Springfield

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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
1809 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Owner

Estate Information (10)

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1799
[Name] Springfield  
[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.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Cascade & Springd.  
 

Registered in Hanover to Odell and Gilpin with 178 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. 25.
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] Springfield  
[Stock] 127  
 

Registered to William Gilpin.

 
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] 137(Tot)  
[Name] Springfield  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to William Gilpin.

 
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] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Springfield  
[Stock] 110  
 

Registered to William Gilpin.

 
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] 114(Tot) 56(F) 58(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Gilpin as attorney to William Gilpin of London.

 
T71/190 330-332
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Name] Springfield  
[Stock] 105  
 

Registered to William Gilpin.

 
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.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot)  
[Name] Springfield  
[Stock] 90  
 

Registered to Joseph F. Barham.

 
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] 113(Tot)  
[Name] Springfield  
 

Registered to Josaph F. Barham. No number of stock, page torn.

 
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] 113(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Colquhoun Grant and John Blyth as attornies to Joseph Foster Barham Esquire. Note this estate has been correctly identified based on the listing in 1820 of 58 men and 56 women being registered in 1817.

 
T71/191 42-43

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