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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
1799 [EA] - → Previous owner
1810 [EA] - 1833 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Agent
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Agent
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

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£4,987 0S 4D

Estate Information (33)

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1763
[Name] Welcome  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Account filed by Simon Clarke Junior.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 52
1763
[Name] Wellcome  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Hanover in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a cattle mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1796
[Name] Welcome Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers  
 

Belonging to Robert Keer (Keen?) Esq. Account filed by Robert Shand, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1798
[Name] Welcome Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Gilbert Burne as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 277
1799
[Name] Welcome  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover 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
[Name] Welcome Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Gilbert Burn overseer on Mango and Welcome plantation. The property of the late Robert Kerr Esqure deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 228
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
 

Registered in Hanover to the estate of Robert Kerr with 162 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 24.
1800
[Name] Welcome  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Robert Kerr Esq deceased. Account filed by James McNoullas overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 206-207
1801
[Name] Welcome Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, ginger, coffee, cocoa, piemento  
 

The property of the late Robert Kerr Esq deceased. Account filed by James McNicol as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 84
1803
[Name] Wellcome  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, wharfage, hire of enslaved people  
 

Property of Robert Kerr Esq deceased. Account filed by James Hammond overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 26
1807
[Name] Welcome  
[Crop] sugar, rum, sale of a road certificate, hire of enslaved people and horse shoeing  
 

Under the care and direction of or in the possession of James Hammond as overseer or manager of the estate. Account presented by James Hammond.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 183-184
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 496(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome & Haddington  
[Stock] 327  
 

Registered to Hibbert & Taylor.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 495(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome etc.  
[Stock] 109  
 

Registered to Hibbert and Taylor. Assumed to include Haddington.

 
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] 288(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 177  
 

Registered to Hibbert & Taylors.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 279(Tot) 140(F) 139(M)  
[Name] Welcome Estate  
 

In the possession of Henry Parry as agent to Messrs. Taylor and Simpson attorneys to John Vincent Purrier, the owner, settled on Welcome Estate.

 
T71/190 743-749
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 175  
 

Registered to John Vincent Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 276(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 187  
 

Registered to John Vincent Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome Estate  
 

In the possession of George Hibbert Oates as agent to Messrs. Taylor and Simpson attorneys to John Vincent Purrier the owner.

 
T71/191 506-507
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 189  
 

Registered to John Vincent Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to John V. Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome Estate  
 

In the possession of George Hibbert Oates agent for Simpson & Taylor attorneys for John Vincent Purrier, the owner.

 
T71/192 399-400
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 181  
 

Registered to John Vincent Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 259(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 173  
 

Registered to John V. Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome Estate  
 

In the possession of James Simpson as attorney to John Vincent Purrier the owner.

 
T71/193 287-288
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 46  
 

Registered to John V. Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 57  
 

Registered to John V. Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 46  
 

Registered to John V. Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome Estate  
 

In the possession of George Hibbert Oates as agent of John V. Purrier.

 
T71/197 22
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to John V. Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to John V. Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome  
[Stock] 90  
 

Registered to John V. Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 259(Tot)  
[Name] Welcome Estate  
 

In the possession of John Vincent Purrier junior as attorney for John Vincent Purrier senior owner.

 
T71/199 168
1839
[Name] Welcome  
[Size] 1200  
 

Registered to Hon. John V. Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.