Holland 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
- 1771 [EY] → Owner

John Kennion sold the Holland estate to Simon Taylor in 1771.

1771 [EA] - 1813 [LA] → Owner

Simon Taylor's letters show he paid £100,000 for the Holland estate, which he bought from John Kennion (q.v., under John Kennion of Liverpool) in 1771 together with Moro Penn (reportedly part of the Hordley estate) with 400 'Negroes'. In the probate inventory of 1813-4, the 610 enslaved people on Holland were valued at £50,120 currency.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary

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£11,009 0S 3D

Estate Information (24)

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1791
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of Simon Taylor Esquire Esquire. Account filed by John Taylor attorney for the plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 353 [f.171]
1798
[Name] Holland  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with a cattle mill, a windmill and two watermills 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 610(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 362  
 

Registered to Hon. Simon Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 657(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 140  
 

Registered to Sir Simon Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1811.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 617(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 302  
 

Registered to estate of Sir S. R. B. Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1815.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 596(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 267  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1817.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 598(Tot) 306(F) 292(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Shand Esq as attorney to George Watson Taylor Esq and Mrs Watson Taylor.

 
T71/145 782-795
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 601(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 51  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1819.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 600(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1820.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 600(Tot) 300(F) 300(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Honourable William Shand as attorney of George Watson Taylor Esq and Mrs Watson Taylor.

 
T71/146 439-441
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 604(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 216  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1821.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 599(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 166  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1823.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 603(Tot) 307(F) 296(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Kenneth Macpherson as attorney of George Watson Taylor Esq abd Mrs Watson Taylor.

 
T71/147 347-350
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 609(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 191  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1825.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 620(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 210  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1826.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 623(Tot) 322(F) 301(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas McCornock as attorney of George Watson Taylor Esq and Mrs Watson Taylor.

 
T71/148 339-341
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 631(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 115  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1827.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 631(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 147  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1828.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 634(Tot) 326(F) 308(M)  
[Name] Holland Estate  
 

In the possession of Thomas McCornock as attorney of George Watson Taylor Esq and Mrs Watson Taylor.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 612(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 140  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1830
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 621(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 108  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1831.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 645(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to George Watson Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1832.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 641(Tot) 336(F) 305(M)  
[Name] Holland Estate  
 

In the possession of Thomas McCornock as attorney to George Watson Taylor Esq and Mrs Watson Taylor.

 
T71/150 499
1839
[Name] Holland and Burrowfield  
[Size] 3525  
 

Registered to George W. Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thoseast.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1839.

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