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Jamaica | Portland

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Not known
Francis Whittle
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Not known
John Campbell
1815 [EA] - → Not known
George Harrison Cosens
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
Benjamin Crossley
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
William Dormer of Portland
1823 [EA] - → Other
Samuel Thomas Orgill

Purchaser of enslaved people from this estate.

1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
William Dormer of Portland
1826 [EA] - → Other
Hon William Anderson Orgill

Purchaser of enslaved people from this estate.

Notes

The enslaved people on this estate were moved to Newinton and Stanton Harcourt by 1823.

Estate Information (11)

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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to Campbell & Whittle.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Portld.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] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to Campbell & Whittle.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 42  
 

Registered to George H. Cosens.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot) 25(F) 15(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Crossley Esq as owner but who has since then departed hence and is now absent from this island and which slaves are in the possession of Samuel Pryce and Philip Jaquet Esquires as the Attornies of the said Benjamin Crossley.

 
T71/151 204
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 54  
 

Registered to Benjamin Crossley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 71  
 

Registered to Benjamin Crossley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot)  
[Name] Industry Plantation  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Crossley as owner.

 
T71/152 175
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 57(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 63  
 

Registered to Benjamin Crossley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Dormer as owner. Assumed to be Content and Industry.

 
T71/153 42-43
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to William Dormer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
 

Registered to the heirs of William Dormer.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.