Baulk

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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
1770 [EA] - 1771 [LA] → Other

Planter overseer.

1771 [EA] - 1772 [LA] → Previous owner
1771 [EA] - 1772 [LA] → Trustee
1780 [EA] - → Other

Planter overseer.

1781 [EA] - → Other

Planter overseer.

1789 [EA] - → Previous owner
1789 [EA] - → Overseer
1809 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - → Guardian
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Joint owner
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
1826 [EA] - → Joint owner
1826 [EA] - → Joint owner
1827 [EA] - → Other
1827 [EA] - → Other

Estate Information (35)

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1770
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Jonathan Haughton Esq. deceased. Account filed by Edward Taylor planter overseer on the instruction of Neil Malcolm Esq. trustee for the said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 215
1771
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Jonathan Haughton Esq. deceased. Account filed by Edward Taylor planter overseer on the instruction of Neil Malcolm Esq. trustee for the said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 61
1779
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Miss Elizabeth Haughton and Mrs Rebecca Wallen. Account filed by John Henderson as overseer on the instruction of George Malcolm Esq. as their attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 178
1780
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Henderson as planter overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 109
1781
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by David Colvin as planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 110
1782
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by David Colvin as planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 164
1784
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, copper  
 

Property of the Heirs of Jonathan Haughton deceased. Account filed by Patrick McFarlane, overseer and planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 89
1789
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Thomas Bainbridge. J. Haughton deceased. Account filed by Duncan McFarlane as overseer. Accounts filed for Year 1789 to 06/10/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 405-406 f.200
1796
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Patterson Esq, dec and Mrs Rebecca Walker. Account given by James Patterson and George Brissett Esqs, attornies. Account filed by George Sandelands, overseer.

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

Belonging to the heirs of Mrs Elizabeth Patterson deceased and Mrs Rebecca Waller on the orders of James [ . . . ] and George Brissett Esq.s attornies for the estate. Account filed by George Sunderland as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 1
1798
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of John Patterson Esq deceased on the orders of Richard Dickson and George Brissett Esq.s attornies for the estate. Account filed by George Sunderland as overseer for the period 31/07/1797 to 31/07/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 186
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
 

Registered in Hanover to Paterson and Walter with 157 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 24.
1799
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1803
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of a minor and Rebecca Wallen. Account filed by George Sandilands as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 192-193
1807
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar, rum and sale of enslaved people  
 

Property of the heirs of John Paterson Esq. deceased and Mrs. Rebecca Waller under the direction of William Brown Esq. Account presented by William Ogilvy as overseer. Entry includes income for the sale of a "mulatto" enslaved woman and her "quadroon" daughter, noted as "to pay the taxes".

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 158-159
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to heirs of John Patterson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to John Patterson deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 119  
 

Registered to heirs of John Paterson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 101  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Paterson et al.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot) 71(F) 61(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Rebecca Waller as to one third part thereof owner.

 
T71/190 720-722
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot) 71(F) 61(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Rhodes James as to two third parts thereof as guardian of Anna Mary Patterson an infant owner.

 
T71/190 680-682
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 108  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Paterson and others.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 105  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Paterson and others.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Rose Palmer Esquire and Mrs Rebecca Walker as owners.

 
T71/191 509-510
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Paterson and others.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 95  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Paterson et al.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot) 73(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Baulk Estate  
 

In the possession of John Rose Palmer as two thirds thereof owner and the representatives of Mrs Rebecca Walter dec'd as the third part thereof owner.

 
T71/192 390-391
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 101  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Paterson et al.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to heirs of J. Patterson & al.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 74(F) 52(M)  
[Name] Baulk Estate  
 

In the possession of John Rose Palmer as to two third parts thereof owner and Alexander Campbell and John Carr Evans as to one part thereof owner formerly given in by the representatives of Mrs Rebecca Waller as owner of the one third part thereof.

 
T71/193 209-210
1826
[Name] Baulk Estate  
 

In the possession of The representatives of Mrs Rebecca Waller dec'd as to one third part thereof owner formerly given conjointly with John Rose Palmer as to two thirds part thereof owner. "By sale of the one third part thereof as owner to Alexander Campbell and John Carr Evans" since 1823.

 
T71/193 205-209
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 13  
 

Registered to William R. and S. Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Baulk  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to William R. and S. Mitchell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Name] Baulk  
 

126 enslaved people were registered by James Lawson as attorney to W. R. & S. Mitchell & Co. as purchased from Baulk estate but now on Kew estate in Hanover, Jamaica. Baulk was registered to the Mitchells in the Almanac of 1828 so they presumably bought the land too.

 
T71/196 134-136
1829
[Name] Baulk Estate  
 

In the possession of Alexander Campbell as to one third part thereof owner. Previous registration in 1826 was for 126 enslaved people; all since sold.

 
T71/194 101-102