Kew Sugar 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
1764 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Owner
1799 [EA] - → Owner
1809 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Executor
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Previous owner
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
1823 [EA] - → Joint owner
1826 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1826 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

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£4,801 14S 9D

Estate Information (46)

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1763
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Hanover in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a cattle mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1764
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by John Wedderburn Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 167
1765
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by William Bryce as overseer on the direction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 48
1766
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by William Bryce as overseer on the direction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 167
1767
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by William Bryce as overseer on the direction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 48
1768
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by William Bryce as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 103
1769
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by John Brown as overseer on the direction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 158
1770
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by John Brown as overseer on the direction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 224
1771
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by John Brown as overseer on the direction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 72
1772
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by John Duthie as overseer on the direction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 39
1773
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by John Duthie as overseer on the direction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 71
1774
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by John Duthie as overseer on the instruction of George Scott and William Brown Esqs. as attorneys to the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 243
1775
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by John Archie as bookeeper on the instruction of George Scott and William Brown Esqs. as attorneys to the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 286
1778
[Name] Kew Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esquire, delivered by order of George Scott & William Brown Esquire, attorneys. Account filed by James Hewitt, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 103
1779
[Name] Kew Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Philip Dehany Esquire, given in by order of George Scott & William Brown Esquires attorneys. Account filed by James Hewitt overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 85
1780
[Name] Kew Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Philip Dehany Esquire, given in by order of George Scott & William Brown Esquires attorneys. Account filed by James Hewitt overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 85-86
1781
[Name] Kew Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esquire, delivered by order of George Scott & William Brown Esquire, attorneys. Account filed by James Hewitt, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 105
1782
[Name] Kew Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esquire on the orders of George Scott and William Brown Esquires attornies for the estate. Account filed by Alexander Graham as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 167-168 f.84
1783
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Philip Dehany Esq. Account filed by Alexander Graham as overseer on the instuction of William Brown as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 153
1785
[Name] Kew Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Philip Dehany, accoubnt delivered by James Kerr, attorney; account filed by Alexander Graham overseer of Kew Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 47
1786
[Name] Kew Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Philip Dehany Esq; account filed by Alexander Graham, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 73
1787
[Name] Kew estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

William Peddie, overseer by order of Samuel Mure and William Dunlop Esqs, attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 8
1799
[Name] Kew  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover 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.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 279(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
 

Registered in Hanover to William Brown senior with 279 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 23.
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 292(Tot)  
[Name] Kew E. and Aurora  
[Stock] 290  
 

Registered to William Brown.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.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] 284(Tot)  
[Name] Kew etc.  
[Stock] 152  
 

Registered to William Brown. Assumed to include Aurora.

 
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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 106  
 

Registered to Hon. William Brown.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 116  
 

Registered to Thomas James Brown.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot) 97(F) 92(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In possession of Thomas James Brown as executor of William Brown Esquire deceased.

 
T71/190 78-81
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 200  
 

Registered to Thomas James Brown.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 181  
 

Registered to Thomas James Brown.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas James Brown as executor for William Brown deceased.

 
T71/191 41-42
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 78  
 

Registered to Thomas James Brown.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot) 98(F) 87(M)  
[Name] Kew Estate  
 

In the possession of William Kirkaldy as attorney to the heirs of Thomas James Brown dec'd.

 
T71/192 83-85
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 105  
 

Registered to Thomas J. Brown deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 134  
 

Registered to estate of T. J. Brown.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot) 90(F) 81(M)  
[Name] Kew Estate  
 

In the possession of The Honourable Frances Smith as attorney to W. R. & S. Mitchell Esquires mortgagees. By transfer: "Formerly in the possession of William Kirkaldy as attorney to the heirs of Thomas James Brown dec'd and since transferred by mortgage to W.R & S Mitchell Esquires London".

 
T71/193 253-258
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 34  
 

Registered to T. R. and S. Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to T. R. and S. Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to William R. and S. Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot) 164(F) 131(M)  
[Name] Kew Estate  
 

In the possession of James Lawson as attorney to W R & S Mitchell & co. 126 enslaved people "By purchase from the Baulk estate. Registered last by Alexander Campbell as past owner"

 
T71/196 134-136
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 291(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to William R. and S. Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Kew  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to William R. and S. Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 270(Tot) 151(F) 119(M)  
[Name] Kerr (sp?) Estate  
 

In the possession of John Harvey as agent to W. R. H. Mitchell.

 
T71/199 57
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Kew Estate  
[Stock] 28  
 

Registered to W. R. and S. Mitchells.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Kew  
[Size] 1423  
 

Registered to W. R. and S. Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.