Leicesterfields

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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
1744 [SY] - → Owner
- 1744 [EY] → Owner
1741 [EA] - 1741 [LA] → Joint owner
1741 [EA] - 1741 [LA] → Joint owner
1796 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Owner
1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
1816 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1820 [EA] - → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Previous owner
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner

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£6,189 13S 10D

Estate Information (28)

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1741
[Name] Licester Fields  
[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] Leicesterfields Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Hayle Shickle Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson, overseer. Savoy and Leicesterfields Estate filed together.

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

Belonging to John Hayle Shickle, Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson, status not given. Savoy and Leicesterfields Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 167
1798
[Name] Leicester Fields  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Thomson. The property of John Hayle Shuckle Esquire Savoy and Leicester Fields recorded together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 57
1798
[Name] Leicester Fields  
[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.
1799
[Name] Leicesterfields Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of John Hayle Shickle Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson for the period 01/01/1799 to 31/12/1799. Savoy and Liecesterfields estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 151
1800
[Name] Leicesterfields Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of John Hayle Shickle Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson for the period 01/01/1800 to 31/12/1800. Savoy and Liecesterfields estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 92-93
1801
[Name] Leicester Fields Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Estates of John Hayles Shickle Esq. Account filed by Thomas Grant as overseer. Savoy and Leicester Fields filed together, both sugar and rum.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 58
1804
[Name] Leicesterfields Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Hayle Shickle, Esq. Account given in the name of James Mitchell, Esq, attorney for said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 162
1807
[Name] Leicesterfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Estate produce disposed of by order of James Mitchell Esq. as attorney for the estate and under his management. Account filed by Arthur Murray as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 89
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Leicester-Fields  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to Rutherfor & Wagstaffe, 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] 166(Tot) 90(F) 76(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Donald McLean as attorney to Messrs Rutherford & Wagstaffe.

 
T71/57 124-129
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Leicester Fields  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to Rutherford & Wagstaffe, attorneys.

 
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.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Leicesterfield  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to Donald McLean.

 
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] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Leicester Fields  
[Stock] 48  
 

Registered to Donald McLean.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot) 92(F) 79(M)  
[Name] Leicesterfields Estate  
 

In the possession of Donald McLean as owner. Purchased. Given in last return in Clarendon by Donald McLean as attorney to Messrs. Rutherford and Wagstaffe.

 
T71/58 247-251
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Leicester Fields  
[Stock] 87  
 

Registered to Donald McLean.

 
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] 269(Tot)  
[Name] Leicester Fields  
[Stock] 46  
 

Registered to Donald McLean 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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot) 142(F) 133(M)  
[Name] Leicesterfields  
 

In the possession of Donald McLean as owner. An increase of 129, most transferred from Mocho plantation and Shickles pen.

 
T71/59 368-371
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Leicesterfield  
[Stock] 17  
 

Registered to Donald McLean.

 
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] 260(Tot) 135(F) 125(M)  
[Name] Leicesterfield  
 

In the possession of Samuel Smith and Francis Smith as trustees under the will of Donald McLean deceased.

 
T71/60 350
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 259(Tot)  
[Name] Leicesterfield  
[Stock] 17  
 

Registered to Donald McLean 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] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Leicesterfield  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to Donald McLean 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] 246(Tot) 129(F) 117(M)  
[Name] Leicesterfield  
 

In the possession of Samuel Smith and Francis Smith as trustees under the will of Donald McLean deceased.

 
T71/62 322
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot)  
[Name] Leicesterfield  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to Donald McLean 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] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Leicesterfield  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to Donald McLean 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] 323(Tot) 168(F) 155(M)  
[Name] Leicesterfield  
 

In the possession of William W. Fearon as agent to Messrs William, Rowland and Samuel Mitchell & Co. Previously registered by Samuel and Francis Smith as executors and trustees under the will of the late D. McLean since when the Reversion has fallen to Messrs. W. R. and S. Mitchell & Co. A portion of these have been transferred from Mocha Gang since 1829.

 
T71/64 275
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 518(Tot)  
[Name] Leicesterfield  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to W. R. & S. Mitchell & Co.

 
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.