Associated People (16) |
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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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1760 [EA] - 1766 [LA] → Previous owner
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1764 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Joint owner
Joint heiress with her sister Elizabeth Tharp under the will of her brother Thomas Partridge jun. (c. 1764) |
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1765 [EA] - → Joint owner
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1768 [EA] - 1769 [LA] → Annuitant
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1768 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Joint owner
Joint owner by virtue of his marriage to Elizabeth Ann[e] Partridge. |
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1770 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
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1772 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Williams, inferred to have been either the same man as Thomas Williams jun. or his son, reportedly took half of Potosi from John Tharp IV c. 1772 (possibly in part-exchange for the Good Hope, Lansquenet and Wales estates), bought the other half from Elizabeth and William Blake (subject to mortgage from Tharp) and then sold on the whole estate to his brother-in-law Samuel Horlock in 1773. |
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1774 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Apparently mortgaged through much of this period. |
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1789 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
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1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
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1826 [EA] - → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
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1832 [EA] - → Attorney
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£3,421 12S 9D
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Estate Information (45) |
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1760
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of the heir of Thomas Partidge deceased. Account filed by William Raser (sp?), overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 185
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1761
[Name] Potosi
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Thomas Patridge deceased. Account filed by John Franklin as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 48
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1762
[Name] Potosi
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Thomas Patridge deceased. Account filed by John Franklin as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 49
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1763
[Name] Potosi
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Thomas Patridge deceased. Account filed by John Franklin as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 55
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1765
[Name] Potosi
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Thomas Patridge deceased. Account filed by John Marten Butt, Doctor of Physick and one of the executors and trustess.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 55
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1766
[Name] Potosi
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the heirs of Thomas Patridge deceased. Account filed by John Marten Butt, Doctor of Physick and one of the executors and trustess.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 55
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1770
[Name] Potosi
A deed in the Tharp Papers records the mortgage to John Tharp IV of half of Potosi and the whole of Dean's Valley Waterworks by William Blake and his wife Elizabeth Anne dated 02/02/1770.
R/55/7/122/(j)/1
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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Crop] Sugar [Stock] 265 Listed as belonging to Samuel Hurlock with 7 men bearing arms and 11 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 152 hogsheads of sugar.
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
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1787
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Samuel Horlock Esq; account filed by John Evans as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 194
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1789
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Samuel Horlock Esquire on the orders of John Tharp Esquire mortgagee in possession. Account filed by John French of the parish of St James as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 265
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1789
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Samuel Horlock Esquire by John Tharp Esquire mortgagee in possession. Account filed by William Frensham planter overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 351 f.173
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1790
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Samuel Horlock Esquire. Account filed by Duncan Munro as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 87-88
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1792
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Samuel Horlock. Account filed by Henry Hough as attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 130-131
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1793
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Dougald McNab as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 106
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1794
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Thomas Jump attorney for the estate for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 147
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1795
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of Samuel Horlock Esq. Account filed by Donald McNab as overseer for the period 01/01/1795 to 31/12/1795.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 249-250
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1797
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, cane plants Account filed by Richard Homes, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 155
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1799
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by James Lawson for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 79-80
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1799
[Name] Potosi
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St James 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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1800
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by James Lawson for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 199
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1800
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by James Lawson.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 203
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1804
[Name] Potosi Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum, firebricks, steers Owner not given. Account filed by Ralph Parkinson who has the care of the estate (status not given).
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 133
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1807
[Name] Potose
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Account filed by Joseph Vernon.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 88-89
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 22 Registered to Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 19 Registered to Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.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] 235(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 101 Registered to Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.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] 243(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 137 Registered to Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.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] 243(Tot) 120(F) 123(M)
[Name] Potosi Estate In the possession of William Allen as attorney to Richard Watt mortgagee.
T71/202 281-286
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 149 Registered to Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.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] 236(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 155 Registered to Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.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] 239(Tot)
[Name] Potosi Estate In the possession of William Allen as Attorney to Richard Watt, Mortgagee of Potosi Estate.
T71/207 52-53
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 155 Registered to Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.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] 228(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 114 Registered to Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.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] 229(Tot)
[Name] Potosi Estate In the possession of William Allen as Attorney to Richard Watt, mortgagee of Potosi Estate.
T71/211 213-214
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 91 Registered to Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.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] 233(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 10 Registered to Samuel Hurlock deceased.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.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] 233(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William King as Attorney to Richard Watt the Mortgagee.
T71/215 1
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 10 Registered to Samuel Hurlock deceased.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.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] 229(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 8 Registered to Samuel Hurlock deceased.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.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] 228(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of John Appleton as Attorney to Richard Watt.
T71/221 unpaginated
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 3 Registered to heirs of Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot)
[Name] Potosi [Stock] 121 Registered to heirs of Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William King as Attorney to Francis Watt and others.
T71/222 391
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 203(Tot)
[Name] Potosi Registered to heirs of Samuel Hurlock.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1839
[Name] Potosi
[Size] 1850 Registered to Francis Watt.
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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:
'Potosi [ Jamaica | St James ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/1923 [accessed 19th April 2024].
