Southfields

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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
1786 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Trustee

Co-trustee of the mortgagees-in-possession

1786 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Trustee

Co-trustee with John Deffell of the mortgagees-in-possession

1815 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner

Given simply as 'Humphrey Ewing' in 1815, but we believe this to be the same man as Humphrey Ewing Maclae, taking the name of Maclae after the death of his father Walter Ewing Maclae [born Ewing] in 1814.

1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

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£3,039 12S 0D

Estate Information (29)

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1786
[Name] Southfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lewis McLenan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 133
1786
[Name] Southfield Estate  
[Crop] [List of mortgaged accounts] sugar, rum  
 

William Mitchell and John Deffell as trustees of the mortgagees in possession. Account filed by Lewis Knight Esquire of the parish of St Catherine their attorney. Accounts filed for 1786 [exact dates not clear].

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 88-96
1787
[Name] Southfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lachlan McKinnon, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 107-108
1787
[Name] Southfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Lachnan MacKennon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 202-203
1787
[Name] Southfield Estate  
[Crop] [List of mortgaged accounts] hire of enslaved people, pasturage, sugar  
 

William Mitchell and John Deffell as trustees of the mortgagees in possession. Account filed by Lewis Knight Esquire of the parish of St Catherine. Accounts filed for 1787 [exact dates not clear].

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 75-81 f.38-41
1791
[Name] Southfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Eugene Sullivan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 194-195 [f.92]
1792
[Name] Southfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Eugene Sullivan as overseer (for the period following Dr Roses departure for England). Accounts filed for 24/07/1792 to 31/12/1792.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 64
1798
[Name] Southfield  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Ann as a sugar estate with a cattlemill 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.
1807
[Name] Southfield  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Laing as receiver.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 34
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to Humphrey Ewing.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15ann.htm. The 1816 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1815, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to Humphry Ewing McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_02.htm. The 1817 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1816, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 123  
 

Registered to Humphry Ewing McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al06.htm. The 1818 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1817, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot) 104(F) 109(M)  
[Name] Southfield  
 

In the possession of Alexander Kidston as attorney to H Ewing Maclae Esq.

 
T 71/43 768-774
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 116  
 

Registered to Humphrey Ewing McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
 

In the possession of Isaac Higgin and Anthony Bury as attornies to Humphry Ewing MacLae, owner.

 
T 71/44 444-445
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 145  
 

Registered to Humphrey E. McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 145  
 

Registered to Humphrey E. McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Isaac Higgin and Anthony Bury as attorneys to Humphrey Ewing MacLae, owner.

 
T 71/45 530-531
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to Humphrey E. McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 121  
 

Registered to Humphrey E. McLae.

 
Jamaica Alamanc (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Isaac Higgin and Anthony Bury as attorneys to Humphry Ewing McLae, owner.

 
T 71/46 550-552
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Humphrey E. McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Humphrey E. McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield Estate  
 

In the possession of Humphry E McLae as owner of Southfield Estate [statement by Charles Smith his attorney].

 
T 71/48 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
 

Registered to Humphrey E. McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Humphrey E. McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield Estate  
 

In the possession of Humphry Ewing Maclae as owner of Southfield Estate [statement by Charles Smith].

 
T 71/50 494
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Humphrey E. McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Southfield  
[Size] 1173  
 

Registered to Humphrey E. McLae.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.