Windsor Castle

Estate Details


Associated People (7)

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
1799 [SY] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner
- 1799 [EY] → Owner
1815 [EA] - 1826 [EY] → Owner
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner

Estate Information (21)

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1799
[Name] Windsor Castle Estate  
[Crop] coffee, sugar, rum  
 

Estate of Samuel Douglas deceased. Account filed by Colin Chines.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 184
1800
[Name] Windsor Castle Estate  
[Crop] coffee, sugar, rum, jobbing  
 

Estate of Samuel Douglas Esq deceased. Account filed by Alexander Henderson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 86
1801
[Name] Windsor Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum and hire of enslaved people  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Alexander Anderson, late overseer of Windsor Castle Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 170
1803
[Name] Windsor Castle Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estate of Samuel Douglas Esq deceased. Account filed by Dennis Brian as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 14
1804
[Name] Windsor Castle Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and jobbing  
 

Belonging to the late Samuel Douglas, Esq. Account filed in the name of Dennis O"Brien, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 195
1807
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Crop] Slave labour  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Samuel Douglas Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Newton as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 101
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to Samuel Douglas deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.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] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to Samuel Douglas deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor-Castle  
[Stock] 155  
 

Registered to John Crosman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.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] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to John Crosman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 544(Tot) 276(F) 268(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Crosman, owner. Assumed to include Change Hill, Decoy Pen, Windsor Castle and Hazard. May also include Decoy Estate and Smallfield.

 
T 71/33 1144-1159
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
 

Registered to John Crosman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 653(Tot) 330(F) 323(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Crosman [also John Crossman], owner [increase by births and acquisition]. Assumed to include Change Hill, Smallfield, Decoy Pen, Windsor Castle, Hazard and Decoy Estate.

 
T 71/34 70-73
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
 

Registered to John Crosman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 78  
 

Registered to John Crossman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 660(Tot) 330(F) 330(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James C Pownall and James Lawes, attornies to John Crosman, owner [increase by births and acquisition]. Assumed to include Decoy Pen, Windsor Castle, Hazard, Smallfield and Decoy Estate.

 
T 71/35 380-384
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to John Crossman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 336(Tot)  
[Name] Decoy Estate & Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 194  
 

Registered to estate of John Crosman.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 658(Tot) 335(F) 323(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Henry Cox, attorney to the estate of John Crosman, deceased [increase by births and acquisition]. Assumed to include Decoy Pen, Windsor Castle, Hazard, Smallfield and Decoy Estate.

 
T 71/36 387-390
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 322(Tot)  
[Name] Decoy Estate and Windsor Castle  
[Stock] 138  
 

Registered to Maria J. Pope.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 606(Tot) 316(F) 290(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

The Honble. Henry Cox, attorney to the estate of John Crossman, deceased [decrease by deaths]. Assumed to include Decoy Pen, Windsor Castle, Hazard, Smallfield and Decoy Estate.

 
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