Konigsberg Castle

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Associated People (20)

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
1758 [SY] - 02/03/1777 [ED] → Owner
02/03/1777 [SD] - 1790 [LA] → Annuitant
02/03/1777 [SD] - → Legatee
02/03/1777 [SD] - → Legatee
02/03/1777 [SD] - → Legatee
02/03/1777 [SD] - → Legatee
02/03/1777 [SD] - 1790 [EY] → Trust beneficiary
02/03/1777 [SD] - 1790 [EY] → Trust beneficiary
02/03/1777 [SD] - 1790 [EY] → Trust beneficiary
02/03/1777 [SD] - 13/05/1779 [ED] → Trust beneficiary
- 1817 [EY] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner

It is possible that the Peter Digges La Touche of 1817 and of 1834 were different men.

1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney

Given as A.L. Finlayson

1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Joint owner
1834 [EA] - → Joint owner

Associated Claims (3)

£3,086 17S 6D
£185 18S 3D
£750 1S 11D

Estate Information (38)

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1756
[Name] Konigsburgh  
 

300 acres in St George granted to Dr John Nembhard in March 1758. Later called Konigsburgh by him.

 
Caribbeana Vol. 4 pp. 1-12
1777
[Name] Konigsberg  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Nembhard Esq. deceased. Account filed by George Seaton as one of the executors to John Nembhard Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 132
1777
[Name] Konigsburgh  
 

Konigsburgh bequeathed to John Frederick Nembhard, Ballard Beckford Nembhard, William Ellis Nembhard and Edward Lynch Nembhard in the will of their father Dr John Nembhard who died in 1777.

 
Caribbeana Vol. 4 pp. 1-12
1778
[Name] Konigsberg  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Nembhard Esq. deceased. Account filed by George Seaton as one of the executors to John Nembhard Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 133
1779
[Name] Konigsberg  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Nembhard Esq. deceased. Account filed by Samuel Richens.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 163-4
1779
[Name] Konigsberg  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Nembhard Esq. deceased. Account filed by Samuel Richens as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 213
1781
[Name] Konigsberg  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Nembhard Esq. deceased. Account filed by Samuel Richens as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 152
1782
[Name] Konigsburgh Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of the Heirs of the late John Nembard Esquire. Account filed by Samuel Rickens, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 148
1790
[Name] Konigsburgh  
 

Konigsburgh sold by the widow and children of Dr John Nembhard by a decree of the Court of Chancery.

 
Caribbeana Vol. 4 pp. 1-12
1796
[Name] Koningsberg Est  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  
 

Belonging to John James Bigges La Touche, Esq. Account filed by John Thomson, overseer.

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

Owner not given. Account filed by John Thomson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 171
1798
[Name] Koningsburgh  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Konningsberg Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Thomson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 36
1800
[Name] Konningsberg Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Thomson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 191
1801
[Name] Konigsberg Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by John Thomson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 204
1803
[Name] Koningsberg Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Walker as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 121
1807
[Name] Koningsberg  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old iron and old copper  
 

Property of Messer Lynch and La Touch. Account presented by Thomas Walker as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 213
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 493(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg etc.  
[Stock] 856  
 

Registered to Lynch & Latouche.

 
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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 307(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg  
[Stock] 156  
 

Registered to Lynch & La Touche.

 
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] 302(Tot) 159(F) 143(M)  
[Name] Konigsberg  
 

Patrick Lynch as joint owner with James Digges La Touche and Peter Digges La Touche.

 
T 71/33 780-789
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 302(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg  
[Stock] 181  
 

Registered to Lynch & La Touche.

 
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] 381(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouch.

 
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] 295(Tot) 156(F) 139(M)  
[Name] Konigsberg  
 

James T B Watt, attorney to Mrs Amy Anne Lynch, James D La Touch and Peter Digges La Touch.

 
T 71/34 244v-245v
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 372(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg  
[Stock] 185  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouch.

 
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] 337(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg  
[Stock] 201  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouche.

 
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] 260(Tot) 138(F) 122(M)  
[Name] Konigsberg Estate  
 

A L Finlayson and James MacDonald, attornies of Lynch and Latouche [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/35 278-280
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 318(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg  
[Stock] 186  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouche.

 
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] 313(Tot)  
[Name] Konningsberg  
[Stock] 226  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouche.

 
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] 247(Tot) 130(F) 117(M)  
[Name] Konningsberg Estate  
 

James Macdonald and Honble James Laing attornies to Lynch and Latouche [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/36 292-294
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 307(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg  
[Stock] 219  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouche.

 
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] 297(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouche.

 
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] 277(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg  
[Stock] 193  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouche.

 
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] 214(Tot) 112(F) 102(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Macdonald attorney to Messrs Lynch and Latouche [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouche.

 
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] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsburgh  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouche.

 
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] 203(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsberg Estate  
 

James Macdonald, attorney for Konigsberg Estate [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/42 112
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 259(Tot)  
[Name] Koningsburgh  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouche.

 
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] Konningsberg  
[Size] 2050  
 

Registered to Lynch and Latouch.

 
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.