Trout Hall Estate

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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
1802 [SY] - 29/01/1817 [ED] → Annuitant
1802 [SY] - 29/01/1817 [ED] → Trustee
- 1802 [EY] → Joint owner
- 1802 [EY] → Joint owner
1802 [SY] - 31/12/1812 [ED] → Owner
31/12/1812 [SD] - → Trustee and Executor
31/12/1812 [SD] - → Trustee and Executor
31/12/1812 [SD] - → Trustee and Executor
31/12/1812 [SD] - 16/07/1814 [ED] → Trust beneficiary
1741 [EA] - 1741 [LA] → Joint owner
1741 [EA] - 1741 [LA] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Previous owner
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Joint owner
1826 [EA] - → Agent
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Joint owner

Shown as tenant-for-life in the compensation records

1834 [EA] - → Joint owner

Associated Claims (1)

£4,537 10S 5D

Estate Information (31)

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1741
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Messers Henry Dawkins and Thomas Fearon Junior Esqs. under the care and direction of John Shickle. Account filed by John Shickle. The estates of Trout Hall, Green River and Licester Fields were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 164-165
1796
[Name] Trouthall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to James Chiselholme? Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson.

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

Belonging to James Chisholme, Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 166
1798
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Clarendon 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1798
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Thomson. The property of James Chisholm Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 59-60
1799
[Name] Trout Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of James Chisholme Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson for the period 01/01/1799 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 150
1800
[Name] Trout Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of James Chisholme Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson for the period 01/01/1800 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 86
1802
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

William Chisholme bequeathed his quarter share in Trout Hall to his brother James and charged a £500 annuity for his sister Margaret Scott upon it.

 
PROB 11/1382/360
1803
[Name] Trout Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old cattle, steers, rent of land, rent of a mare  
 

Account given by order of William Anderson, attorney for said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 14
1807
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, payment for transportation of enslaved people, land rental, livestock, beef, logwood and hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by William Anderson as attorney and overseer of the estate. Payment of ?63 for transportation of 1 enslaved man.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 67-68
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 300(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 61  
 

Registered to James Chisholm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Clarend.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] 306(Tot)  
[Name] Front [Trout?] Hall  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to James Chisholm.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cla.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1812
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Chisholme bequeathed his estate in trust for his daughter Mary Agnes Lady Sinclair.

 
PROB 11/1541/10
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)  
[Name] Trout-Hall  
 

Registered to James Chisholme, attorney.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15clar.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)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 164  
 

Registered to James Chisholme, attorney.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 302(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In two parts: In the possession of William Anderson as attorney for the trustees named in the last will of James Chisholm Esquire deceased where they are hired from Charles Lord Sinclair (33 enslaved people); In the possession of William Anderson as attorney for the trustees named in the last will of James Chisholm Esquire deceased (269 people).

 
T71/57 392-394, 450-459
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to James Chisholme.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 301(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall estate  
 

In the possession of Donald McLean as attorney for the trustees named in the will of James Chisholm Esquire deceased, owner of Trout Hall where they are hired to Charles Lord Sinclair (29 enslaved people); In the possession of Donald McLean as attorney to the trustees named in the will of James Chisholm Esquire deceased (272 enslaved people).

 
T81/58 58-60, 100
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 32  
 

Registered to James Chisholme deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 294(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 162  
 

Registered to James Chisholme deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot) 129(F) 138(M)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
 

In two parts. (1) In the possession of Donald McLean as attorney to Charles Nicholas Pallmer Esquire (37 enslaved). (2) In the possession of Donald McLean as attorney to the trustees named in the will of James Chisholm Esquire deceased (230 enslaved).

 
T71/59 113-114, 481
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 292(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 173  
 

Registered to James Chisholme deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 298(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 72  
 

Registered to James Chisholm deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 271(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In two parts: Samuel Smith as agent to the trustees named in the will of Jas Chisholm Esquire deceased owner of Trout Hall where they are hired from Charles Lord Sinclair (30 enslaved); Samuel Smith Esquire as agent to the trustees named under the will of James Chisholm Esquire deceased (241 enslaved).

 
T71/60 68, 103
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 300(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 78  
 

Registered to James Chisholm deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 303(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 59  
 

Registered to James Chisholm deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29clarvere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall Estate  
 

In two parts: In the possession of William Wheeler Fearon as attorney to the trustees named in the will of James Chisholm deceased (241 enslaved); In the possession of Wm H. Fearon as attorney to the trustees in the will of Jas Chisholm deceased owner of Trout Hall where they are hired from Chas. Lord Sinclair (29 enslaved).

 
T71/61 78, 427
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 287(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 39  
 

Registered to James Chisholm deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to James Chisholm deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In two parts: in the possession of William W. Fearon and Colin MacKenzie as attornies to the Honorable James Sinclair (232 enslaved people); in the possession of William W. Fearon and Colin MacKenzie as attornies to Charles Lord Sinclair (29 enslaved people).

 
T71/64 408, 411
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Trout Hall  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to Hon. James Sinclair.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Claren.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.