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Mount Alta

Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
1761 [EA] - 1761 [LA] → Previous owner
Anthony Langley Swymmer
1762 [EA] - 1762 [LA] → Previous owner
Isaac Gale of St Elizabeth

A single reference in 1762, possibly misleading, to the estate belonging to Isaac Gale deceased. Otherwise, the transmission of the estate appears to have been within the Swymmer family.

1771 [EA] - 1778 [LA] → Owner
Sir Thomas Champneys

Estate Information (12)

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1761
[Name] Mount Alto Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Disposed of by Zachary Bayly, attorney to the Executors of Anthony Langly Swymmer Esquire deceased. Account filed by Nicholas Garrigues, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 214
1762
[Name] Mount Alta  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Isaac Gale Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Fletcher as attorney to the heirs of Isaac Gale Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 10
1763
[Name] Mount Alta  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Nichola Garrigues Esq. as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 59
1764
[Name] Mount Alta  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Nichola Garrigues Esq. as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 121
1765
[Name] Mount Alta  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Nichola Garrigues Esq. as overseer. Under the care and attention the Hon. Zachary Bayley Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 156
1771
[Name] Mount Alta  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce disposed of by Bryan Edwards and Joseph Orr as attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 184
1772
[Name] Mount Alta  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce disposed of by Bryan Edwards and Joseph Orr as attorneys. Account filed by James Betty as planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 31
1773
[Name] Mount Alta  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce disposed of by Bryan Edwards and Joseph Orr as attorneys. Account filed by James Betty as planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 197
1774
[Name] Mount Alta  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce disposed of by Joseph Orr as attorney. Account filed by James Betty as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 264
1775
[Name] Mount Alta  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce shipped and sold by desire of Joseph Orr as attorney to Champneys. Account filed by Dennis Morris as one of the agents for the said estate. Mount Alta and Nutts River listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 20
1776
[Name] Mount Alta  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Produce shipped and sold by desire of Joseph Orr as attorney to Champneys. Account filed by James Betty as overseer and manager. Mount Alta and Nutts River listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 97
1778
[Name] Mount Alta  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Sir Thomas Champneys Bart. Account filed by John Jacques as one of the attorneys.

 
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