Dawkins Caymanas

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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
1815 [SY] - 1839 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
1753 [EA] - 1754 [LA] → Owner
1760 [EA] - 1815 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Attorney

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£3,646 1S 9D

Estate Information (52)

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1753
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cotton  
 

Estate belonging to James Dawkins Junior Esq. Account filed by John Shickle. The estates of James Dawkins Junior were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 155
1754
[Name] WD - Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton and livestock  
 

Estate of James Dawkins Esq. Account filed by John Shickle as one of the attorneys to James Dawkins Esq. The estates of James Dawkins including: RD, HD, ID, Magotty and Caymanas were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 179
1760
[Name] Caymanas Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cattle, horses  
 

Estates belonging to Henry Dawkins Esquire in Jamaica. Account filed by Charles Bosnell Esquire, one of the attorneys to the Honourable Henry Dawkins Esquire. Windsor plantation, Old Plantation, Friendship Plantation, Sutton Plantation, Parnassus Planatation, Caymanas Plantation, Magotty Plantation, Salt Ponds all filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 157
1761
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cattle, horses  
 

Estates belonging to Henry Dawkins Esquire in Jamaica. Account filed by Charles Bosnell Esquire, one of the attorneys to Henry Dawkins Esquire. Windsor, Old Plantation, Friendship, Sutton, Parnassus, Caymanas, Magotty, Salt Ponds all filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 195
1762
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, horses  
 

Estates belonging to Henry Dawkins Esquire in Jamaica. Account filed by Charles Bosnell Esquire, one of the attorneys to Henry Dawkins Esquire. Windsor, Old Plantation, Friendship, Sutton, Parnassus, Caymanas, Trodways, Salt Ponds all filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 195
1765
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Charles Boswell as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 128
1766
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Charles Boswell as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 128
1767
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by William Fulton as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 167
1767
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Charles Boswell as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 21
1768
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Charles Boswell as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 118
1770
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by William Abercromby as bookeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 2
1771
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John McKay as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 163
1772
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John McKay as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 3
1773
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Swright as overseer and wharfinger on the instruction of John and George Gordon Esqs. As attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 76
1774
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Gustavus MacFarguhar as overseer. George Gordon Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 272
1775
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Gustavus MacFarguhar as overseer. George Gordon Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 282
1776
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Henry Dawkins Esq. Account filed by William Cruden as overseer at Salt Pond. George Gordon Esq. as attorney. Salt Pond, Tredways, Caymanas and Bogg all listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 68-9
1778
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Monarch on the order of George Gordon Esq. as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 51
1779
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by the Hon. John Shickle as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 147
1780
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Thomas Raymond as clerk to Henry Dawkins Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 198
1781
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Thomas Raymond as clerk to Henry Dawkins.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 148
1783
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Thomas Raymond as attorney to Henry Dawkins Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 9
1794
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Scott as his accountant. Tredway and Caymanas estates filed together. Crops listed separately. Which parish is not stated

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 60
1795
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, wood  
 

Account filed by Thomas Fellows accomptant. Tredway and Caymanas estates filed together. Only crops listed separately. Which parish is not stated

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 65-66
1798
[Name] Dawkins-Caymanas  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Catherine as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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] Dawkins Caymanas Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Alexander Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 144
1799
[Name] Dawkins Caymanas Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Alexander Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 197
1800
[Name] Dawkins Caymanas Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Alexander Macleod as overseer

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 74
1803
[Name] Dawkins Caymanus Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Alex Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 137
1804
[Name] Dawkins Caymanas Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed in the name of A McLeod (status not given).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 204
1807
[Name] Caymanas  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins Esq. Account filed by Alexander Macleod as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 103-104
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 298(Tot)  
[Name] Dawkins Caymanas  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to Henry Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Dawkins' Caymanas  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to Henry Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot) 151(F) 137(M)  
[Name] Caymanas and Salt Pond Pen  
 

In the possession of William Shand and Francis Graham attornies to James Dawkins Esquire.

 
T71/1 622-632
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Dawkins' Caymanas  
[Stock] 123  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Caymanas  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot) 108(F) 76(M)  
[Name] Caymanas Estate  
 

In the possession of Hon. William Shand and Malcolm McLeod as attorneys to James Dawkins Esquire.

 
T71/2 72-73
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Caymanas  
[Stock] 17  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Caymanas  
[Stock] 136  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot) 107(F) 77(M)  
[Name] Caymanas Estate  
 

In the possession of Hon. Wm Shand and Malcolm McLeod as attorneys to James Dawkins.

 
T71/3 13
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Caymanas  
[Stock] 132  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Caymanas  
[Stock] 110  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Hewitt as attorney to the trustees of James Dawkins Esq.

 
T71/5 401
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
[Name] Caymanas  
[Stock] 132  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot)  
[Name] Caymanas  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al01.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Caymanas  
[Stock] 30  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29cathjohn.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Hewitt Esquire as attorney to the trustees of James Dawkins Esquire.

 
T71/8 27
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Caymanas  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Caymanas  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas James Bernard and Walter George Steward as attornies of Rt Honble Lord Viscount Downe Sir George Francis Hampson Bart and Sir William Henry Cooper, Trustees of James Dawkins.

 
T71/11 73
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Caymanas  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] D. Caymanas  
[Size] 798  
 

Registered to Hon. Thomas James Bernard and Walter George Stewart.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Catherin.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.