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Jamaica | St Catherine

Estate Details

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
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
Reverend William Vaughan Hamilton
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
Mrs Eliza Singer (née Hamilton)
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
Mrs Caroline Daun (née Hamilton)
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
Shakespeare Hamilton
1826 [EA] - → Agent
Walter George Stewart

Estate Information (4)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot) 14(F) 6(M)  
 

There were two separate entries for William Vaughan Hamilton in the 1817 slave register. The first documented his ownership of 18 enslaved people and the second his ownership of a further 2 enslaved people.

 
TNA, T71/1, 1817 Slave Register St. Catherine, Jamaica 41 and 850
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Vaughan Hamilton as owner.

 
T71/2 113
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 8(Tot) 7(F) 1(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Vaughan Hamilton as owner. 10 enslaved people settled in trust on my son and daughters by deed. Hamilton to Merton recorded lib. 609 fol. 201. (Next entry gives the children as Shakespear Hamilton, Mrs Singer and Mrs Dawes.)

 
T71/3 280
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot) 11(F) 4(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Walter G. Stewart as attorney and as agent of Mrs Eliza Singer, Mrs Caroline Dawes and Shakespeare Hamilton. Last returned by W. V. Hamilton as natural guardian to Shakespeare Hamilton and his sisters.

 
T71/5 606