Caen Wood  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
1798 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Attorney

Caen Wood was shown as 'under the management and direction of the honourble Henry Shirley Esq.' in 1798.

1801 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Owner
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Not known
1815 [EA] - → Not known
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Receiver
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1819 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Joint owner
1819 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Joint owner
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1839 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Previous owner

Shown against John Oldham dec. in 1839.


Associated Claims (1)

£3,976 15S 9D

Estate Information (30)

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1798
[Name] Cane Wood Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Charles Harris overseer. Under the management and direction of the honourble Henry Shirley Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 52
1798
[Name] Canewood  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St George 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] Canewood Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Charles Harris as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 214
1800
[Name] Canewood Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Henry Shirley.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 86-87
1801
[Name] Caen Wood Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Tucker.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 193
1801
[Name] Canewood Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Henry Russell Esq, in the possession of the Rt Hon Henry Shirley Esq. Account filed by William Tucker as overseer and manager.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 186
1803
[Name] Caen Wood Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Tucker as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 119-120
1804
[Name] Caen Wood Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, old copper  
 

Owner not given. Account filed in the name of William Tucker, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 218
1807
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Peter Drummond.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 52-53
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to Henry Russell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11George.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] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 77  
 

Registered to Henry Russell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812and.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot)  
[Name] Caenwood  
[Stock] 78  
 

Registered to William E. Nembhard.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 104  
 

Registered to Benjamin Crossley, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot) 74(F) 74(M)  
[Name] Caen Wood Estate  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Crossley Esquire in the parish of St George, County of Surrey and Island of Jamaica as Receiver of Caen Wood Estate on the 28th day of June in the year of our Lord 1817 but who has since then departed hence and is now absent from this Island and which slaves are this twenty fourth day of September in the year of our Lord 1817 in the possession of Samuel Pryce, Philip Jaquet & Thomas Spicer Esquires of the Parish of Saint George as the Attorneys of the said Benajmin Crossley.

 
T71/158 182
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to J. Meek and J. Roe.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 312(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 144  
 

Registered to J. Meek and J. Roe.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 316(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood Estate  
 

In the possession of John Meek and John Roe Esquires as Owners. Increase of 172 enslaved people purchased from Belgar Plantation in St Thomas in the Vale, registered there last.

 
T71/159 209
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 313(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 115  
 

Registered to John Meek and J. Roe.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 315(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 155  
 

Registered to John Meek and J. Roe.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 313(Tot) 146(F) 167(M)  
[Name] Caenwood Estate  
 

In the possession of Joseph Green as Attorney to John Meek & John Roe Owners of Caenwood Estate.

 
T71/160 419
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 302(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 134  
 

Registered to John Meek and J. Roe.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 303(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 39  
 

Registered to John Meek and J. Roe.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 294(Tot)  
[Name] Caenswood Estate  
 

In the possession of Ebenezer Peat as Attorney to John Roe Owner of Caenswoord Estate.

 
T71/161 165
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to John Roe.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29portgeorg.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot) 129(F) 129(M)  
[Name] Caenwood Estate  
 

In the possession of William Lambie Esquire as Attorney of Thomas Roe Esquire Owner.

 
T71/162 256
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 88  
 

Registered to John Roe.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 249(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 87  
 

Registered to John Roe.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Stock] 102  
 

Registered to John Roe.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Caenwood Estate  
 

In the possession of John Roe Esquire as Owner.

 
T71/163 343
1839
[Name] Caen Wood  
[Size] 1022  
 

Registered to John Oldham dec.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40George.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.