Goshen 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
1792 [EA] - → Owner

Tentative association.

1809 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Joint owner
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Not known
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Joint owner
1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Joint owner

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£7,238 14S 0D

Estate Information (23)

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1798
[Name] Goshen  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Ann as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 411(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen estate and Pen  
[Stock] 548  
 

Registered to Jacques Laing & Ewing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Ann.htm. The 1811 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 405(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen and penn  
[Stock] 656  
 

Registered to Jaques / Laing & Co..

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1810, hence the earlier transcription date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 540(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
[Stock] 255  
 

Registered to Hon. James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15ann.htm. The 1816 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1815, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 532(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
[Stock] 234  
 

Registered to Jaques & Laing

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_02.htm. The 1817 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1816, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 512(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
[Stock] 287  
 

Registered to Jaques & Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al06.htm. The 1818 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1817, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 464(Tot) 219(F) 245(M)  
[Name] Goshen  
 

In the possession of Hay Hagart as attorney of James Laing the owner on Goshen Estate.

 
T71/43 723-737
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 459(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
[Stock] 268  
 

Registered to Honorable James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 460(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
[Stock] 248  
 

Registered to Hon. James Laing[? name torn ___g].

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 464(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Laing as owner.

 
T 71/44 378-380
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 445(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
[Stock] 220  
 

Registered to James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 431(Tot) 199(F) 213(M)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
 

In the possession of James Laing as owner of Goshen Estate [35 births, 66 deaths].

 
T 71/45 468-472
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
[Stock] 205  
 

Registered to Hon. James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 418(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
[Stock] 214  
 

Registered to Hon. James Laing.

 
Jamaica Alamanc (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 421(Tot) 194(F) 227(M)  
[Name] Goschen Estate  
 

In the possession of James Laing as owner of Goschen Estate [38 births and 48 deaths].

 
T 71/46 514-517
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 406(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
 

Registered to Hon. James Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 411(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
 

Registered to Malcolm Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 404(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
 

In the possession of James MacDonald and Colin MacKenzie as attorneys for Goshen Estate [29 births and 41 deaths].

 
T 71/48 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 470(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
 

Registered to Malcolm Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 454(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
 

Registered to Malcolm Laing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 456(Tot) 222(F) 234(M)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
 

In the possession of James Macdonald, Colin Mackenzie and Alexander Geddes as attorneys to and Eneas Barkly, surviving co-partners Henry Davidson, deceased, as owners of Goshen Estate [increase in enslaved people mainly by purchase and formerly registered by George Fletcher Coward ].

 
T 71/49 195-197 No total given for 1829, but increase given as 127 and decrease as 75]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 450(Tot)  
[Name] Goshen Estate  
 

Registered to Davidson and Barclay.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Goshen estate  
[Size] 1567  
 

Registered to Davidsons and Barkley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.