Moore's

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Associated People (2)

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] - 1779 [LA] → Previous owner

William Beckford was deceased but the documents still referred to the estate as the property of William Beckford Esq. deceased.

1781 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Owner

Shown as William Beckford. This estate was one of the Clarendon estates of Alderman William Beckford and the registrations after 1782 refer to his son.


Estate Information (25)

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1754
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The several Estates of William Beckford, under the direction of Richard Lewing & John Mclead. Account filed by Richard Lewing, one of the attorneys. Retreat, Rock River, Malmsey Valley, Danks, Karys's Cralie, Moores, Harbour Head, Stanton, Esher, Guamaboa, Seven Mile Walk, Stanton Estates. Crops are for all the estates combined.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 3
1770
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Richard Lewing Esq. as one of the attorneys to the late William Beckford Esq. and since his decease one of the attorneys to the executor of the said William Beckford.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 30
1771
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased and under the care and direction of the Hon. Rose Herring May and Richard Lewing Esq. Account filed by John Mackenzie as overseer on Books Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 187
1772
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased and under the care and direction of the Hon. Rose Herring May and Richard Lewing Esq. Account filed by John Mackenzie as overseer on Bodles (sp) Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 19
1773
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by the Hon. Rose Herring as attorney to the executors and guardians appointed by the will of the late William Beckford Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 176
1774
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Mackenzie as overseer on Bodles (sp) Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 244
1775
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Walter Welch as overseer on Bodles (sp) Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 288
1776
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Produce sent to Old Harbour Bay. Account filed by John Mackenzie of St. Dorothy.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 94
1778
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Kittson as overseer on Bodles Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 55
1779
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
 

The estate was owned by William Thomas Beckford.

 
Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.148
1779
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Kittson as overseer on Bodles Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 106
1780
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Thomas Kittson as overseer on Bodles Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 110
1782
[Name] Moors Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Beckford Esquire. Account filed by Thomas Kittson, overseer at Bodles Penn and keeper of stores. Rock River, Danks, Kays, Moors, and Retreat Estates ("produce of Clarendon Estates sent from Bodles Penn to Old Harbour Bay") all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 188-189
1783
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Kittson as overseer on Bodles Pen in St. Dorothy and keeper of the stores there for the recption of sugar and rum produced from the estate of the late William Beckford Esquire in the parish of Clarendon. Danks, Moores, Retreat, Kayes and Rock River listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 115-6
1793
[Name] Moor Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by George Davidson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Retreat Estate, Keys's Estate, Moor Estate, and Bodles Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 90
1794
[Name] Moor Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by George Davidson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Retreat Estate, Keys's Estate, Moor Estate, and Bodles Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 54
1795
[Name] Moor Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by George Davidson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Kays's Estate, Retreat Estate and Moor Estate filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 147
1797
[Name] Moor Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by William Burden. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Kays's Estate, Retreat Estate and Moor Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 30
1798
[Name] Moore's  
[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.
1798
[Name] Moores Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John McLarty Property of William Beckford Esquire.

 
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1799
[Name] Moor Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq of Great Britain. Account filed by John McLarty. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Kays's Estate, Retreat Estate and Moor Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 102-103
1800
[Name] Moor Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by John McPherson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Kays's Estate, Retreat Estate and Moor Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 130
1801
[Name] Moors  
[Crop] sugar and rum (with the disposal of the same from Bogles Penn)  
 

The Clarendon estates of William Beckford. Account filed by John McPherson. Bogles Penn, Danks, Rock River, Kays and Moors filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 114
1803
[Name] Moor  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates of William Beckford Esq. Account filed by John McPherson. Danks's Estate, Rock River Estate, Kays's Estate, Retreat Estate and Moor Estate filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 159-160
1807
[Name] Moores  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. of Great Britain with the disposal of the same from Bodles Penn Crop. Account filed by Matthew Hill. The estates of Danks, Rock River, Kays, Moores and Retreat were filed together.

 
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