Oxford 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
1783 [SY] - 1796 [EY] → Owner
1755 [EA] - → Not known
1755 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Attorney
1755 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Owner
1767 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Book-keeper
1771 [EA] - → Not known
1778 [EA] - → Overseer
1779 [EA] - → Overseer
1780 [EA] - → Attorney
1781 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Overseer
1787 [EA] - → Book-keeper
1787 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Overseer
1787 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Previous owner
1797 [EA] - → Overseer
1797 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Overseer
1797 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Previous owner
1803 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Overseer
1807 [EA] - → Overseer
1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Receiver
1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Receiver
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Other
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1826 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1829 [EA] - → Agent
1832 [EA] - → Not known
1832 [EA] - → Not known
1834 [EA] - → Owner

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£3,059 18S 8D

Estate Information (65)

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1755
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Thomas Dimes and John King (latter is overseer, but Dimes swore the oath).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 12
1755
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 34
1756
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 34
1757
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 35
1758
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 35
1759
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 35
1760
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 36
1761
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 36
1762
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 36
1763
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 37
1764
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 37
1765
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 38
1766
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 38
1767
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by Charles Convert as bookeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 88
1768
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by Charles Convert.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 123
1769
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by Charles Convert as clerk on the instruction of John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 193
1770
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by Charles Convert as bookeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 21
1771
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by Thomas Burnett.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 210
1772
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Produce shipped and consigned to Robert Symes Esq. in London. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 202
1773
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Produce shipped and consigned to Robert Symes Esq. in London. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 203
1774
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Produce shipped and consigned to Robert Symes Esq. in London. Account filed by John King as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 220
1778
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by Thomas Good as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 69
1779
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Robert Symes Esq. Account filed by John Good as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 159
1780
[Name] Oxford Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No Ownerhsip detail given. Account filed by John Symes of Kingston Gentlman attorney for Robert Symes Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 29
1781
[Name] Oxford Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by James Alexander, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 140
1782
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by James Alexander as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 168
1784
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Alexander as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 5-6
1786
[Name] Oxford Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Alexander, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 95
1787
[Name] Oxford Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Robert Symes Esq deceased; account filed by John McDowall, bookkeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 111
1787
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Rob. Symes Esq deceased; account filed by Walter Pollock as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 215
1788
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Walter Pollack as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 83-84
1790
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Walter Pollock as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 253-254
1791
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Walter Pollock as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 328
1792
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Walter Pollock as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 117-118
1793
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Walter Pollock as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 83
1797
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Atkin as overseer for the period 01/01/1797 to 28/08/1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 35-36
1797
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of William Leigh Symes Esq deceased. Account filed by Thomas Irwin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 4
1798
[Name] Oxford Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Irwin. The property of the Heir or Heirs of William Leigh Symes Esq deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 44
1798
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with a watermill and a cattle millin 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] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of William Leigh Symes Esq deceased. Account filed by Thomas Irwin.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 10
1800
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of William Leigh Symes Esq deceased. Account filed by Thomas Irwin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 200-201
1801
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the Heir or Heirs of William Leigh Symes Esq deceased. Account filed by Thomas Irwin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 63-64
1803
[Name] Oxford Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of the heirs of William Leigh Symes Esq deceased. Account filed by Robert Innes as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 201
1804
[Name] Oxford Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heir or heirs of William Leigh Symes, Esq. Account filed in the name of Robert Innes, overseer to said account.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 96
1807
[Name] Oxford  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Property of the heir or heirs of William Leigh Lymes Esq. deceased. Account filed by Alexander McKay as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 11-12
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to R. L. Sims [presumably = W.L. Symes or William Leigh Symes] deceased.

 
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] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 182  
 

Registered to Hon. John Shand and Joseph Green, receiver.

 
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] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 200  
 

Registered to Hon. John Shand and Joseph Green, receiver.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot) 102(F) 94(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Joseph Green, attorney of Henry Swann, owner.

 
T 71/33 563-569
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to Henry Swann.

 
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] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 150  
 

Registered to Henry Swann.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot) 96(F) 91(M)  
[Name] Oxford Estate  
 

Joseph Green, attorney of Henry Swann, owner.

 
T 71/34 116v-117
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 141  
 

Registered to Henry Swann.

 
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] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 115  
 

Registered to Henry Swan.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot) 92(F) 87(M)  
[Name] Oxford Estate  
 

Joseph Green, attorney of Henry Swann, owner.

 
T 71/35 194-195
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 120  
 

Registered to Henry Swann.

 
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] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 131  
 

Registered to Milligan, Robertson, and Co.

 
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.
1826
[Name] Oxford  
 

Checkland notes that in 1826 when John Gladstone's brother-in-law Colin Robertson was in financial distress, after the collapse of Milligan, Robertson, 'among Colin's obligations was an annuity on Oxford estate of £400 p.a. in favour of the Reverend T.R. Malthus.'

 
S.G. Checkland, Gladstone - a family biography, 1764-1851, p. 197
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot) 88(F) 87(M)  
[Name] Oxford Estate  
 

James Macdonald and Honble James Laing, attornies to the mortgagee.

 
T 71/36 291-292
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 31  
 

Registered to Milligan, Robertson, and Co.

 
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] 163(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 112  
 

Registered to Milligan, Robertson & Co..

 
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] 166(Tot) 81(F) 85(M)  
[Name] Oxford Estate  
 

James MacDonald, attorney for Oxford Estate by his agent John Brown.

 
T 71/39 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to Barkly and Deffell.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Oxford Estate  
 

James MacDonald, attorney for Oxford Estate.

 
T 71/42 82
1839
[Name] Oxford  
[Size] 950  
 

Registered to John Gladstone.

 
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.