UCL

Seaton

Jamaica | St Mary

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
1811 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Not known
Grace Smellie (née Bogle)

Probably owner or tenant-for-life under the will of her husband John Smellie (q.v.) who died in 1810.

1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Previous owner
John Smellie
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
John Smellie
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
William Lancaster Whitfield
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
William Thomas Barnes
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
George William Hamilton

Notes

This estate does not appear in the compensation records after 1823 and the almanacs after 1828. It may have been abandoned or absorbed by Platfield.

Estate Information (14)

What is this?

1807
[Name] Seaton  
[Crop] Pimento and coffee  
 

Account filed by Alexander McCredie as overseer. Filed for 1806-1807.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 140
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Platfield etc.  
[Stock] 115  
 

Registered to Grace Smellie. Assumed to include Seaton.

 
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] 81(Tot)  
[Name] Seaton  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to Grace Smellie.

 
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] 83(Tot)  
[Name] Seaton  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Grace Smellie.

 
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] 83(Tot) 43(F) 40(M)  
[Name] Seaton  
 

Robert Smellie, William Whitefield [also William Lancaster Whitfield] and William Thomas Barns [also William Thomas Barnes] as attorneys to the executors of John Smellie, deceased.

 
T 71/33 1121-1124
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
[Name] Seaton  
 

Registered to Grace Smellie.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Platfield and Seaton  
[Stock] 156  
 

Registered to Grace Smellie.

 
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] 263(Tot) 148(F) 114(M)  
[Name] Seaton and Platfield  
 

Robert Smellie, William Lancaster Whitefield and W T Barnes, attorneys to the executors of John Smellie, deceased.

 
T 71/34 226-226v
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Platfield and Seaton  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to Grace Smellie.

 
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] 266(Tot) 150(F) 116(M)  
[Name] Seaton Plantation and Platfield Plantation  
 

W L Whitefield and George William Hamilton, attornies to the executors of John Smellie, deceased.

 
T 71/35 504-505
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
[Name] Seaton  
 

Registered to Grace Smellie.

 
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.
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 284(Tot)  
[Name] Platsfield etc.  
[Stock] 206  
 

Registered to Grace Smellie. Assumed to include Seaton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot)  
[Name] Platfield etc.  
[Stock] 231  
 

Registered to Grace Smellie. Assumed to include Seaton.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot)  
[Name] Platfield, etc.  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to Grace Smellie. Assumed to include Seaton. Number of enslaved people and stock unclear.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.