Gayle 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
1786 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Trustee
1789 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Trustee
1800 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner

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£5,199 12S 6D

Estate Information (44)

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1784
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Beatty.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 181
1786
[Name] Gayle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 138
1786
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the trustees of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 169
1787
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the trustees for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 184
1788
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the trustees for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 373 f.206
1789
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Ralph Fisher one of the trustees for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 364-365 f.180
1790
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Ralph Fisher one of the trustees for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 392-393 [f. 196]
1791
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies for the proprietors of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 218
1792
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jacques one of the attornies for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 190
1793
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jacques one of the attornies for the plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 427 [f.214]
1794
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jacques, one of the attornies for the plantation, for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 209
1795
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jacques, one of the attornies for the plantation, for the period 31/12/1794 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 246
1796
[Name] Gayle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account given by John Jaques, attorney. Account filed by James Jones.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Gayle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account given and filed by John Jaques, Esq, one of the attornies.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 144
1798
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar rum coffee  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies of Gayle Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 19
1798
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary 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] Gayle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the attornies for Gayle Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 229
1800
[Name] Gayle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Quentin Crawford Esq. Account filed by William Ferrior as overseer for the period 01/01/1800 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 68
1801
[Name] Gayle Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Quinton Crawford Esq. Account filed by George Huxham as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 129
1803
[Name] Gayle Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Quenton Crawford, Esq. Account filed by George Nuxham?, overseer for said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 24
1804
[Name] Gayle Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Quinlan Crawford, Esq. Account given in the name of one of the trustees of said estate. Signed by William Savage - the attorney?.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 160
1807
[Name] Gayle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Laing as one of the Attornies of Quinten Crawford Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 35-36
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 105  
 

Registered to Quinton Crawford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.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] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 105  
 

Registered to Quinton Crawford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 86  
 

Registered to Quintin Crawford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot) 85(F) 110(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Francis Graham, attorney to Quintin Crawford.

 
T 71/33 826-831
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 118  
 

Registered to Quintin Crawford.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to Honorable James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot) 84(F) 103(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Laing as lessee and purchaser from Quintin Crawford.

 
T 71/34 155v-156
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 126  
 

Registered to Honorable James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 111  
 

Registered to Honorable James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot) 81(F) 102(M)  
[Name] Gayle Estate  
 

James Laing, owner.

 
T 71/35 252
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 111  
 

Registered to Hon. James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 126  
 

Registered to Hon. James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot) 82(F) 96(M)  
[Name] Gayle Estate  
 

James Laing, owner [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/36 129
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 124  
 

Registered to Hon. James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to Hon. James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 114  
 

Registered to estate of James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot) 96(F) 112(M)  
[Name] Gayle Estate  
 

James Macdonald and Colin Mackenzie, attornies to Henry Davidson and Aeneas Barkly, owners [increase by births and purchase].

 
T 71/37 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 299(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to James McDonald and Colin McKenzie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 294(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to Davidson, Barclay and Co..

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot) 153(F) 142(M)  
[Name] Gayle Estate  
 

James Macdonald, Colin McKenzie and Alexander Geddes, attorneys to Henry Davidson and Aeneas Barkly surviving co-partners of Henry Davidson, deceased, as owners of Gayle Estate [increase by purchase of enslaved people from Hampshire Estate, St Thomas in the Vale, given in by Thomas Legal Yates and George William McKay as trustees under the will of Hector McKay, deceased].

 
T 71/42 114-116
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 289(Tot)  
[Name] Gayle  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to Davidson, Barclay, and Co..

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Gayle  
[Size] 943  
 

Registered to Davidson, Barklay, & Co..

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.