Glasgow 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
04/01/1805 [SD] - 1837 [LA] → Owner
1785 [EA] - 04/01/1805 [ED] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

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£1,812 6S 5D

Estate Information (43)

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1763
[Name] Glasgow  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Westmoreland in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a cattle mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1781
[Name] Glasgow  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed for 31 July 1780 to 31 July 1781. No ownership details. Account filed by David Dalglish. Glasgow and Chesnock (sp?) filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 96
1785
[Name] Glasgow  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to John Wallace Esq. Account filed by David Connell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 39
1787
[Name] Glasgow Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Wallace Esq; account filed by David Connell. Glasgow and Cessnock Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 92-93
1787
[Name] Glasgow Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, one horse  
 

Account filed by David Connell. Glasgow and Cessnock Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 63
1788
[Name] Glasgow Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Wallace Esquire. Account filed by David Campbell. Glasgow and Chesnock Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 306
1789
[Name] Glasgow Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, old copper  
 

Account filed by David Connell one of the attornies for the estates. Accounts filed for 01/01/1789 to 20/07/1789. Glasgow and Cessnock Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 179 [f.91]
1790
[Name] Glasgow  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Wallace Esquire. Account filed by Jn McFarlane as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 371 [f.185]
1791
[Name] Glasgow Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Wallace Esquire. Account filed by David Connell his attorney. Glasgow Estate and Cheenock Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 438
1792
[Name] Glasgow  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Wallace Esquire. Account filed by David Connell. Accounts filed for 01/01/1792 to 01/08/1792. Glasgow and Cessnock filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 113
1793
[Name] Glasgow Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Wallace Esquire. Account filed by David Connell his attorney. Glasgow Estate and Cheenock Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 310
1794
[Name] Glasgow Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to John Wallace Esq. Account filed by David Connell his attoney. Glasgow and Cessnock estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 147
1797
[Name] Glasgow Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers  
 

Account filed by Robert Morrice, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 123
1798
[Name] Glasgow Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to John Wallace Esq. Account filed by Robert Parkinson Robert Mouie as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 187
1799
[Name] Glasgow  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Westmoreland 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] Glasgow Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by George Murray Esquire . . . attorney to John Wallace Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 186
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Glascow  
 

Registered in Westmoreland in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at a vestry convened for that purpose 15/11/1799 and subsequent days. No ownership details given.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 36.
1800
[Name] Glasgow Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Under the care and direction of George Murray Esq, attorney to John Wallace Esq of the city of Glasgow. Account filed by Robert Morrice as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 56-57
1801
[Name] Glasgow Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Brown Esq as Attorney in this land for John Wallace Esq of Glasgow, North Britain.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 21
1803
[Name] Glasgow  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the care and direction of George Murray Esq as attorney for the proprietor in Great Britain. Account filed by Robert Morice as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 45
1804
[Name] Glasgow Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner not given. Account given in the name of Robert Morice, attorney to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 170
1807
[Name] Glasgow  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Belonging to Robert Wallace Esq. Account filed by Robert Morice attorney and overseer for Robert Wallace Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 145-146
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 210  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Westmd.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 68  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co1.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 208  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 226  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot) 82(F) 76(M)  
[Name] Glasgow Sugar Estate  
 

In the possession of John Finlay as attorney to Robert Wallace the owner.

 
T71/178 179-181
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 230  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 239  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot) 71(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Glasgow Estate  
 

In the possession of John Finlay as attorney to Robert Wallace.

 
T71/179 Book 13 14
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 230  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 227  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot) 58(F) 56(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Blyth Esquire as attorney to Robert Wallace Esquire. Decrease due to deaths.

 
T71/180 Book 2 4 to 5
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 227  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 73  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot) 55(F) 54(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John McCreath as attorney to Robert Wallace.

 
T71/181 69
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 77  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John McCreath as attorney to Robert Wallace Esquire.

 
T71/187 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 180  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 92  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
[Name] Glasgow  
[Stock] 94  
 

Registered to Robert Wallace.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Westmd.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot) 53(F) 41(M)  
[Name] Glasgow Estate  
 

In the possession of John McCreath as attorney to Robert Wallace Esquire.

 
T71/188 348