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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:
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1778 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Previous owner
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1778 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Trustee
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1788 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Owner
Robert Dunmore & Co. had been creditors and reportedly bought the estate in 1784 for £17,500. |
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1795 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Owner
Shown, although not consistently as John Fergusson & Co., and probably mortgagees-in-possession. John Fergusson appears as owner for Lennox Castle and Hart Hill, other estates linked also to Robert Dunmore & Co., suggesting this is the same man. |
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1807 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Not known
The estate was registered to the trustees of [the late] William Cunningham between 1807 and 1811. |
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1815 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Joint owner
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1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Previous owner
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1820 [EA] - → Trustee
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1823 [EA] - → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - → Trustee
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1823 [EA] - → Trustee
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1823 [EA] - → Joint owner
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1826 [EA] - → Receiver
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1827 [EA] - 1830 [LA] → Receiver
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1827 [EA] - 1830 [LA] → Receiver
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1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Receiver
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Estate Information (45) |
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1778
[Name] Caledonia
There is a note in this entry "Doctor John Paterson who entered into possession of the estate on the first day of May 1778 by virtue of a deed of trust executed that day by the said executrix Mrs Sarah Findlater." Another comment notes she was the executrix of Alexander Findlater. The account was filed by John McLeod as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 77-8
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1779
[Name] Caledonia
[Crop] sugar and rum There is a note in this entry "Disposed of and are to be accounted for by Doctor John Paterson who entered into possession of the estate on the first day of may 1778 by virtue of a deed of trust executed that day by the said executrix Mrs Sarah Findlater." Account filed by John MacLeod as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 118
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1780
[Name] Caladonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum "desposed of by Doctor John Paterson." Account filed by John McLeod, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 37-38
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1781
[Name] Caledonia Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, timber No Ownership detail given. Account filed by John Mcleod, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 46
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1782
[Name] Caladonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, timber No ownership details. Account filed by John McLeod, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 174
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1783
[Name] Caledonia
[Crop] sugar, rum and lumber There is a note in this entry "Disposed of by Doctor John Paterson." Account filed by William Forbes as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 81
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1787
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Andrew Neilson as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 44
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1788
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Under the direction of John Wedderburn and James Wedderburn Esquires attornies to Messrs Robert Dunmore & Co. Account filed by Andrew Neilson as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 400-401 f.220
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1789
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Andrew Neilson as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 235-236 f.119
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1790
[Name] Caladonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Andrew Neilson as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01/1790 to 04/10/1790.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 341 [f.170]
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1791
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Charles Adam as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 114
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1792
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Under the direction of James Wedderburn Esquire attorney to Messrs Robert Dunmore and Co. Account filed by Charles Adam as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 26
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1793
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Under the direction of James Wedderburn Esquire attorney to Messrs Robert Dunmore and Co. Account filed by Charles Adam as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 325 [f.163]
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1794
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Under the direction of James Wedderburn Esq attorney to Messrs Robert Dunmore and Co. Account filed by John Charles Adam as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 116
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1795
[Name] Caledonian Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Under the direction of James Wedderburn Esq attorney to John Fergusson. Account filed by Charles Adam as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1795.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 71-72
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1796
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people Belonging to John Ferguson & CO. Account given by James Wedderburn Esq, attorney. Account filed by Robert Hunter? Overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Caledonian Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to John Ferguson. Account given by James Wedderburn, attorney. Account filed by Richard Marquhae?, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 211
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1798
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people Under the direction of John Graham Esq attorney to John Fergusson and Co, mortgagees in possession. Account filed by Richard Macquhae as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1798.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 167
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1799
[Name] Caledonia
[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.
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1799
[Name] Caledonian Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people Under the direction of John Graham Esq attorney to John Fergusson and Co. Account filed by Richard Macquhae as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1799.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 154
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1800
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Belonging to Messrs John Ferguson and Co. Account filed by Richard Mach Macquhar as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 123
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1801
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Messrs John Ferguson and Co. Account filed by Thomas Jas/Jos Gray as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 172
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1803
[Name] Caladonia Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Alexander MacDonald as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 20
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1804
[Name] Caledonia Estate
[Crop] Stock, sugar and rum Belonging to Messrs John Ferguson & Co. Account filed in the name of John Boyd, bookkeeper to said estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 223
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1807
[Name] Caledonia
[Crop] sugar, rum and meagre stock In the possession of the trustees of the late William Cunningham deceased. Account filed by Richard Hamilton as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 59
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1808
[Name] Caledonia
[Crop] sugar and rum In the possession of the trustees of the late William Cunningham deceased. Account filed by Richard Hamilton as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 208-209
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1810
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 142 Registered to trustees of William Cunningham.
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.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 98 Registered to (trustees of) William Cunningham.
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.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 170 Registered to Vaughan & Hamilton.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot) 96(F) 75(M)
[Name] Caledonia Sugar Estate In the possession of Honourable Samuel Vaughan and Cheney Hamilton Esquire as owners.
T71/178 430-432
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 149 Registered to Vaughan & Hamilton.
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.
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 184 Registered to Vaughan and Hamilton.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot) 98(F) 76(M)
[Name] Caledonia Estate In the possession of the Honble. S. Vaughan as owner and for the trustees of C. Hamilton deceased.
T71/179 Book 5 3
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 206 Registered to Vaughan and Hamilton.
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.
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 50 Registered to Honorable Samuel Vaughan.
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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] Registered in two groups: "In the possession of the Honble. Samuel Vaughan as owner and Augustus Hamilton and Robert B. Muirhead as trustees to Cheney Hamilton deceased. Decrease by one moity sold to William Vaughan by Samuel Vaughan and registered as belonging to him and Augustus Hamilton & R.B. Muirhead as trustees of Cheney Hamilton deceased" (120 enslaved people). "In the possession of the Honble. Samuel Vaughan as attorney to William Vaughan and Augustus Hamilton and Robert B. Muirhead as trustees to Cheney Hamilton deceased. Increase by one moity purchased by William Vaughan of Samuel Vaughan and registered in decease by him as owner & Aug. Hamilton & R.B. Muirhead as trustees to Cheney Hamilton deceased" (47 enslaved people).
T71/180 Book 10 6 to 8
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 182 Registered to Vaughan and Hamilton.
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.
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 152 Registered to heirs of C. Hamilton.
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.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot) 87(F) 77(M)
[Name] Caledonia Estate Listed in two groups: "In the possession of David McNish as receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery 02/06/1824 in a cause Mitchell William vs. Hamilton & J. Smith vs. same. Previously registered by Samuel Vaughan as owner and Robert B. Muirhead as trustees" (114 enslaved people). "In the possession of David McNish as receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery 02/06/1824 in a cause Mitchell William vs. Hamilton & J. Smith vs. same. Previously registered by Samuel Vaughan as attorney to William Vaughan and A. Hamilton and R.B. Muirhead as trustees to Cheney Hamilton deceased" (50 enslaved people).
T71/181 302-304
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 56 Registered to heirs of Cheney Hamilton.
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.
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 52 Registered to Hugh James, receiver.
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.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 46 Registered to Hugh James, receiver.
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.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot) 83(F) 80(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Townson as receiver appointed in the Cause Mitchell Wm vs Hamilton et al and Smith vs. Same. Registered in two groups: 49 enslaved people and 114 enslaved people.
T71/187 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia [Stock] 52 Registered to Hugh James, receiver.
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.
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)
[Name] Caledonia Pen [Stock] 44 Registered to Francis L. Beckford.
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.
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1805 - ????
Enslaved man brought to England as a domestic servant; his former owner was indicted for the mistreatment of Thompson in 1824.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Caledonia [2] [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/8729 [accessed 8th November 2024].
