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Springfield

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

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
1797 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Joint owner
Hamilton Lithgow or Lythgow

Shown as 'Lithgow & McKinlay deceased' 1797-1799, and almost certainly referring to Hamilton Lithgow, who died in 1793.

1797 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Joint owner
Patrick McKinlay

Shown as 'Lithgow & McKinlay deceased' 1797-1799, and referring either Patrick McKinlay or Thomas McKinlay.

1797 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
David Dick
1797 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
James Fairlie of Bellfield
1797 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Peter Ballantine
1799 [EA] - 1810 [LA] → Previous owner
Joseph Orr

Notes

There appear to be two Springfields intertwined here, a coffee estate and a sugar plantation

Estate Information (17)

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1781
[Name] Springfield  
[Crop] Plantains, corn and "hire of enslaved people"  
 

The real estate of the late Doctor Charles Macqueen deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 213
1797
[Name] Springfield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, plantains  
 

Belonging to Lythgow, McKinlay, dec. Account given by Messrs Ballantine Dick & Co. Acting as mortgagees in possession. Account filed by William Wright, overseer. Hampton Court Estate and Springfield Plantation filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 141
1797
[Name] Springfield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, plantain  
 

Property of Lythgow and McKinlay deceased on the order of Messrs Ballantine, Fairlie and Co acting as mortgagee in possession of the estate. Account filed by William Wright as overseer for the period 01/01/1796 to 31/12/1798. Hampton Court Estate and Springfield Plantation filed together. Crops not differentiated by plantation or by year.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 155
1798
[Name] Springfield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, plantain  
 

Property of Lythgow and McKinlay deceased on the order of Messrs Ballantine, Fairlie and Co acting as mortgagee in possession of the estate. Account filed by William Wright as overseer for the period 01/01/1796 to 31/12/1798. Hampton Court Estate and Springfield Plantation filed together. Crops not differentiated by plantation or by year.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 155
1799
[Name] Springfield Pen  
[Crop] Coffee, Pasturage, plantains  
 

Account filed by John Noyes overseer. Belonging to the Heirs of the late Joseph Orr Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 109
1799
[Name] Springfield Pen  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Account filed by John Noyes as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 13
1799
[Name] Springfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, plantain  
 

Property of Lythgow and McKinlay deceased on the order of Messrs Ballantine, Dick and Co acting as mortgagee in possession of the estate. Account filed by William Wright as overseer for the period 01/01/1799 to 31/12/1799. Hampton Court and Springfield estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by plantation or by year.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 164
1800
[Name] Springfield Plantation  
[Crop] coffee, pasturage, rents  
 

Property of Joseph Orr Esq. Account filed by Samuel Johnson for the period 01/01/1800 to 30/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 131
1800
[Name] Springfield Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Ownership not recorded. Account filed by William Wright as overseer. Hampton Court and Springfield Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 12-13
1800
[Name] Springfield Plantation  
 

Account filed by William Wright as overseer. Hampton Court and Springfield Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 13
1801
[Name] Springfield Plantation  
[Crop] Coffee, plantains, pasturage, rent from property  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of Joseph Orr Esq. Account filed by Lewis Dujardin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 90
1802
[Name] Springfield Plantation  
[Crop] coffee, plantains, pasturage, rents  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Joseph Orr Esq deceased. Account filed by Lewis Dujardin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 54
1803
[Name] Springfield Plantation  
[Crop] coffee, plantains, pasturage, rents  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Joseph Orr Esq deceased. Account filed by Lewis Dujardin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 54
1806
[Name] Springfield Pen  
[Crop] Coffee, livestock, house rents, pasturage and plantains  
 

Account filed by Thomas Murphy.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 15
1807
[Name] Springfield  
[Crop] Coffee, house rents, pasturage and plantains  
 

Account filed by Alexander Scott.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 108
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
[Name] Springfield  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to heirs of Joseph Orr.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
[Name] Springfield  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Joseph Orr deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1811.