Leogan Estate

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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
1833 [SY] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
1774 [EA] - → Owner
1794 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Attorney
1794 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Attorney
1794 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Attorney
1794 [EA] - → Previous owner
1796 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

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£2,722 8S 1D

Estate Information (32)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Leogane/ Leogan  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 61  
 

Listed as belonging to James Findlater with 2 men bearing arms and 5 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 60 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1794
[Name] Logan sugar Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Gibson Esq deceased under the care of James Wedderburn, Robert Kenyon and John Hatton Esq. Account filed by James EastWood as oveseer for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 172-173
1795
[Name] Leogan sugar Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Gibson Esq deceased under the care of James Wedderburn and John Hatton Esq. Account filed by John George as oveseer for the period 01/01/1795 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 25
1796
[Name] Leogane Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, interest, old copper  
 

Belonging to Joseph Buck [=Birch?] Esq. Account given by James Wedderburh, Esq. Account filed by John George, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Leogan? Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, fat steers, cows  
 

Belonging to Joseph Birch Esq. Account given by James Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by John George, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 104
1799
[Name] Leogane Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old brass and lead, cattle, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of the Joseph Buck [Birch?] Esq of the City of Liverpool on the order of John and William Perry and Henry Haywood Esq.s attorneys for the plantation. Account filed by John [Whitte.] as overseer for the period 21/01/1799 to 19/05/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 137
1799
[Name] Leogan  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] Legane  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with Joseph Birch as the proprietor.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 26. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1801
[Name] Leogan Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Joseph Back (Birch?) Esq of the town of Liverpool in the Kingdom of Great Britain, account given in by order of John and William Perry Esquires attornies for said plantation. Account filed by James H K Copsey as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 145
1803
[Name] Logan Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Joseph Birch Esq. Account filed by Henry K Copsey as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 81
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
[Name] Leogane  
[Stock] 60  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 67  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 202  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot) 95(F) 85(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Haldane Scott as attorney to Joseph Birch Esquire the owner.

 
T71/202 36-40
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 178  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 178  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Alexander Meedie as Attorney to Joseph Birch, the owner, formerly enrolled by Robert H Scott, the attry.

 
T71/205 117-118
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 178  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Allen as Attorney to Joseph Birch Esq, the owner.

 
T71/211 203-204
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 193  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 340  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to Joseph Birch, the owner.

 
T71/214 341-342
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 188  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 49  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to Joseph Birch.

 
T71/216 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Leogane  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 182  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan Estate  
 

In the possession of Lawrence Hislop as Attorney to Sir Joseph Birch, Bart.

 
T71/222 289
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot)  
[Name] Leogan  
[Stock] 53  
 

Registered to Joseph Birch.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Leogan  
[Size] 601  
 

Registered to Sir Thomas B. Birch Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.