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Camberwell

Jamaica | St George

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
1781 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Previous owner
Matthew Shuttler
1790 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Overseer
James Beatt
1811 [EA] - → Owner
William Douglas
1815 [EA] - → Previous owner
William Douglas
1817 [EA] - → Owner
William Griffiths
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
Henry Bond
1819 [EA] - → Previous owner
William Griffiths

Notes

Most of the enslaved people on this estate were sold to Gibraltar c. 1819.

Estate Information (18)

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1781
[Name] Camberwell Penn  
[Crop] Hire of enslaved people, cattle, Sheep, goats, ginger  
 

Property of the Deceased Matthew Shuttler. Account filed by Robert McMickan Junior, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 67-68
1782
[Name] Camberwell Plantation  
[Crop] Rental of enslaved people, ginger, cattle  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of Matthew Shutler deceased. Account filed by John Casens (sp?).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 185
1783
[Name] Camberwell  
[Crop] Ginger, cattle and hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Matthew Shuttle deceased. Account filed by Thomas Goudie, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 26
1785
[Name] Camberwell Plantation  
[Crop] account of rents and hire received  
 

Property of the heirs of Matthew Shussler Esq. deceased; account filed by Thomas Gowdie.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 75-76
1786
[Name] Camberwell Plantation  
[Crop] ginger, enslaved hire  
 

Property of the heirs of Matthew Shutter deceased; account filed by Edward Prendergast, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 139
1787
[Name] Camberwell Plantation  
[Crop] cattle, enslaved hire  
 

Property of the heirs of Matthew Shutter or Shuttler; account filed by William Ross, executor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 118
1787
[Name] Camberwell  
[Crop] jobbing, ginger, one horse and one mule  
 

The property of the heirs of Malthus Stittler [?] deceased; account filed by William Newton as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 189
1788
[Name] Camberwell Estate  
[Crop] Jobbing, coffee  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Matthew Struther deceased. Account filed by William Newton as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 408
1789
[Name] Camberwell  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Matthew Shuller [?] deceased. Account filed by William Newton as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 442
1790
[Name] Caberwell  
[Crop] Jobbing, coffee  
 

Account filed by James Beatt.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 377 [f.188]
1791
[Name] Camberwell Estate  
[Crop] Jobbing", coffee  
 

Account filed by James Beatt.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 375 [f.182]
1792
[Name] Camberwell Penn  
[Crop] Slave labour, some coffee  
 

The property of the heirs of Mathew Shutler deceased. Account filed by James Beattie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 186
1793
[Name] Camberwell  
[Crop] Coffee, horses, sheep  
 

Account filed by Jacob Shuttler as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 55
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Camberwell  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to William Douglas.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812and.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Camberwell  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to executors of William Douglas.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15geor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot) 48(F) 55(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Henry Bond as Attorney to William Griffiths.

 
T71/158 372
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
[Name] Camberwell  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to William Griffiths deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Name] Camberwell  
 

Registered to heirs of William Griffiths.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.