UCL

The Wilderness

Jamaica | Manchester

Estate Details

Associated People (10)

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
1829 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Annuitant
Ann Burt Owen
1817 [EA] - → Receiver
Thomas Phillpotts
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
William Kellett Hewitt senior
1820 [EA] - → Executor
Henry Rhodes Morgan
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver
John William Spencer Griffith
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Other
David Samuda senior or junior

Party to the suit of David Samuda v William Kellett Hewitt

1829 [EA] - 1829 [EY] → Owner
Edward Owen
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Edward Owen
1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Executor
Thomas Mason
1832 [EA] - → Executor
William Turner

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica Manchester 222 (The Wilderness)
£1,419 10S 7D

Estate Information (19)

What is this?

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot) 29(F) 48(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Philipots as receiver to the heirs of William Hewitt.

 
T71/65 203-204
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Stock] 17  
 

Registered to the heirs of William Hewitt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to the estate of William Hewitt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot) 29(F) 47(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of H R Morgan as executor for the Wilderness Plantation appointed by the court of chancery to William K Hewit.

 
T71/66 149
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
 

Registered to the estate of William Hewitt. Stock number unclear as page is torn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to the estate of William Hewitt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to the estate of William Hewitt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot) 28(F) 47(M)  
[Name] The Wilderness Plantation  
 

In the possession of John Griffiths Esquire as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery in the Cause David Samuda vs William Kellett Hewitt.

 
T71/67 111
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
 

Registered to the estate of William K. Hewitt.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24manc.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to William K. Hewitt deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot) 30(F) 46(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Griffith as Receiver appointed by the High Court of Chancery in the Cause of David Samuda v.s William Kellett Hewitt.

 
T71/68 206-207
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to John Griffith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
 

Registered to the estate of David Samuda.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29manc.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Edward Owen, owner. Bound with the slave registers for St Mary rather than Manchester.

 
T 71/39 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to Edward Owen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831manc.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Edward Owen deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32manc.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot) 30(F) 45(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Turner and Thomas Mason as Executors of Edward Owen deceased.

 
T71/73 298
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Stock] 48  
 

Registered to Edward Owen.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Manch.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Wilderness  
[Size] 445  
 

Registered to Thomas Mason.

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