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Watermount

Jamaica | St Mary

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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
1789 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Previous owner
Francis Matthe of Water Mount

Notes

Not identified in slave registers or almanacs.

Estate Information (9)

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1761
[Name] Watermount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Rober Dillon, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 202
1789
[Name] Water Mount  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by David Duncomb one of the executors and trustees of Francis Matthe Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 289 f.143
1790
[Name] Water Mounts Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by David Duncomb one of the executors and trustees of Francis Mathe Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 260
1791
[Name] Water Mount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by David Duncomb one of the executors and trustees of the estate of Francis Matthe Esquire deceased. Accounts filed for 1790 and 1791.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 231 [f.110]
1792
[Name] Water Mount  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by David Drummond one of the executors and trustees of Francis Matthe Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 142
1798
[Name] Watermount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, corn, cattle  
 

Account filed by Ja.s Green for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798. Watermount and Richmond estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 273
1798
[Name] Watermount  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary 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.
1799
[Name] Watermount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Joseph Green as overseer. Watermount and Richmond estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 22
1800
[Name] Watermount Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Joseph Green as overseer. Watermount and Richmond estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 157