation over Bunkers Hill and were registered as mortgagees-in-possession 1829-1832.

1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner

Shown as deceased in 1832.


Associated Claims (2)

£754 4S 3D
£2,793 18S 4D

Estate Information (37)

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1787
[Name] Bunkers Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Thomas Reid Esq; account filed by John Rider as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 57
1788
[Name] Bunker's Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock  
 

Account filed by Alexander Campbell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 325-326
1795
[Name] Bunkerhill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, gunpowder and arms  
 

Account filed by Robert Aitkin for the period 31/12/1794 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 192-193
1796
[Name] Bunkers Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steer  
 

Belonging to George Reed, Esq. Account filed by Robert Aitkin, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Bunkers Hill Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to George Reed, Esq. Account filed by Robert Aitkin, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 193
1798
[Name] Bunkers Hill  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by Robert Atkin as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 137
1799
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawny as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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.
1799
[Name] Bunkers Hill plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Aitkin overseer. The property of George Reid Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 144-145
1800
[Name] Bunkers Hill  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of George Reid Esq. Account filed by Samuel Thompson as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 148
1801
[Name] Bunkers Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Samuel Thompson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 186
1804
[Name] Bunkers Hill Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum. Fat cattle  
 

Belonging to George Reid Junior, Esq, of Great Britain. Account filed in the name of William Pratt, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 153
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)  
[Name] Bunkers Hill  
[Stock] 180  
 

Registered to George Reid junior.

 
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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Stock] 171  
 

Registered to George Reid junior.

 
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] 139(Tot) 81(F) 58(M)  
[Name] Bunkers Hill Estate  
 

In the possession of Ewen Cameron as Attorney to George Reid Junior Owner of Bunkers Hill Estate.

 
T71/224 239-244
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot) 16(F) 16(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Ewen Cameron as Attorney to the Leasee and owned by Miss Mary Reid an absentee and unrepresented.

 
T71/224 227-228
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Stock] 145  
 

Registered to George Reid junior.

 
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] 224(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Stock] 34  
 

Registered to George Reid junior.

 
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] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Bunkers Hill Estate  
 

In the possession of Ewen Cameron as Attorney of George Reid Junior Owner of Bunkers hill Estate. 53 acquired by purchase.

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Ewen Cameron as Attorney to the Lesee Owned by Miss Mary Reid an Absentee and unrepresented.

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Stock] 153  
 

Registered to George Reid junior.

 
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] 241(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Stock] 191  
 

Registered to George Reid junior.

 
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] 34(Tot)  
[Name] Bunkers Hill Estate  
 

In the possession of Ewen Cameron as Attorney for George Reid the leasee, owned by Miss Mary Reid.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Bunkers Hill estate  
 

In the possession of Ewen Cameron as Attorney for George Reid. 25 enslaved people "bought of Catherine Wyatt".

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Stock] 156  
 

Registered to George Reid.

 
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] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Stock] 154  
 

Registered to George Reid.

 
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] 36(Tot) 18(F) 18(M)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
 

In the possession of George Reid as Lessee owned by Mary Reid & employed on Bunker's Hill.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
 

In the possession of George Reid as Owner.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Stock] 156  
 

Registered to George Reid.

 
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] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Stock] 136?  
 

Registered to estate of George Reid.

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

In the possession of James MacLachlan as Attorney of the Trustees of Sir Charles Oakely Bart mortgagees in possession.

 
T71/239 [unpaginated]
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)  
[Name] Bunkers Hill Estate  
 

In the possession of James McLachlan as Attorney of Bunkers Hill Estate but at present in dispute. Registered by Ewen Cameron Esquire as Attorney of Bunkers Hill estate in 1826.

 
T71/239 [unpaginated]
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot) 17(F) 20(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Reeves as Attorney of Miss Mary Reid the owner.

 
T71/240 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
 

Registered to George Reid. Page faded, number of stock 56?

 
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] 232(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Stock] 152  
 

Registered to estate of George Reid.

 
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] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Bunker's Hill  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to estate of George Reid.

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

In the possession of James Maclachlan as attorney to the Trustees of the late Sir C. Oakley mortgagees in possession.

 
T71/242 115
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot)  
[Name] Bunkers Hill Estate  
 

In the possession of William Reeves as Attorney to the Heirs of Mary Reid deceased.

 
T71/242 215