Peckham

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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
1741 [EA] - 1743 [LA] → Previous owner
1809 [EA] - → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Owner

Shown variously as Hon. William Bryan or simply William Bryan

1823 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Previous owner
1826 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1826 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1828 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
1828 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - → Attorney

Estate Information (19)

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1741
[Name] Peckham  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Filed for 1st May - 25th Dec 1741. Belonging to the Honourable Samuel Smith Esq. deceased and under the care and direction of the Honourable John Nairn and Thomas Fearon Junior Esqs. Account filed by the Honourable John Nairn Esq. one of the executors of Samuel Smith Esq. deceased. The estates of Mears and Peckham were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 137-138
1743
[Name] Peckham  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Mrs. Mary Smith and the heirs of the Honourable Samuel Smith Esq. under the care and direction of John Navin and Thomas Fearon Junior Esqs. acting executors of the said Samuel Smith. Account filed by Robert Corsan as overseer. The estates of Mears and Peckham were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 84
1798
[Name] Peckham  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Clarendon as a sugar estate with a watermill 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] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Peckham  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to Samuel Smith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Clarend.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Peckham  
[Stock] 74  
 

Registered to Samuels Smith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cla.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Name] Peckham  
 

Registered to Samuel Smith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot) 143(F) 128(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Bryan as owner. Presumed to be a composite return for enslaved people on Bryan's Pen, New Ground and Peckham estates although it's not clear if William Bryan owned all three as early as 1817.

 
T71/57 855-864
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Peckham  
[Stock] 63  
 

Registered to Samuel Smith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot)  
[Name] Peckham  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to Hon. William Bryan.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Peckham  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to William Bryan.

 
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] 133(Tot)  
[Name] Peckham  
[Stock] 72  
 

Registered to William Bryan.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Peckham  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to Hon. William Bryan deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 415(Tot) 288(F) 187(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Bryan as owner. A composite return for enslaved people on Bryan's Pen, New Ground and Peckham estates.

 
T71/59 67-68
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot) 61(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Peckham  
 

In the possession of Francis Smith as the attorney of Mrssrs Wm, R. and S. Mitchell, mortgagees in possession. Last returned in Clarendon by or for William Bryan.

 
T71/60 299
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Peckham  
 

Registered to William Bryan deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot) 61(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Peckham  
 

In the possession of Francis Smith as the attorney of Mrssrs Wm, R. and S. Mitchell, mortgagees in possession. Last returned in Clarendon by or for William Bryan.

 
T71/60 299
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Peckham  
 

Registered to William Bryan deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Peckham  
 

Registered to W. R. and S. Mitchell and Co..

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29clarvere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 3(Tot) 3(F)  
[Name] Peckham  
 

In the possession of Francis Smith as attorney to Messrs. Wm. Rowland & Samuel Mitchell. 60 male enslaved and 58 female enslaved transferred to Borough Bridge Estate in St Ann's. Previous totals (1826) recorded as 60 men and 61 women.

 
T71/62 321